For Release: IMMEDIATELY, June 15, 2010
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FRANK SPARACO: “WHERE’S THE BUDGET?”
Rockland County small businessman says state budget now 76 days late as Assemblyman Zebrowski has driven NY to brink of government shutdown
VALLEY COTTAGE, NY— Frank Sparaco (R-Valley Cottage), local small businessman and 94th Assembly District candidate, today blasted Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, Jr. (D-New City) for bringing New York to the brink of a cataclysmic government shutdown due to his inability to pass a state budget.
This is the 76th day without a state budget in effect. In the meantime, the legislature has been forced to pass weekly budget extenders to keep government running, the most recent of which threatened to close down state government.
“I think I speak for all Rockland County residents when I ask Assemblyman Zebrowski, ‘where’s the budget?” said Sparaco, the owner of Pops Vending in Valley Cottage.
“Ken Zebrowski is a member of the Assembly Democrat Majority and should be pushing his colleagues to quit stalling and start working to pass a budget,” said Sparaco. “If Zebrowski has any pull in the Assembly, what’s he waiting for – the state police to put a closed for business sign on the Thruway entrance? There’s just four scheduled days left in the 2010 legislative session and we still don’t have a budget.”
“I’m a small businessman and I can tell you this is no way to run a business let alone state government…unless your plan is to run it into the ground,” said Sparaco.
“So far, the only thing Assemblyman Zebrowski has done is ask voters to send him back to Albany for a job not done. Ken Zebrowski’s going to have to do an awful lot of creative resume padding between now and November,” said Sparaco.
The 94th Assembly District includes Clarkstown, Haverstraw, and Ramapo.
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