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Candidates For Governor Campaign Across New York

By Karen DeWitt | April 27, 2018
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Cynthia Nixon. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

ALBANY NY (WSKG) – Challengers to Gov. Andrew Cuomo were on the campaign trail Thursday, as the governor announced a massive new anti-poverty program in Brooklyn.

Democratic candidate Cynthia Nixon visited the Finger Lakes to voice her opposition to a controversial proposed liquefied natural gas plant on Seneca Lake. The gas company Crestwood wants to store liquid propane gas in caverns created from salt mining along Seneca Lake. They are awaiting a decision from Cuomo’s Department of Environmental Conservation.

Nixon says if she’s elected governor, she’ll “drive a stake into the heart” of the project, which she says could damage the lake’s water quality.

She says she’s also against a proposed garbage burning waste to energy plant in Romulus, just a few miles from the lake. She says it is completely inappropriate for the state’s “world class” wine region, which she compared to the famous wine regions of California.

“California Governor Jerry Brown would never, ever allow a giant garbage incinerator to be sited in the middle of Napa Valley,” Nixon said. “Why in the world would our governor, Andrew Cuomo, sit idly by and allow this incinerator to be sited in the heart of the Finger Lakes?”

Nixon says in 2011, Cuomo signed a law that would make it easier for projects like the Romulus plant to get state permits. Nixon says she’d repeal that law.

A spokesman for the Department of Environmental Conservation, Sean Mahar, says a “final determination” has not yet been made on whether to issue the permits for the plant. He did not offer a timetable for a decision. And he said the garbage burning plant is being reviewed by a state siting board, and will “undergo an extensive environmental and public review process.” He says the board has the power to “deny any project that is not protective of public health and the environment.”

Later in the day, Nixon stopped in Syracuse, where she spoke outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, where she said she would do a lot more to protect the state’s undocumented immigrants.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File )

Cuomo, meanwhile, was in Brooklyn announcing a large scale economic development project that would bring $1.5 billion to the borough. It would build over 2000 new affordable housing units, open new health care facilities create new parks and open new farmers markets.

“By the end of 2020 we’re going to have it all up and running. It’s real, it’s happening, it’s going to make a difference in the lives of people who’ve been struggling for too long,” Cuomo said to applause from the audience invited to the event.

Republican candidate for Governor Marc Molinaro.

Republican candidate for Governor Marc Molinaro stopped in Albany after locking up the Republican nomination for governor. Molinaro received the endorsement of the party leaders in Westchester, Niagara and Albany counties. Molinaro, who was raised by a single mother in modest circumstances, seemed a bit overwhelmed by the milestone.

“I’m humbled,” said Molinaro, who said he’s gone from receiving food stamps as a boy to being the likely nominee of a major political party for governor of New York.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco announced earlier in the week that he would no longer actively campaign for governor, clearing the way for Molinaro’s nomination at the Republican state convention in May.

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