Speaking outside Tweed Courthouse in downtown Manhattan, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo kicked off his campaign for Governor of the State of New York Saturday, May 22nd. Read his agenda here:

The New NY Agenda
-    Based on Hard Economic Realities
-    Demand for Performance
-    Clean Up Government
-    A Mobilized Citizenry

Clean Up Albany Plan
-    Strict New Ethics Laws
-    Full Disclosure of Legislators’ Outside Income
-    Real Independent Investigators to Root Out and Punish Corruption in the Executive and           Legislative Branches
-    New Campaign Finance Laws, including public financing of campaigns
-    Independent Redistricting Commission
-    Reduce Influence of Lobbyists
-    A People’s Constitutional Convention

Emergency Financial Plan
-    Cap State Spending and Freeze State Taxes
-    Freeze Salary Increases for State Workers
-    Property Tax Cap of 2% or Rate of Inflation

Rightsizing Government
-    Reorganizing the State's more than 1,000 Agencies
-    20% Reduction in State Agencies
-    Consolidate more than 10,500 Local Governments

New York Works Plan
-    A $3000 New Jobs Tax Credit
-    Reorganize Economic Development
-    Coordinated Regional Strategies Investing in Cluster Economies
-    Create a State Infrastructure Bank
-    Create High Tech Job Generators

New York Leads Agenda
-    Education, Environment, and Energy Policy
-    Substance Not Rhetoric
-    Reality-Based Proposals