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Hawkins Opposes Calls to Hike Sales Tax on Working Families |
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 00:00 |
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Repeats Call for Higher Taxes on Wall Street, Wealthy New Yorkers Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, strongly opposed the proposals being floated by State Democratic leaders to solve the state's budget deficit by hiking taxes on poor and moderate income families while continuing to protect Wall Street and other wealthy New Yorkers. Democrats leaders are discussing reinstituting the 4 percent state sales tax on clothing and shoes costing less than $110, which could bring the state as much as $690 million. They are also discussing expanding the lottery's Quick Draw (aka Crack Draw) and allowing electronic table gambling games at racetrack casinos. |
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Hawkins Urges State Lawmakers to Fully Fund Schools |
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Monday, 07 June 2010 00:00 |
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For Immediate Release
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called upon state lawmakers to reject the proposed $1.4 billion cut in education funding proposed by Gov. Paterson for the state's public school system, instead fully funding education and complying with the recent court decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) lawsuit. Hawkins has also strongly advocated increased funding for the SUNY and CUNY system. "The state should fulfill its state constitutional obligation to provide a basic education to all New York children. As Governor, I will push for the state to pick up an increasing share of the cost of running our schools, reducing the burden on local property taxes. Our Green US Senate candidate, Colia Clark and Cecile Lawrence, will also push to cut our bloated military budget and divert the funding to key domestic needs such as our schools," said Hawkins. |
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Hawkins Says Democrats Stealing Money from Poor New Yorkers |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:00 |
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For Immediate Release
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, today accused state Democratic leaders of stealing federal dollars intended to help poor people. The federal government is providing an extra $638 million in federal dollars in the current state budget to help low-income New Yorkers by providing them with employment opportunities; one-time payments; or to deal with increasing caseloads. Instead State lawmakers have agreed to slash funding from last year's funding levels for job programs and other critial anti-poverty programs, diverting hundreds of millions of these targeted welfare (i.e., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF) dollars to other parts of the state budget. |
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Greens: Hawkins, Lawrence, Clark Call for Obama to Seize BP Assets to Pay for Oil Spill Damage |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 00:00 |
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For Immediate Release
Green Party candidates for statewide office in NYC, including Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins and Cecile Lawrence and Colia Clark for US Senate, joined today in the growing call for President Obama to seize British Petroleum's assets and to initiate criminal prosecution of BP and its leaders.. The assets seized should at least be in an amount commensurate with the damage caused by their criminal negligence, and that the funds should be placed into a trust that could quickly and easily pay for damages and compensation now and into the future as more damages accrue. The Greens also said that the nation's largest environmental disaster underscores the need to ban the hyndrofracking for natural gas deposits in order to protect the state's water supplies and public health. |
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Cecile Lawrence - HydroFracking |
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Monday, 14 June 2010 00:00 |
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Green Party New York U.S. Senate candidate Cecile Lawrence (vs Kirsten Gillibrand) speaks against hydrofracking in New York State and beyond. Recorded on the Ithaca Commons on Saturday, June 12, 2010.
more info http://cecilelawrence.org/
Thanks to Ben Bristol of Broome County NY for shooting and editing the video |
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