Updated 11/17/2008 06:01 PM
Citizen Action to hit Albany
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- "We actually might be smarter than the Governor!"
Bill Spreter, a board member for the Alliance for Quality Education, spokes in jest to reporters as he hopes for the best. On Tuesday, several from the group Citizen Action are visiting Albany. They don't want to see monies in the line of education or Medicaid cut.
"We cannot allow the Governor to cut that money!" added Tanika Jones-Cole of Citizen Action for New York. "The little people on the bottom shouldn't always have to take the blows. People on the top that make a little more should feel it sometimes."
"Hopefully, he will consider other sources of revenue for a more balanced approach to end the kind of suffering that is bound to occur if he merely looks at cuts," said Spreter.
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At the same time they spoke to reporters, so did Senator John DeFrancisco. He doesn't plan on voting for any cuts that would affect education. But as far as Medicaid is concerned...
"Medicaid, other than education, is the top expense of the state of New York, so if that's the top expense, if you're going to make real cuts, than that's the area that's going to be the most logical one," said DeFrancisco, the republican senator of Syracuse.
The Citizen Action Group will ascend on Albany on Tuesday to join a 1,500 person rally. They say about 75 Central New Yorkers will join that rally.