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The Creative Resistance
The Creative Resistance
stated on October 24, 2017 a video
"IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump"
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By Dan Clark • November 5, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on October 6, 2017 a statement
"Women in our state will continue to have cost-free access to reproductive health care"
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By Dan Clark • October 21, 2017
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on September 19, 2017 a conversation with reporters
New York has "the biggest outmigration of citizens of any state."
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By Dan Clark • September 29, 2017
José Serrano
José Serrano
stated on September 12, 2017 a tweet
"Republicans want to restore #gunrights to felons"
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By Dan Clark • September 22, 2017
Sean Patrick Maloney
Sean Patrick Maloney
stated on August 3, 2017 a radio interview
"Most people on Medicaid are kids, or seniors, or the disabled."
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By Dan Clark • August 23, 2017
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 25, 2017 a speech at City & State’s State of NY Women forum
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."
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By Dan Clark • June 9, 2017
Patrick Gallivan
Patrick Gallivan
stated on March 27, 2017 a press conference
Of "30,000 individuals arrested a year for crimes that are 16 or 17, over 95 percent of them do not result in a criminal conviction. Only 1.5 percent of them ultimately go to state prison."
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By Dan Clark • April 3, 2017
Martin Golden
Martin Golden
stated on January 30, 2017 a press conference announcing the Community Heroes Protection Act
"Just last year, alone, 710 police officers" were assaulted in New York state.
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By Dan Clark • February 11, 2017
Deborah Glick
Deborah Glick
stated on January 17, 2017 a debate in the Assembly chamber
"New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe."
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By Dan Clark • January 30, 2017
Carl Heastie
Carl Heastie
stated on October 24, 2016 an article from WBFO
Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, "that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000."
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By Dan Clark • November 18, 2016
Robert Duffy
Robert Duffy
stated on August 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Rochester Business Journal
If upstate New York split from downstate "the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country."
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By Dan Clark • September 16, 2016
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 a press conference and several other recent public appearances.
Says middle-class New York State residents will have the "lowest tax rate in 70 years."
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By Dan Clark • July 15, 2016
Michael Caputo
Michael Caputo
stated on June 22, 2016 an interview on Capital Tonight, Time Warner Cable News.
Says Donald Trump "spent the least amount of money of any of the competitive primary contenders that he beat so badly."
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By Dan Clark • July 1, 2016
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