andrew cuomo's urban agenda

8/8/2019 Andrew Cuomo's Urban Agenda

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THE NEW NY AGENDA

T

he people o New York deserve agovernment that works, or a change not a government paralyzed by

partisan politics and plagued by ethicalscandals.

We love New York and are willing to fghtor the undamental reorms necessaryto restore competence and integrityin government and regain the publicsconfdence.

We are Democrats, Republicans andIndependents. But we are New Yorkersfrst, oremost and always.

Today, I join with my ellow New Yorkers toactively support Andrew Cuomos New NYAgenda. I pledge to vote in the upcomingelections, to urge my local elected ofcialsto support this Agenda, and to organize andmobilize my community in Novemberandnext yearto make a New NY a reality.

1. Clean Up Albany. We must restore honor and integrity to government, with tough newethics standards, expanded disclosure requirements, independent investigators to rootout and punish corruption, and an overhaul o campaign fnance laws. We must removelegislative redistricting rom partisan elected politicians and place it in the hands o anindependent commission that works only or the people. And we must hold a constitutionalconvention A Peoples Convention to rewrite the Constitution and make these changesimmediately because we cannot wait any longer or the state legislature to act.

2. Get Our Fiscal House in Order.We must get our States fscal house in order by immediately

imposing a cap on state spending and reezing salaries o state public employees aspart o a one-year emergency fnancial plan, committing to no increase in personal orcorporate income taxes or sales taxes and imposing a local property tax cap. We mustalso eliminate mandates that make it impossible or school districts and localities tocontain costs.

3. Rightsizing Government.Government in New York is too big, ineective and expensive.We must enlist the best private sector minds to help overhaul our more than 1,000state agencies, authorities and commissions and reduce their number by 20 percent.We must make it easier to consolidate or share services among our more than 10,000local governments.

4. NY Works.We must make New York the jobs capital o the nation and get unemployedNew Yorkers back to work. We will give businesses a tax credit o up to $3,000 oreach unemployed New Yorker hired or a new job. We must also replace New Yorksineective economic development eorts with a new strategy organized around regionalindustry clusters; reduce the high costs o doing business in the state; and support smallbusinesses by increasing access to capital and streamlining regulatory barriers.

5. NY Leads. New York has been a national leader in protecting and advancing individualrights and saeguarding the uture o its citizens. To remain so, we must protect awomans right to choose, achieve marriage equality, enact tough anti-discrimination laws,truly regulate Wall Street, attract the best and the brightest to government, leave ourchildren a cleaner and greener world, and continue to oppose the death penalty.

Sign the pledge today at www.AndrewCuomo.com


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