Onondaga County, for example, is considering outsourcing
its public lawn mowing to contractors, giving the work to Syracuse or county residents, he said.
McLaughlin ousted an incumbent, Tim Gordon, through the campaign equivalents of trolling: McLaughlin aides trained cameras on Gordon at
public events and recorded his awkward and frustrated reactions, and McLaughlin heckled the assemblyman during a publicity stunt when Gordon
mowed the
lawn at a shuttered state park.