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"We Just Want to Go Home"

 

 

NOTE: When Hurricane Sandy hit New York almost two years ago, thousands of New Yorkers saw their homes and possessions destroyed. Taxpayers opened their hearts and wallets to help New York families get back on their feet.

Twenty months later, families are still out of their homes. There's no money left for them.

But using money earmarked for Sandy victims, Governor Andrew Cuomo is airing election-year, feel-good television ads. Cuomo got special dispensation to use the money for the TV ads from -- wait for it -- the Washington agency he used to head, The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  

These ads feature real Hurricane Sandy families still in need. They are homeless, while Andrew Cuomo uses money meant for them to boost his poll numbers. That story needs to be told.

 

We are pleased to help them tell it.

 

--Rob Astorino for Governor