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County attorney Mary Jo Long summarizes her campaign message
this way: "New York State government has for two decades
served the interest of the corporate class by deregulating mega-business,
providing a host of tax breaks and subsidies and slashing upper
income and corporate taxes. Meanwhile counties and localities
have raised regressive property and sales taxes to cover the
shortfall in funding for basic infrastructure like schools, parks,
public safety, clinics, mass transit, sewage treatment and so
on. The Green Party is dedicated to reversing this trend, putting
'we the people' back in the driver's seat, so we can rebuild
a New York where people are willing to pay fair taxes to support
sensible social services."
In her 25 year practice, Long has seen the two-income family
become the norm, yet medical security, higher education opportunities
and home ownership are available to even fewer New Yorkers. Bankruptcies,
farm foreclosures, factory relocations, extortionate utility
rates, empty stores on Main Streets, sabotaged pension plans
and stagnant wages are the economic consequence of the Enron
economics enabled by Republicrat administrations in D.C. and
Albany.
For 25 years public policy has subsidized the fossil fuel
and pharmo-chemical industries, (as well as industrial agriculture)
to the market disadvantage of renewable energy, organic agriculture,
and earth-friendly industrial production. And at the cost of
a plague of cancers, asthmas, Attention Deficit Disorder, and
a host of hormone-related disorders.
And for 25 years a bipartisan policy has deformed democracy
by mainlining corporate cash to an incumbent-bound legislature
that privileges the economic "rights" of the Walmarts
to move in, the Anitec's to move out, and the developers to collect
public cash and move on -- over the political right of "we
the people" to rebuild a just, equitable, and healthy society.
"There is only one party in Albany now, the party of
big business. Voting for one well-financed candidate or another
won't change a thing. Not voting at all won't either. I urge
New Yorkers who believe in our capacity for self-government to
take a deep breath, and vote Green in November."
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