Daily Campaign Roundup: Calcaterra On The Offensive On Education
By Mike Connery on 06/30/2010 @ 04:45 PM
TODAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news. Regina Calcaterra slams Ken Lavalle on school funding. Sen. Craig Johnson toughens New York's drug laws.
- Democratic Candidate Regina Calcaterra slams Lavalle’s apathy towards education funding – Calcaterra called her opponent, 34-year Republican incumbent Ken LaValle out of touch for saying that Suffolk County school districts may not feel much pain without hundreds of millions of dollars of restored state school aid funding. "LaValle says most school districts may not feel much pain if this important funding is not restored. Try telling that to the overtaxed, overburdened, out-of-work residents in our neighborhoods and communities from Port Jefferson to Mastic to Montauk,” Calcaterra said. "During the past 20 years alone of Ken LaValle's 34 years in Albany, Suffolk County property taxes have risen by more than 550 percent. That's too much pain already.”
- Sen. Craig Johnson’s legislation toughens drug laws – Legislation sponsored by Sen. Johnson which toughens existing laws to make it so a person who sells a controlled substance that causes a death would be charged with manslaughter passed the Senate yesterday. “A gravely serious heroin epidemic is gripping Long Island's youth and those who sell death to our children must be held accountable. This legislation will give prosecutors one more tool to protect our communities and safeguard our future,” Sen. Johnson said.
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