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Last Updated on Thursday, 5 August 2010 01:15 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 5 August 2010 01:15
From New York Post:
Gov. Paterson this morning continued to threaten a political showdown with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as he vowed once again to force the Assembly back into session to consider a popular measure capping local property taxes right before the Nov. 2 elections.
“I think the public has the right to know right before the election” where Assembly members stand on the measure, Paterson said on WOR radio.
The Democrat-controlled Senate passed Paterson’s proposed property tax cap earlier this week as it finally approved a new state budget, but Silver (D-Manhattan,) under pressure from the powerful teachers unions, refused to allow the measure to come to a vote.