ROB BIAGI CALLS ON GEORGE LATIMER TO STOP "GOOFING OFF"
AND GET BACK TO WORK BEFORE ECONOMIC DOOMSDAY

Candidate for Assembly says George Latimer and Assembly Democrats should
join Governor and Senate to return to Albany and cut spending

(July 28, 2008) With Governor Paterson's upcoming speech addressing the state's financial crisis and the probable return to Albany of the State Senate, Rob Biagi, candidate for New York State Assembly in the 91st District, today called once again on Assemblyman George Latimer and his Democrat cronies to call off their summer vacations and return to session to cut spending and get New York back on track.

"George Latimer and his Assembly buddies are spending money like it's going out of style. Not to mention all the unfunded mandates that they expect the taxpayers of New York to pay the tab on. They need to go back to Albany and cut what they shouldn't have spent to begin with," said Biagi, also noting that Latimer voted "yes" to this year's state budget increase of 4.9 percent - more than rate of inflation.

"Reducing spending is what has to be done to rescue the state from the brink of economic doomsday. George Latimerand the Assembly need to go back to Albany, and stay there until the spending spree is stopped," said Biagi. "If we expect people to stay in New York, we need to stop out of control spending, which is supplemented by sky high taxes and unfunded mandates that put the burden back on the taxpayers."

"The Senate is going back to work in Albany to provide real relief, while George Latimerand his Democrat friends continue to sit around on an extended vacation at the expense of New York taxpayers," said Biagi. "One Nobel Prize winning economist has said that we are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. If that's true, then Latimer should stop goofing off and star working to solve this catastrophe." Biagi further warned that "Latimer should know better than to casually dismiss the gloomy economic climate and property tax catastrophe as he's been doing lately, telling community groups and folks at barbeques that it's not as bad as it seems – he's completely ignorant of the expert forecasts coming out of the business pages, let alone his own-party's Governor and is woefully out of touch with the pain we're all feeling in Westchester."

"What we have to do to give New Yorkers relief is for the Legislature to stop spending money without concern or regard and start being fiscally responsible. The legislature has to give relief to the taxpayers of New York and cut spending to ensure we do not slip any further into chaos," concluded Biagi.