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(24:36)
Those my friends, are the immediate issues for our focus, crushing COVID and the short-term economic consequences for our state. But that’s just the beginning for us. As this room reminds us after the war is when the reconstruction begins and in the reconstruction is when progress is truly made. We must plan and start our post-COVID war reconstruction now to seize the advantage. And I will be outlining initiatives to do just that over the coming days. The truth is, we cannot stay closed until everyone is vaccinated. The economic, psychological, emotional cost would be incredible. We must begin increasing economic activity and using science to do it, making COVID testing and vaccinations available so that we can reopen restaurants and art spaces and theaters and commercial businesses. We just tested the concept with the Buffalo Bills playoff game and early indications are that it was a great success.
(25:52)
We must also aggressively plan for the post-COVID economic opportunities. How do we adjust to the new world dynamics? Our reimagined commission has been identifying those opportunities and telemedicine, broadband and workforce retraining. We also need to jumpstart the economy now. We will commence the most aggressive construction and transportation development program in the United States of America. New air, road and rail systems, upstate and downstate, more affordable housing and more economic development to create jobs, jobs, and more jobs.
(26:33)
FDR, a great governor of the state of New York and president set the precedent and New York State knows how to get things done and New York State knows how to build. We’ve proved it over and over and over again and now is the time to do it. We will also expand the infrastructure of tomorrow. The infrastructure of tomorrow is our broadband system. Today, broadband discriminates by race and income. We have invested $500 million to successfully expand broadband access and 98% of the state now has access to broadband. But New York will also lead the nation now in making broadband affordable, because accessibility is not enough if it’s not affordable and because without affordable broadband, people are not just disconnected, they are disenfranchised. Broadband must be available to everyone everywhere and in New York we will make sure it is
(27:49)
We will then launch the most aggressive green economy program in the country. COVID is the existing threat, but climate change is the existential threat. New York will be the green energy capital of the world. We will not only construct renewable projects, we will develop manufacturing capacity, research and development expertise, and state of the art worker retraining all here in New York and we will do it this year. We will then set our sights to repair our social infrastructure. And that starts with our fundamental responsibility as a society and as a government to ensure public safety.
(28:34)
Last year exposed the tensions between the community and the police more starkly than ever before. This is a national crisis. Feelings are deep and complex. Emotions run high on both sides, but divorce is not an option. We all need an effective public safety function. It’s not just the question of criminal justice, but also social, economic and racial justice. We have a scourge of gun violence. The victims of crime are predominantly poor, black and Latino. In New York City in the last six months of 2020, there were over 1,200 shootings, double, double from 2019. Of those shootings, 94% involved blacks or Latino victims. And well under half have been solved. There can be no economic revival without effective public safety. This is especially true for our cities. If the attractions of a city are reduced and crime is increased, urban decline is inevitable. That point has been made over and over again through the economic cycles in our cities and we will not allow it to happen again.
(30:06)
Public safety, like so many other functions must adapt to the times. There are many new questions to answer. Does every 911 call require an armed police officer to respond? What role should mental health and domestic violence professionals play in public safety? What is the transparency and disciplinary policy? What is the use of force policy? But some elements are absolute. Mutual respect is absolute. Individual rights are absolute. Rejecting brutality is absolute. Allowing police to do their job and do it safely is absolute. But for most issues, there is no top-down solution, one size fits all approach. We have 500 communities with police departments in New York, and each one must develop an approach that works for them. Now I have said that each community must redesign public safety in a collaborative process, include all stakeholders, all opinions, all voices. Have the conversation, and then they must pass a law instituting a new public safety function, and they must do it by April in order to receive state funding.
(31:32)
This is an imperative for the state and every community within the state. Now, many communities have seized the opportunity and are already making good progress. In Steuben and Ulster counties citizens and officials are using listening sessions and surveys to increase participation. Syracuse launched the citizen dashboard to track development and implementation of each reform. Schenectady has created a Diverse Citizen Advisory Panel to help evaluate new applicants for the police force. Yonkers is developing a new policy for dealing with people who are mentally, emotionally disturbed. Binghamton enlisted a professional institution to help in their redesign. And Salamanca has the distinction of being the first locality to complete and pass a new plan. April 1 is just weeks away. Elected leaders must lead and people must engage now. Reforming public safety is hard, but in life we will never solve a problem that we refuse to acknowledge, or for which we deny reality and responsibility. Problems don’t just go away. They mount. This is a national crisis that New York will lead. We will also set the bar higher.
