Dispatch: Do as the Governor Does
A friend who travels close to Governor David Paterson reports on Paterson’s belt-tightening itinerary:
After a day of meeting what is left of the Blue Collar in Western New York, Governor Paterson built up quite an appetite. So the question was: “Where does one dine after meeting with the rank-and-file in Niagara Falls?”
To that there could be only one answer: The Buffalo Chop House, located at 282 Franklin Street in downtown Buffalo, just 23 miles away.
In this time of fiscal constraint and belt tightening, all work and no play would make David a dull boy, and no one wants to be that. So if power and money should happen to fall in your lap, follow the governor’s example from yesterday; take a ride to contemplate, visit the Falls, hear what the common man has to say, and then head back to the Buffalo Chop House with a large group of friends around 8pm. You’ll be glad you did: They make a dynamite martini.
Let the others eat cake…
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Patterson said he’s open to cutting his $179,000 salary by 10%. By law, this can not be done. Not for at least two years before it would go into effect.
Meanwhile, Patterson has asked civil service employees to take a 3.2% pay cut. This can be done within a month.
Comment by Jay — March 5, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
It doesn’t matter where you’re comming from, when you stop in WNY, you have to stop in at the Chop House, it’s Buffalo’s real development at its finest!
Comment by Mr. Bumble — March 5, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
I won a couple of dollars at the casino in the Falls and had dinner that night at the Chop House. It was awesome!
Too bad I never won again.
Comment by Simon Magus — March 5, 2009 @ 9:09 pm
The BCH is thee place in town!!!
You can keep Niagara Falls.
The Buffalo Chop House is the Eight Wonder of the World!
Comment by Pomeroy — March 5, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
The Buffalo Chop House? You guys gotta be kiddin! I didn’t win any money at the casino and my boss didn’t get caught in a sex scandal leaving me in charge. How am I suppose to afford the Chop House?
Comment by Mary Ayoungin — March 5, 2009 @ 11:51 pm
Who’s kiddin who? For anyone who doesn’t know her: Mary’s husband may be her employer but he’s definitely not her boss. And if he ever did get caught in a scandal; “The Chop House” would take on a whole new meaning.
Tell that cheap skate to spend a little of that geld he hords; “Live a Little,” life’s not forever…
Comment by Simon Magus — March 6, 2009 @ 12:03 am
I go there seasonally – 4 times a year (Whoopie!)
Comment by Pomeroy — March 6, 2009 @ 12:06 am
I go there seasonally too!
Football Season, Hockey Season, Fishing Season, Hunting Season…
Comment by Twixt — March 6, 2009 @ 12:09 am
I was there when the Governor came in (6th Anniversary on Wednesday) and took over the place. He must have been talking about cutting back starting April 1st. The Buffalo Chop House is not the place to begin “Belt Tightening.”
Comment by Lancey Howard — March 6, 2009 @ 10:09 am
Thanks Simon, he’s taking me to the Chop House next week on Friday the 13th. (He doesn’t know how lucky he is!)(Chop Chop…)
ps. He wants to talk to you.
Comment by Mary Ayoungin — March 6, 2009 @ 10:16 am
Yeah, how awful of Paterson to spend money in a Buffalo business that employs Buffalo residents.
Comment by huh? — March 6, 2009 @ 5:57 pm