{"id":87947,"date":"2018-01-09T01:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87947"},"modified":"2018-01-08T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:10:44","slug":"brindisi-reacts-to-cuomos-state-of-the-state-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87947","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi reacts to Cuomo&#8217;s State of the State message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-80461\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-400x571.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/>Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica issued the following statement, reacting to Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s 2018 State of the State message, delivered Jan. 3 in Albany:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThe Governor outlined an ambitious agenda today in broad strokes, admitting that the state faces a very difficult year ahead with a looming $4 billion budget deficit, and $2 billion in federal budget cuts.\u00a0 I look forward to learning more about the Governor\u2019s proposals to fix the state\u2019s broken education funding system, lower the<\/em> <em>middle-class tax rate, and go after the prescription drug distributors that turned a blind eye to the opioid crisis, among other things.\u00a0 This will be a difficult budget year given the federal assault on New York State; however, I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to tackle these challenges head-on and pass an on-time budget.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica issued the following statement, reacting to Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s 2018 State of the State message, delivered Jan. 3 in Albany: \u201cThe Governor outlined an ambitious agenda today in broad strokes, admitting that the state faces a very difficult year ahead with a looming $4 billion budget deficit, and $2 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}