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Cuomo Promotes State Budget Priorities

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his $33 million dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.

The ads, which feature in part Cuomo speaking directly to camera , focus on the governor’s pitch for his tax cut plan and an ethics package that includes public financing of political campaigns and a crack down on bribery.

Karen Scharff, with Citizen Action, says the ethics ads are a good sign.

“The governor’s ads are signaling that he intends to get it done and get it in his budget April 1st,” Scharff said.

A third Cuomo ad advocates delaying implementation of  new testing of the Common Core learning standards,  which Cuomo says has been  “premature”.

No budget for the ads has been disclosed.

Karen DeWitt is Capitol Bureau chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of public radio stations in New York state. She has covered state government and politics for the network since 1990.