John Sweeney State Quotations

Working people are not just fed up -- they are ready to get active to set our country in a different direction, one state at a time.

Despite the same, tired old scare tactics of the special interests, under the governor's budget New York will continue to spend more money than any other state on providing quality health care to its citizens. If the special interests want the taxpayers to spend even more than the record amounts they already provide, then the special interests need to say which tax they would raise or what other area of the budget they would cut.

The budget also proposes bringing the total annual state spending on education to nearly $17 billion, or 72 percent higher than when (Pataki) took office. As a result, today New Yorkers spend more than $12,000 per pupil to support public education - virtually the highest amount in the nation.

A long-term strategic grass-roots campaign will follow in each state in the coming weeks and months.

We cannot afford to stand by and wait for the federal government to take action. So we're going to take it on state by state.