While Other State Representatives Are Fighting Against the $600 Million Stadium, Andrew Gounardes is in Brooklyn Taking More Photos
This morning on social media, NYS politicians are complaining about the long hours they worked in Albany fighting against the budget.
The NYS Finance Committee worked until 3:15 am. Andrew Gounardes is a member of the Finance Committee, but he wasn’t in Albany at the meeting to work at the budget. (See here)
Other politicians tweeted about working until 5:00 AM this morning.
Many Assembly members worked until 7:50 am. (Updated)
Senator Meyer was at the capitol at 8:30 pm last night still working. Why wasn’t Andrew Gounardes?
Tonight in Albany: pic.twitter.com/cc0S0niMY4
— Senator Shelley Mayer (@ShelleyBMayer) April 9, 2022
Where are our state representatives?
1) Senator Gounardes was taking photos in Leif Ericson Park in Brooklyn on Friday night. Brannan was atthe park, so it wasn’t necessary for Gounardes to be there – except to campaign for himself! (More photos here)
Events haven’t been done in our community for a long time due to the pandemic.
The state budget passed at 9:30 am today, Saturday morning (minutes ago) so Gounardes should have been in Albany fighting!
2) Frontus wrote yesterday that she was in Albany at the conference for NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislators. On Saturday evening, Frontus said she voted against the stadium:
I asked Dr. Frontus for help this year (after Karen Diaz’ death on the Gowanas I asked her to increase penalties against drunk drivers (See here) and help to freeze our property taxes.
We saw no new bills. Today she is sponsoring this workshop:
3) Tannousis did not mention the stadium or the budget. He said earlier in the week, he spoke out against bail reform. That’s great because he was the only one from our area against this bail system.
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Governor Hochul is a NY Bills fan and she wanted to get them a new stadium in Buffalo. (Source)
The new Buffalo Bills stadium is in the NYS budget twice:
And here is more money towards the stadium:
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Why does Upstate NY always benefit from the budget?:
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Hugs,
marlene
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