(33:03)
… but New York will lead. We will also set the bar higher for our post-COVID war reconstruction. The damage to repair is not just from COVID. The low tide in America has exposed fundamental schisms and flaws in our society. Now we have seen the riptides building over these past few years. We saw the racism in the KKK parading on the streets in Charlottesville, we lived through the anti-Semitism and the shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue and across the country, the distrust exploding after the George Floyd killing and last week, we all watched in horror an attempted coup at the Capitol. These demons may not be new, but they are worse. Visionaries that have had the ability to see beneath the surface of America have long warned of the ugly reality below. Governor Mario Cuomo spoke of the danger of two Americas 40 years ago, but the low tide has exposed the ugliness for all to see.
(34:24)
Today, there is no denying the injustice and rhetoric is not the solution. The public is tired of unfilled political promises. Results are the solution. Doing justice is the solution, true justice, racial justice, social justice, economic justice and that must be New York’s banner to carry in America’s post-COVID reconstruction. Let’s tell the plain truth. Blacks died from COVID at twice the rate of whites. That’s the truth. Latinos died at one and a half times the rate of whites. That’s the truth. Education divided by race and class as remote learning further the divide. That’s the truth. We saw the lack of access to affordable childcare disrupt low income families and force caregivers, primarily women, to choose between putting food on the table and caring for their children. That’s the truth. We have thousands of tenants and owners who lost their jobs and livelihoods through no fault of their own and we will not leave them behind.
(35:38)
We will provide them the resources they need for rent and mortgage relief to keep New Yorkers in their homes. And that’s the truth. And New York must do more to protect homeowners and tenants by prohibiting penalties and late charges on past rent. Many small businesses have been decimated by COVID and we must protect them from eviction and help them reopen and restart. The pandemic has illustrated, once again, that health care must be affordable for all. And I propose this year, we eliminate premiums for 400,000 more low income New Yorkers. Our new Americans have suffered mightily from increased discrimination over these past few years. We must ensure all immigrants are protected and have legal counsel by fully funding our Liberty Defense Project. We see undocumented New York families struggling to survive with no financial assistance. The federal government should provide these undocumented New Yorkers with hardship funding and if they don’t, they should at least allow New York state to do it.
(36:54)
We have seen elections determined weeks after election day. This fuels distrust in our system. We must pass a law mandating boards of election perform professional, accurate, timely, and complete counts. The housing problem in our cities has gotten worse, but, but the crisis of growing vacancies in our commercial property provides an opportunity. We should convert vacant commercial space to supportive and affordable housing and we should do it now. Take the negative and make it a positive. Homeless shelters must be available, safe and secure. It’s not just our moral obligation, it is our legal obligation. My friends, rest assured we can see the future and it is bright. We just have to get from here to there and that’s what we need together, to do together. The old saying is true, fortune favors the bold.
(38:02)
Well, this is another once in a lifetime opportunity. America must seize this moment of international transformation. Some countries will succeed and some will fail. Some regions will rise and some will fall. But this is a moment that is made for New Yorkers. This will be a moment to re-imagine, reinvent and recreate. Life is about change and growth. Will we restore what we had? No, but neither should we try. Life is about moving forward and enlightened society learns from its challenges, makes adjustments and forges ahead better than before. That is the New York story. That is our destiny. And I am confident and optimistic that we can do this and my confidence is not uninformed or wishful or blind optimism. My confidence is born from experience. I know how difficult our challenge is going to be. I know the height of the mountain. I hear the naysayers.
(39:18)
I hear the hatemongers. I hear the voices of doubt and insecurity. I hear the fears of those without the confidence to build or the vision to dream. But I know who we are and what we can do and I know what we have done. Do you remember last spring? Do you remember what New Yorkers did in their darkest hour? I hope so because I will never forget it. When COVID ambushed New York and we went from one case to hundreds of cases in a matter of days, when sirens filled the night stillness and mass graves were dug on Hart Island, when fear gripped New Yorkers like a vice, when the global experts told us there was no way we could slow spread, but New Yorkers said, yes, we could and yes, we would and they wouldn’t give up. And New Yorkers united and they rose to the occasion. That is New York at her best. That is the New York miracle. Time and again, we have heard the voices of doubt and defeat. “The state can’t do a budget on time. We can’t enact common sense gun safety. We can’t pass marriage equality. We can’t raise the minimum wage. We can’t fix subway tunnels. We can’t build a new Tappan Zee Bridge. We can’t turn around the Buffalo economy. We can’t end the AIDS epidemic. We can’t provide free college tuition for the middle-class. We can’t construct a new Penn Train Hall.” They were wrong. We did. We can’t only if we believe we can’t. That is what we mean when we say New York tough. The understanding that there are moments that actually liberate our capacity and potential, when the little strings that hold down the giant that is New York are torn away, when incompetent government is overpowered by the competence of good people, when petty divisions give way to the power of unity, when self doubt is overcome by self-confidence, when the voices of our better angels win the day.
