Tony Avella To Shake Up Albany
By Mike Connery on 08/05/2010 @ 02:56 PM
Tony Avella was the subject of a glowing profile by Nathan Duke, of YourNabe.com, titled " Avella promises to shake up Albany politics." Avella is running against Republican incumbent Frank Padavan, who has routinely raised taxes and increased state spending in his nearly four decade tenure in the Senate.
Duke highlighted Avella's determination to "push the envelope in Albany" and clean up a government that has become defined by dysfunction. “I think a lot of people are turned off and disgusted by what they see,” Avella said. “There is dissatisfaction with the government. I tell people you can’t not vote because then the system will keep going along. I think we should shake it up.
Avella described how he views himself as more of a “civic member" than as a politician. “I think I bring an ethical standard to government,” he said. “I had a 100 percent attendance record [on the Council]. When I ran for mayor, I still did my job. I have a real dedication to being an elected official.
This profile comes on the heels of The Albany Project's positive profile of Avella and his campaign, which was posted earlier this week. In that interview, Avella declared that he believes that "it is essential to place limits on the ever increasing property taxes and address increases from annual property tax assessments." On the way the Senate operates, he said that "clearly, the Senate must have greater transparency, allow members greater opportunities for input and have much stronger ethics rules."
The district Avella is running in, SD-11, covers a number of Queens neighborhoods, including Bayside, Douglaston, Queens Village, Bellerose, Flushing, Whitestone, Little Neck, College Point, Hollis, Jamaica Estates, Glen Oaks and Floral Park.
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