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As the April 1st deadline to closing the near ten-billion-dollar budget gap grows closer, Governor Cuomo remains both optimistic and on-the-offensive.
ALBANY --
The budget dance began in earnest on Tuesday when the Senate and Assembly each passed their versions of the state budget. Both houses restore money to education, but the Assembly's plan doubles the Senate's proposed restoration by relying on a millionaire's tax.
The Senate and the Governor have both declared they will not support a continuation of the surcharge on millionaires. Even so, after a leaders meeting on Wednesday to hammer out budget differences the leaders emerged with a sense of optimism.
Speaker Silver even hinted that the leaders could agree to a budget earlier than the April first deadline.
While the budget is top priority, Japan's nuclear crisis underscored the Governor's campaign promise to shut down the Indian Point nuclear facility north of New York City…
By week's end, The Governor's optimism on the state budget gave way to frustration with education advocates who have been critical of his 2.7% cut to schools..
Earlier in the week the Governor called on one of the groups most critical of his education cuts to make public their list of contributors. The Alliance for Quality Educationon released its list the next day – which included NYSUT, NYS United Teachers. In turn, the Alliance demanded Cuomo release the names of contributors to the Committee to Save NY, through a spokesman told the group that the Committee was an entity separate from the administration.
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