| The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates. The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state. |
The Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, today accused the Democrats’ Cuomo/Duffy ticket today of attempting to balance the state budget on the backs of school children, teachers, and property tax payers.
Standing before the Rochester City Hall presided over by Mayor Robert Duffy, the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, Hawkins said that as Governor he would support working families in New York, rather than seeking to “tangle” with public employees and protect Wall Street and the wealthy as Andrew Cuomo and Robert Duffy have stated they would.
Hawkins, a member of the Teamsters union, said it was time for labor to realize that the Democrats are taking their support for granted without providing any help in return as over 800,000 workers have lost jobs and over 100,000 families have lost their homes to foreclosure in New York during the current Great Recession.
Hawkins said that Cuomo appears to be particularly targeting teachers with his open attacks on public employees, his promotion of charter schools as the new “civil rights movement,” and his support for undercutting funding for schools through proposals such as a state spending freeze and a property tax cap.
Hawkins stated:
We need stronger unions and more workers organized into unions in order to promote the interests of the vast majority of New Yorkers who live by their labor. We need a stronger and united labor movement to stand up to the power of Wall Street and the wealthy at the State Capitol. Cuomo is going in the opposite direction, threatening to cut pay and jobs for public employees and cut essential services to close the budget deficit while the Wall Street and the wealthy pay lower rates of state and local taxes than working people.
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