In MN this weekend with @youngdems.bsky.social, getting to work in support of the DNC’s vision to return our party to dominance with a populist, working-class outlook.

✅ $30 million in a new incentive to develop additional senior housing outside New York City.

I’ll be advocating for these items and others on behalf of seniors over the next several weeks as we negotiate towards a final state budget.

It's time to get in the game! Today I’m paying for a texting and digital campaign to fill every single one of them.

Join your committee here: www.ocnydemocrats.org/jointheparty

We can't allow ourselves to ever be out-organized again, and local Democratic committees are where grassroots meets party.

In counties across the nation, huge numbers of Democratic committee seats are vacant. Here in Orange County, only 357 of 670 town Democratic committee seats are filled.

I urge the Legislature and Governor to include this and other provisions in the budget to claw back - and further reduce - the Chancellor’s outrageous salary and taxpayer-funded perks.

I will soon reintroduce legislation (S.6113 of 2023) requiring approval of any salary plan for chancellors, presidents, and senior staffers of the SUNY and CUNY systems by both legislative chambers and the Division of Budget.

While New Yorkers bust their asses trying to make ends meet in this state - and his own SUNY students work the night shift to afford their bills - the Chancellor feels he should make nearly four times the salary of the state’s governor. This is elitist. This is offensive.

Yet $750K a year wasn’t enough for this government employee who works for the people. $12,500 a month for housing allowance also wasn’t enough. Knowing the shame associated with a $125K pay raise and $2,500 housing allowance increase, King further tried to conceal the pickpocketing from public view.

Yet $750K a year wasn’t enough for this government employee. $12,500 a month for housing allowance also wasn’t enough. Knowing the shame associated with a $12k pay raise and a $2k housing increase, King further tried to conceal the pickpocketing from public view.

This is a measure of last resort that I do not advance lightly. I look forward to fighting for the bill’s passage and delivering relief for my overtaxed, under-serviced constituents - enough is enough!

Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson has agreed to carry our legislation in his chamber and we are joined by *every* member of the Orange County delegation: Senator Rolison as well as Assembly Members Eachus, Kay, Brabenec, and Maher.