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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday that he was trying to get two contentious legislative issues — rent regulations anda tax credit meant to expand access to private schools — approved by the Assembly and the Senate by linking the fates of both.
In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Cuomo said he was trying to play “a mediation role” in the final days of this year’s legislative session, which is scheduled to end Wednesday.
“Part of my job is to get both parties to agree to a solution, right?” Mr. Cuomo said, explaining that the Senate “badly” wants the education tax credit, and the Assembly “badly wants rent regulations increased.”
“I badly want both,” he said. “The mutual interest is: Well, why don’t you do both? The Senate will do this for the Assembly, and the Assembly does the other.”
“It’s not that I support one or the other — I support both,” the governor added. “It’s just, if there is going to be a compromise reached that meets the needs of both houses, those are the two primary needs at this time.”
But time is short. The Assembly, controlled by Democrats, has not been receptive to the tax credit, while it is pushing hard not only to extend rent laws, but also to strengthen them so that fewer units are deregulated. The laws expire on Monday.
Mr. Cuomo, too, has called for strengthening rent regulations, but the State Senate, controlled by Republicans, has traditionally been resistant.
On Thursday night, the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, rejected Mr. Cuomo’s argument that the two issues be tied together. Referring to the rent laws, he said, “Millions of hard-working people and their families depend on these laws, and we just feel in this case rent should stand on its own merit.”
A spokesman for the Senate Republicans declined to comment.
The education tax credit proposal has become one of the capital’s liveliest policy debates. Teachers’ unions are strenuously fighting it, saying it would divert resources from public schools. Its opponents also include the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Citizens Budget Commission and the state’s League of Women Voters.
Religious leaders, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, are pushing for the measure. So is an assemblage of wealthy financiers, including several billionaires, who have helped fund the Coalition for Opportunity in Education, which has run an elaborate lobbying campaign to persuade lawmakers.
A version of the proposal, released last month by Mr. Cuomo, offers tax credits for people and businesses that donate money to nonprofit organizations to pay for scholarships for students at private schools, including religious ones. Donors would receive a tax credit for 75 percent of their donation, with a maximum credit of $1 million. Their tax bill would be reduced by the amount of the credit, making it much more valuable than a charitable deduction.
The bill also includes tax credits for donations to public schools and a tax credit for public-school teachers who buy classroom supplies. In the governor’s proposal last month, he added a new benefit: Families with incomes of up to $60,000 would also receive a $500 tax credit per student who attends private school.
In the interview, Mr. Cuomo cited Catholic schools closing “all over the place,” and said the opposition to the legislation was being driven by teachers’ unions.
“They don’t want the competition of these schools where they don’t represent the members,” Mr. Cuomo said, adding: “There’s no principle here. There’s no argument.”
He said that Assembly members opposed to the proposal were upstate members being pressured by the statewide teachers’ union, New York State United Teachers, as well as “the predictable sort of Manhattan liberals” concerned about the separation of church and state.
Carl Korn, a spokesman for the union, bristled at the governor’s assertion about what was driving the union’s opposition. “That’s an insult to all thoughtful New Yorkers who would rather see greater equality in education funding than their governor showering hedge-fund billionaires with tax giveaways,” he said.
The motivations behind the governor’s enthusiastic support for the tax credit have been the subject of some speculation in the capital. Some critics have pointed to his relationship with wealthy supporters of education reform, including charter schools, and his long-running clash with teachers’ unions.
The coalition was the brainchild of Peter M. Flanigan, an investment banker and former aide to President Richard M. Nixon who died in 2013, said Robert J. Bellafiore, a spokesman for the group. Its donors have included the billionaires Bruce Kovner, Ira Rennert, Julian H. Robertson Jr. and Paul E. Singer.
The group has spent more than $1 million on lobbying in each of the past two years, making it one of the top 10 lobbying spenders both years, according to the state’s ethics commission.
A political action committee associated with the group, the Educational Fund, has donated several hundred thousand dollars to a long list of political candidates and parties in New York since 2012, campaign finance records show. Mr. Cuomo has not reported receiving any contributions from the fund, nor does he appear to have received many contributions from people who have been identified as donors to the coalition.
Mr. Bellafiore said the spending was necessary to counter what teachers’ unions had spent on politics over decades. “It’s too bad that we have to raise this kind of money to fight back, but we’re happy to do it if it’s going to help expand parental choice,” he said.
In the past month, Mr. Cuomo has stepped up his efforts, including hosting lawmakers at the Executive Mansion last week to meet with Cardinal Dolan.
The governor’s support of the tax credit could also help his standing with important constituencies, including white Catholics as well as minority voters who, regardless of their religious views, send their children to Catholic schools. “When the governor looked at the politics of this,” said Bruce N. Gyory, a political consultant not involved in the tax credit advocacy, “he probably saw a critical mass of demographic support behind the bill.”
An advertising war has broken out in recent weeks over the tax credit. New York State United Teachers has sent out direct-mail advertising in dozens of Assembly districts in an effort to fight the tax credit.
The coalition, on the other hand, has targeted Assembly members with mailers accusing them of voting to give themselves a pay raise, an attack that has rankled some lawmakers.
The coalition has also received a boost from two other education groups, StudentsFirstNY and Families for Excellent Schools. Both groups support charter schools, though donations to charter schools are not eligible for the tax credit. The two groups, along with the coalition, have paid for television advertising in support of the tax credit.
“It feels like pressure behind a dam, and eventually, you feel like the dam is going to break,” said Marian A. Bott, the education finance specialist for the League of Women Voters of New York State.
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