(41:43)
We have seen this over the past year, that ordinary New Yorkers, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, train operators, teachers, construction workers, food clerks are not ordinary in any, but rather extraordinary in every way. Over the last year, when forces were trying to convince this country that the strongest four letter word is hate, New York showed that the strongest four letter word is love and that love wins every time. There is an indomitable power in our New York credo, the strength of one people, black, white, brown, Asian, upstate, downstate, straight and gay, all pulling in one direction, it is unbeatable, undeniable and undebatable. We say it now our state seal in just three simple, beautiful words, E Pluribus Unum, out of many one, and we know the direction we are all headed. We are all headed up. It is our state motto Excelsior, ever upwards.
(42:55)
New York state is the state of aspiration and excellence. That is New York’s legacy. That’s what made us the progressive Capitol of the nation. We have done this throughout history. We did it last year when times were tough and we will do it again this year and New York will lead the way. Thank you and God bless you.
(24:36)
Those my friends, are the immediate issues for our focus, crushing COVID and the short-term economic consequences for our state. But that’s just the beginning for us. As this room reminds us after the war is when the reconstruction begins and in the reconstruction is when progress is truly made. We must plan and start our post-COVID war reconstruction now to seize the advantage. And I will be outlining initiatives to do just that over the coming days. The truth is, we cannot stay closed until everyone is vaccinated. The economic, psychological, emotional cost would be incredible. We must begin increasing economic activity and using science to do it, making COVID testing and vaccinations available so that we can reopen restaurants and art spaces and theaters and commercial businesses. We just tested the concept with the Buffalo Bills playoff game and early indications are that it was a great success.
(25:52)
We must also aggressively plan for the post-COVID economic opportunities. How do we adjust to the new world dynamics? Our reimagined commission has been identifying those opportunities and telemedicine, broadband and workforce retraining. We also need to jumpstart the economy now. We will commence the most aggressive construction and transportation development program in the United States of America. New air, road and rail systems, upstate and downstate, more affordable housing and more economic development to create jobs, jobs, and more jobs.
(26:33)
FDR, a great governor of the state of New York and president set the precedent and New York State knows how to get things done and New York State knows how to build. We’ve proved it over and over and over again and now is the time to do it. We will also expand the infrastructure of tomorrow. The infrastructure of tomorrow is our broadband system. Today, broadband discriminates by race and income. We have invested $500 million to successfully expand broadband access and 98% of the state now has access to broadband. But New York will also lead the nation now in making broadband affordable, because accessibility is not enough if it’s not affordable and because without affordable broadband, people are not just disconnected, they are disenfranchised. Broadband must be available to everyone everywhere and in New York we will make sure it is
(27:49)
We will then launch the most aggressive green economy program in the country. COVID is the existing threat, but climate change is the existential threat. New York will be the green energy capital of the world. We will not only construct renewable projects, we will develop manufacturing capacity, research and development expertise, and state of the art worker retraining all here in New York and we will do it this year. We will then set our sights to repair our social infrastructure. And that starts with our fundamental responsibility as a society and as a government to ensure public safety.
(28:34)
Last year exposed the tensions between the community and the police more starkly than ever before. This is a national crisis. Feelings are deep and complex. Emotions run high on both sides, but divorce is not an option. We all need an effective public safety function. It’s not just the question of criminal justice, but also social, economic and racial justice. We have a scourge of gun violence. The victims of crime are predominantly poor, black and Latino. In New York City in the last six months of 2020, there were over 1,200 shootings, double, double from 2019. Of those shootings, 94% involved blacks or Latino victims. And well under half have been solved. There can be no economic revival without effective public safety. This is especially true for our cities. If the attractions of a city are reduced and crime is increased, urban decline is inevitable. That point has been made over and over again through the economic cycles in our cities and we will not allow it to happen again.
(30:06)
Public safety, like so many other functions must adapt to the times. There are many new questions to answer. Does every 911 call require an armed police officer to respond? What role should mental health and domestic violence professionals play in public safety? What is the transparency and disciplinary policy? What is the use of force policy? But some elements are absolute. Mutual respect is absolute. Individual rights are absolute. Rejecting brutality is absolute. Allowing police to do their job and do it safely is absolute. But for most issues, there is no top-down solution, one size fits all approach. We have 500 communities with police departments in New York, and each one must develop an approach that works for them. Now I have said that each community must redesign public safety in a collaborative process, include all stakeholders, all opinions, all voices. Have the conversation, and then they must pass a law instituting a new public safety function, and they must do it by April in order to receive state funding.
