NY: Green Candidate for Governor Criticizes Democrat Patterson for Robbing Environmental Fund to Pay off Wall Street

From Green party Watch:

From Howie Hawkins for New York Governor: Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today he opposed Governor Paterson’s proposal to raid more than $100 million from the Environmental Protection Fund under the guise of raising $6 million to keep state parks and historic sites open.

“When the state is rebating $16 billion annually to Wall Street speculators from the Stock Transfer Tax, it certainly doesn’t need to raid an already depleted fund for environmental capital projects in order to keep state parks open. It’s time to stop using the EPF as the Governor’s personal piggy bank. Paterson is deceptively and cynically using the upcoming the Memorial Day weekend, when parks are working people’s vacation resorts, to rob the environment to pay off Wall Street,” noted Hawkins, a former Marine.