Sunday, April 12, 2020
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post
ET | 1st Post
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Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V.
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| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 48 | 3:00 PM | 12:00 PM | PDT | | | |
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 24 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | Mt. Cristo Rey H. | | |
| TAM | TAMPA BAY DOWNS | 72 | 0 | 12:35 PM | 12:35 PM |
We just got an update on New York state's budget negotiations, friends. And it's bad news, both for working New Yorkers and for our democracy.
Governor Cuomo has put huge cuts to hospitals and to our public schools on the table — in the middle of a pandemic! His budget also plans to roll back bail reform, which would mean putting MORE New Yorkers who haven't been convicted of any crimes into jails which are already hotbeds for the coronavirus.
Sunday, April 12, 2020
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post
ET | 1st Post
Local | Time
Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V.
Indicator |
|---|
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 48 | 3:00 PM | 12:00 PM | PDT | | | |
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 24 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | Mt. Cristo Rey H. | | |
| TAM | TAMPA BAY DOWNS | 72 | 0 | 12:35 PM | 12:35 PM |
And if that's not enough, Andrew Cuomo is even using the cover of this pandemic to take aim squarely at the Working Families Party by re-inserting a massive hike in minor party qualification thresholds for the ballot. This proposal has nothing to do with the budget, and everything to do with trying to silence the WFP and progressives in New York.
Can you take action right now to block this latest power grab from Cuomo?
Almost exactly a year ago, Governor Cuomo used the annual budget process to sneak in a commission aimed at attacking WFP. As designed, his commission produced a binding report raising the ballot thresholds. Then we sued them — and we won.
But now Cuomo is at it again — trying to sneak in an attack at the last minute, this time during a pandemic. If it holds, the minimum threshold for parties to retain ballot status would increase from 50,000 votes to as many as 200,000 (2% of the statewide vote) and it would be imposed every two years, instead of every four.
The budget is looking bad. If what we're hearing is accurate, it'll make New Yorkers sicker and poorer, and make the pandemic worse. And those who are finding reassurance in the governor's daily press conferences would be disgusted if they knew about this cruel, austerity budget he's pushing on New Yorkers.
Can you stand with us now and make sure your legislators hear from you?
And in case you missed it, read below for our email from yesterday outlining our demands for the budget this year.
Thank you,
Sochie Nnaemeka
State Director
NY Working Families Party
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Friends,
New York is now the national epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of us now has loved ones who have been affected in one way or another — our friends, our family members, our neighbors.
Some have fallen ill. Some are working every day on the front lines. Some have lost jobs and will not be able to afford the rent tomorrow. All of us have our most vulnerable loved ones at the top of our minds every day.
Tonight, New Yorkers will have a chance to see how our leaders respond to this pandemic in their actions, not words. That's because in the midst of all this, the state budget is due at midnight tonight, on April 1st.
Budgets are always moral documents that reflect which lives our leaders value. During this historic pandemic — with our economy on pause and working families in crisis — that's truer than ever.
But even as he goes in front the cameras every day to explain the evolving nature of this crisis to New Yorkers, Governor Cuomo has also appointed a "Medicaid Redesign Team" that is proposing MASSIVE cuts to hospitals in low-income districts that are already being pushed to the limit in this crisis.
We are calling on Governor Cuomo and state legislative leaders to stand up for working families and the most vulnerable New Yorkers in this budget:
- Include a tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers to raise revenue for the many instead of cutting the budget on the backs of Black, brown, poor and working-class communities;
- No devastating cuts to healthcare funding while doctors, nurses, and front-line healthcare workers are risking their lives to contain this pandemic;
- No rollbacks to bail reform that will only send more New Yorkers into our overcrowded jails that are becoming hotbeds of this disease;
- Fully fund public education so that our children and their heroic teachers and staff are cared for;
- A moratorium on rent;
- No attacks on democracy or other unrelated policy initiatives that have no place in a budget during a crisis like this;
There are two ways out of the economic crisis coming our way. We can slash spending on public services like hospitals and public schools that serve working New Yorkers, or we can raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers.
Governor Cuomo is claiming that he has no choice but to cut funding for hospitals and schools. But let's be clear: We could quickly and easily raise billions of dollars by asking New Yorkers who have multiple homes and multimillion-dollar incomes to do their part.
That's what other New York governors have done when faced with similar crises in the past, including the Great Depression, multiple recessions, after 9/11, and after the 2009 financial crisis.
The decisions our leaders make right now will be remembered for generations. The actions we all take will be remembered too.
In solidarity,
Sochie Nnaemeka
State Director
NY Working Families Party
This is a message from New York Working Families Party.
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