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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 11:32 AM Apr 2014

Cuomo Aide Insists Budget ‘Very Progressive’ Despite Working Families Party Claims

Colin Campbell

The left-leaning Working Families Party has aggressively pushed back on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Inequality Budget,” but a top Cuomo aide maintains that the latest state funding package actually has solid progressive bonafides.

In an interview last night on NY1?s Inside City Hall, Howard Glaser, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s director of state operations, said it’d be difficult to find a budget more progressive than the one signed into law earlier this week.

http://observer.com/2014/04/cuomo-aide-insists-budget-very-progressive-despite-working-families-party-claims/

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