Senate candidate visits Norwich
NORWICH – State Senate candidate Mark Trabucco, D-Owego, appeared in the City of Norwich for a press conference Tuesday, speaking agains the backdrop of the Chenango County Courthouse.
Trabucco’s speech largely focused on New York Regional Interconnect, and its plan to run a high-voltage power line through the county. Trabucco called into question actions taken by other politicians and their motives, even questioning actions taken by senators who seemed to support blocking the way for NYRI.
He specifically had doubts about a letter drafted by Senators Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton, John J. Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, James Seward, R-Milford and Raymond Meier, R-Western, which pressured Governor George Pataki to sign a bill that would make NYRI unable to use eminent domain for the line. Trabucco said the letter was meaningless because the governor has no power over the bill.
“The governor cannot sign nor can he veto the bill, because the governor does not have the bill,” Trabucco said. “I am here today to tell you that the GOP controlled State Senate and Senator Tom Libous are playing politics with the issue,” Trabucco said.
Trabucco then turned his attention to the governor, claiming he was also on the energy company’s side, having taken $316,000 in campaign contributions from them over the last seven years.
“Governor Pataki cannot be counted on to act in the interest of his upstate constituents,” he said.
The candidate spoke to how the power line project would raise upstate energy costs, lower property value, destroy the landscape and possibly pose a health risk.
Trabucco said that ultimately, major energy sources need to be closer to where they are needed, otherwise upstate residents will suffer the consequences of transmission lines and gain nothing.
In addition to the NYRI proposal, Trabucco spoke of the late June flooding and its aftermath. Counties devastated by the floods, he said, need significant funding to be repaired, and billions of unspent dollars need to be doled-out to the appropriate municipalities. Trabucco said the legislature had planned to use this money as tax refunds.
“That money would go a long way to ameliorate the situation,” he said. “In the form of a tax rebate, this would only amount to a couple hundred dollars per household.” Trabucco said he feels the money would go to much better use, if it were distributed in the form of aid to the hardest hit counties.
The senatorial candidate is running against Libous. The incumbent is currently serving his ninth term as Senator for the 52nd district. He was elected in 1988.
Trabucco’s speech largely focused on New York Regional Interconnect, and its plan to run a high-voltage power line through the county. Trabucco called into question actions taken by other politicians and their motives, even questioning actions taken by senators who seemed to support blocking the way for NYRI.
He specifically had doubts about a letter drafted by Senators Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton, John J. Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, James Seward, R-Milford and Raymond Meier, R-Western, which pressured Governor George Pataki to sign a bill that would make NYRI unable to use eminent domain for the line. Trabucco said the letter was meaningless because the governor has no power over the bill.
“The governor cannot sign nor can he veto the bill, because the governor does not have the bill,” Trabucco said. “I am here today to tell you that the GOP controlled State Senate and Senator Tom Libous are playing politics with the issue,” Trabucco said.
Trabucco then turned his attention to the governor, claiming he was also on the energy company’s side, having taken $316,000 in campaign contributions from them over the last seven years.
“Governor Pataki cannot be counted on to act in the interest of his upstate constituents,” he said.
The candidate spoke to how the power line project would raise upstate energy costs, lower property value, destroy the landscape and possibly pose a health risk.
Trabucco said that ultimately, major energy sources need to be closer to where they are needed, otherwise upstate residents will suffer the consequences of transmission lines and gain nothing.
In addition to the NYRI proposal, Trabucco spoke of the late June flooding and its aftermath. Counties devastated by the floods, he said, need significant funding to be repaired, and billions of unspent dollars need to be doled-out to the appropriate municipalities. Trabucco said the legislature had planned to use this money as tax refunds.
“That money would go a long way to ameliorate the situation,” he said. “In the form of a tax rebate, this would only amount to a couple hundred dollars per household.” Trabucco said he feels the money would go to much better use, if it were distributed in the form of aid to the hardest hit counties.
The senatorial candidate is running against Libous. The incumbent is currently serving his ninth term as Senator for the 52nd district. He was elected in 1988.
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