It took well over a month to pry it out of him, but Jim Tedisco has finally gone on the record as to how he would have voted on the stimulus package. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he would have joined every other GOP member of the House in voting against it. That's right, Tedisco would have voted against the largest middle class tax cut in history.
It's no longer a hypothetical question.
Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco just came out against the stimulus package passed last month by Congress after having previously saying only that he supported a package with amendments. The question has been used by his Democratic opponent, Scott Murphy, in their race to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress.
"My position is: yeah, I worked as hard as I could have to get those amendments in and to get them passed. I realize now that people don't understand that if they didn't get passed, I would have voted no," Tedisco said. "I'm going on the record now to say I would have voted no, because what we should have done was go back to the drawing board, get a stimulus package that truly creates jobs, invests in infrastructure and the economy."
I love how Tedisco chides everyone else in the world for not being able to read his mind. The man has been asked this rather simple yes or no question dozens of times over the last month or so and has consistently declined to answer. Apparently, everyone else is at fault for not interpreting his repeated dodges properly. Whatever.
What should be obvious by Tedisco finally coughing up an answer is that his campaign has come to realize that the weeks long refusal to take a position has been killing them.
Better late than never, I guess, though it is rather insulting to refuse for so long to answer such a simple question about an issue of such significance. At least the voters of the 20th now know for certain where Tedisco stands. He stands firmly with the rest of the House GOP, the party of no. Tedisco stands against tax cuts for the middle class and against doing anything substantive to jump start a contracting economy, save and create jobs, including 76K jobs in upstate NY, rebuild America and keep people in their homes. Now, the voters of NY-20 can make their minds up accordingly.
Glad we cleared that up. |
