When Democratic Gov. Gray Davis was recalled a few years ago and replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, instead of galvanizing the state party, it revealed the cracks and fault lines up and down the state.
"It wasn't really Sanford's fault, " said former state Rep. Dan Cooper, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
It is no fault of the workers that the state has not funded the pensions properly, or that a banking crisis has caused the stockmarkets to underperform.
Mr. Beyer said he doesn't fault Mr. Cuomo for the state's storm response, but said better communication could have ended the gas shortage days earlier, and helped to quell some of the panic that gripped New Yorkers when the shortage didn't immediately subside.
If that happens, both the Finance Ministry and state enterprises would be at fault, for having failed to boost revenues and harness funds.
But that decision hit a legal roadblock when State Supreme Court Justice Johnny Baynes on Thursday found fault with the initial vote, saying the university didn't abide by a law requiring open meetings to be held on the decision.
Ed Balls, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and some others think the weak state of the economy is partly Mr Osborne's fault, or at least something he ought to have taken more account of in drawing up his original plan.
The General Medical Council is deciding whether an assistant state pathologist for Northern Ireland, Dr Michael Curtis, was at fault over baby David Briggs' post-mortem examination in October 2000.
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But, after he appealed, the state supreme court, in the course of its investigations, found fault with the form and procedure of three sets of evidence related to the case, and referred the case back to the court at Mehrabad Airport.
Yet, reports by the state Commission of Correction's Medical Review Board have found some level of fault with CMC in the nine inmate deaths.
Indeed, in the rural areas where acid violence is most common, the writ of the state is so weak, and misogyny so entrenched, that women come to believe their suffering is their fault.
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