New York Vulnerable to Poaching in Recession

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By DANNY HAKIM and PATRICK McGEEHAN


When Pepsi executives came to Gov. David A. Paterson’s Manhattan offices in late October, they wanted to head off an expansion of bottle deposit requirements to noncarbonated drinks.

They left the meeting thinking the governor was sympathetic to the concerns of one of his state’s largest corporations and that the discussion would continue. But two weeks later, Mr. Paterson included the expanded deposit requirements in a deficit reduction plan; later, he proposed an 18 percent tax on nondiet sodas without giving the company a heads up.

Now Pepsi is weighing a searing response: moving the headquarters of the Pepsi Bottling Group and more than 1,000 jobs, from Somers, in Westchester County, to Connecticut, which has been dangling a roughly $30 million incentive package.

In the eyes of many executives and lobbyists, the handling of Pepsi exemplifies the kind of fumbled communications that have plagued the Paterson administration for months. But it also underscores New York’s growing vulnerability to cross-border poaching of businesses as states try to mitigate the ravages of recession, experts say.

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1. I thought it was a reference to deer.

The old-timers up heah say that whitetails were pretty scarce in the '30's.

[Lost in CT]

2. I don't agree with Pepsi's tactics but CT is next door with much lower taxes.

That said Patterson is an incompetent fool and needs to be primaried next year.

He never had any business being Governor and we need to be more careful in the future that we pick competent individuals for the Lieutenant Governor position.