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Says Real Debate Is Between Paladino/Cuomo Austerity Plan and Hawkins’ Green New Deal
At a news conference outside Carl Paladino‘s Buffalo office Friday, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for New York Governor, challenged his Republican opponent to debate him – and to insist that there be a series of debates open to all the gubernatorial candidates.
Hawkins also challenged Paladino’s claim to be an outsider that will clean up Albany. “Paladino just another rich guy who has been milking the government for years while buying politicians left and right, and now he thinks he can buy his way into the Governor’s mansion,” said Hawkins.
During the Republican primary, Paladino hired someone to run after Rick Lazio in a chicken suit because Lazio was ducking debates. “Let’s see what Paladino about thinks about open debate and vetting candidates now that he is the Republican nominee,” Hawkins said
“A debate with just Paladino and Cuomo debate would just be an argument over how to cut spending, attack public employee unions, and cap property taxes. The real choice in this election is between my progressive tax reforms to fund a Green New Deal of full employment, clean energy, and fully funded schools and the conservative platforms of Paladino and Cuomo who offer variations on the same theme: a rich folks‘ agenda of making working people pay for the deficit caused by tax cuts and corporate welfare for the free-loading rich,” Hawkins said.
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