Paterson’s ‘Plan’ a Deficit Disaster, Says Townsend

(Sylvan Beach, Nov. 23, 2009) Assemblyman David Townsend (R,WF-Sylvan Beach) today offered some of his most stinging criticism yet of Governor David Paterson’s non-existent deficit-reduction legislation, calling on the unpopular state executive to submit a bill to the Assembly and Senate to reduce the $3.2 billion budget gap or save New York taxpayers money by sending the legislature home. Today’s session – in which the majority failed to introduce or pass any bills in both legislative houses – will cost the state an estimated $71,000. The governor, meanwhile, spent most of the day attending fund-raisers in Buffalo.

“Governor Paterson, start putting the tax-paying families of New York State first,” said Townsend. “Present the legislature with a bill to reduce your $3.2 billion budget deficit and stop playing politics with the people’s money. Every day that we wait it will cost the state more in future debt payments, taxes, and spending cuts. This is the legislature’s third consecutive week without the governor introducing a single piece of deficit-reduction legislation. New Yorkers are fed up. Governor Paterson, it’s time to put up or send the legislature home.”

Paterson’s ‘Plan’ a Deficit Disaster, Says Townsend

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