COFFEE ATTACKS SCHNEIDERMAN FOR HAVING PASSED: “VERY FEW” BILLS IN SENATE
Democratic Attorney General candidate Sean Coffey attacked his opponent, State Senator Erie Schneiderman on Tuesday for the latter’s lack of willingness to support a property tax cap and for his admission that he has passed “very few” bills during his Albany career, quoting the Senator’s own words. According to a Coffee press release, this former Navy officer is standing by his proposals “not to raise taxes and protect the fledging economic recovery in the state.”
Coffey also called on Senator Schneiderman to join him in supporting a local property tax cap as well as eliminating the ‘public corruption tax.’
Coffey said,
Meanwhile, the Coffey forces were zeroing in on a remark made by Schneiderman made at a debate hosted by Citizen’s Union on July 21. During that encounter, the Senator, according to that same Coffey release, admitted that he passed “very few” pieces of legislation during his decade in the legislature. On Tuesday morning, Sen. Schneiderman added that he was “proud to say that for ten years, they refused to pass any of my bills” during another debate.”
“I stand firmly with Attorney General Cuomo on tax policy, including his proposed property tax cap. I would welcome Sen. Schneiderman’s support. As New Yorkers face the greatest recession in a generation, now is not the time to raise taxes on New Yorkers. Doing so would only undercut President Obama’s economic recovery program and kill off job creation. So we need to cut taxes. But we also need to cut the waste in Albany. Perhaps the biggest threat to New York’s fragile economic recovery are the politicians in Albany who can’t seem to pass a balanced budget or effectively root out public corruption.”
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