As I Go Door-To-Door

“My husband is working two jobs and trying to get a third. And I’ve got three kids. The cost of everything is just going crazy,” a young woman from Hopewell Junction told me while standing on her front step. “There’s not much more we can take,” She was almost in tears.

“I grew up around the block. My mother still lives there, but I don’t know how much longer she can. We’re paying her bills, but…it’s the property taxes. She’s going to have to move, and breaking the news to her isn’t going to be easy,” a life-long Beacon resident told me.

“Is anybody listening? Does anybody care? Maybe that’s more to the point.” The gentleman who posed those questions shrugged his shoulders and walked back into his East Fishkill home.

As I've walked the neighborhoods of the 41st District, people have told me they have had it with exploding property taxes, the Albany payola money machine, secret special interest wheeling and dealing… basically the whole broken, unresponsive, self serving, status quo that passes for state government these days.

That’s why I’m running for the New York State Senate, and, with your help, we CAN make a real difference. We CAN fix the system. It won’t be easy, but together we can do it.

Soon, I’ll be in your neighborhood with my message of change and hope. I'll talk with you about:

• My ideas concerning property tax relief. It’s time we really tackle this issue, instead of the old Albany two-step approach of borrow and spend.

• My plan to take big money out of politics. Clean Money, Clean Elections.

• Complete budget overhaul based upon a “spend as you go” mentality which will save the state billions annually.

• My ideas about health care. Finding the will to fight the medical establishment and treat health care as a human right, not just another profit-generating product.

We have so much to do. Let’s get started. Join the NEW Team for a NEW New York.