Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, speaking on behalf of Andrew Cuomo on Fred Dicker’s radio show, continued the “Albany-speak” attack on legislative leaders’ approach to the property tax cap.
“I like and respect Senator Skelos and also Speaker Silver, but the job is to get this done,” said Duffy. “The governor has been very clear. We can talk back and forth, now it’s time not to talk about I passed this, I passed this…get it done. Support the governor’s tax cap, support the governor’s legislative priorities…let’s get these issues passed.”
I wrote an article for this morning’s Times Union about the back-and-forth. The Democrat-dominated Assembly is still sitting on a bill on the subject, with Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos pointing to his house’s passage of a cap — authored by Cuomo — in January.
Assemblyman Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat whose comments to Gannett News Service were cited to me by other lawmakers as possible contents of the Assembly bill, called this morning to clarify his position on all things tax-cap.
“I have not said I support the concept of a sunset. The question was, would I speculate what kind of things might be in the Assembly version,” Morelle told me. “I support the governor’s bill…I was just suggesting, when asked, what I thought might be in the Assembly bill.”