2014 New York Governor's race: on Local Issues


Zephyr Teachout: Dirty money is funding the Tappan Zee Bridge construction

Teachout said Cuomo has avoided situations where he could be held accountable for breaking promises. "He hasn't been transparent," she said. "He doesn't engage in debates. He doesn't go on unscripted television interviews, where somebody can actually ask him hard questions. He doesn't like being in front of crowds where people can ask him hard questions."

Teachout said she considers Cuomo's decision to use state Clean Water Fund money for construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge to be stealing from an account intended to help local communities with infrastructure projects. "That is dirty money funding the Tappan Zee Bridge," she said.

Teachout said voters need to end the system of "third-rate politics that we have now that is weighed down by corruption in Albany--or, to put it another way, weighed down by three men in a room [the governor and the leaders of the state Senate and Assembly]. The best way to break up three men in a room and the old boys of Albany is to add a woman to the mix."

Source: Daily Freeman on 2014 New York gubernatorial race Jul 22, 2014

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