By Desiree Jackson
Rob Astorino on Tuesday agreed wholeheartly with Governor Cuomo.
Mario Cuomo, that is.
The Republican challenger for the seat in Albany now occupied by Andrew Cuomo voiced this agreement at an Upper East Side press conference where he called for the city not to renew a permit that would transfer a solid waste station to 91st Street and York Avenue.
“Well then I finally agree with a Cuomo. Mario Cuomo is correct on this then,” he said, citing the ex-governor’s public opposition to the relocation of a dumping site to a heavily populated area.
Meanwhile Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a stand on the move that was first proposed in 2006 during the Bloomberg Administration.
“This in and of itself is five times more expensive than the current solution of trucking the garbage from here in Manhattan into New Jersey which is used without any compalints,” Astorino said of the waste plan.
The Westchester Republican disparaged the notion that Manhattan does not want to take responsibility for it’s own waste., arguing that Superstorn Sandy as a game-changer.
“New conditions have arisen since” Sandy, he insisted. “And let’s look at that area for what it could be and not what they’re trying to make it, which is a city dump populated area.
There have not been any new permits for the projects issued, while the one’s that exist are still set to put the plan in motion.
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