(31:32)
This is an imperative for the state and every community within the state. Now, many communities have seized the opportunity and are already making good progress. In Steuben and Ulster counties citizens and officials are using listening sessions and surveys to increase participation. Syracuse launched the citizen dashboard to track development and implementation of each reform. Schenectady has created a Diverse Citizen Advisory Panel to help evaluate new applicants for the police force. Yonkers is developing a new policy for dealing with people who are mentally, emotionally disturbed. Binghamton enlisted a professional institution to help in their redesign. And Salamanca has the distinction of being the first locality to complete and pass a new plan. April 1 is just weeks away. Elected leaders must lead and people must engage now. Reforming public safety is hard, but in life we will never solve a problem that we refuse to acknowledge, or for which we deny reality and responsibility. Problems don’t just go away. They mount. This is a national crisis that New York will lead. We will also set the bar higher.
(33:03)
… but New York will lead. We will also set the bar higher for our post-COVID war reconstruction. The damage to repair is not just from COVID. The low tide in America has exposed fundamental schisms and flaws in our society. Now we have seen the riptides building over these past few years. We saw the racism in the KKK parading on the streets in Charlottesville, we lived through the anti-Semitism and the shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue and across the country, the distrust exploding after the George Floyd killing and last week, we all watched in horror an attempted coup at the Capitol. These demons may not be new, but they are worse. Visionaries that have had the ability to see beneath the surface of America have long warned of the ugly reality below. Governor Mario Cuomo spoke of the danger of two Americas 40 years ago, but the low tide has exposed the ugliness for all to see.
(34:24)
Today, there is no denying the injustice and rhetoric is not the solution. The public is tired of unfilled political promises. Results are the solution. Doing justice is the solution, true justice, racial justice, social justice, economic justice and that must be New York’s banner to carry in America’s post-COVID reconstruction. Let’s tell the plain truth. Blacks died from COVID at twice the rate of whites. That’s the truth. Latinos died at one and a half times the rate of whites. That’s the truth. Education divided by race and class as remote learning further the divide. That’s the truth. We saw the lack of access to affordable childcare disrupt low income families and force caregivers, primarily women, to choose between putting food on the table and caring for their children. That’s the truth. We have thousands of tenants and owners who lost their jobs and livelihoods through no fault of their own and we will not leave them behind.
(35:38)
We will provide them the resources they need for rent and mortgage relief to keep New Yorkers in their homes. And that’s the truth. And New York must do more to protect homeowners and tenants by prohibiting penalties and late charges on past rent. Many small businesses have been decimated by COVID and we must protect them from eviction and help them reopen and restart. The pandemic has illustrated, once again, that health care must be affordable for all. And I propose this year, we eliminate premiums for 400,000 more low income New Yorkers. Our new Americans have suffered mightily from increased discrimination over these past few years. We must ensure all immigrants are protected and have legal counsel by fully funding our Liberty Defense Project. We see undocumented New York families struggling to survive with no financial assistance. The federal government should provide these undocumented New Yorkers with hardship funding and if they don’t, they should at least allow New York state to do it.
(36:54)
We have seen elections determined weeks after election day. This fuels distrust in our system. We must pass a law mandating boards of election perform professional, accurate, timely, and complete counts. The housing problem in our cities has gotten worse, but, but the crisis of growing vacancies in our commercial property provides an opportunity. We should convert vacant commercial space to supportive and affordable housing and we should do it now. Take the negative and make it a positive. Homeless shelters must be available, safe and secure. It’s not just our moral obligation, it is our legal obligation. My friends, rest assured we can see the future and it is bright. We just have to get from here to there and that’s what we need together, to do together. The old saying is true, fortune favors the bold.
(38:02)
Well, this is another once in a lifetime opportunity. America must seize this moment of international transformation. Some countries will succeed and some will fail. Some regions will rise and some will fall. But this is a moment that is made for New Yorkers. This will be a moment to re-imagine, reinvent and recreate. Life is about change and growth. Will we restore what we had? No, but neither should we try. Life is about moving forward and enlightened society learns from its challenges, makes adjustments and forges ahead better than before. That is the New York story. That is our destiny. And I am confident and optimistic that we can do this and my confidence is not uninformed or wishful or blind optimism. My confidence is born from experience. I know how difficult our challenge is going to be. I know the height of the mountain. I hear the naysayers.
(39:18)
I hear the hatemongers. I hear the voices of doubt and insecurity. I hear the fears of those without the confidence to build or the vision to dream. But I know who we are and what we can do and I know what we have done. Do you remember last spring? Do you remember what New Yorkers did in their darkest hour? I hope so because I will never forget it. When COVID ambushed New York and we went from one case to hundreds of cases in a matter of days, when sirens filled the night stillness and mass graves were dug on Hart Island, when fear gripped New Yorkers like a vice, when the global experts told us there was no way we could slow spread, but New Yorkers said, yes, we could and yes, we would and they wouldn’t give up. And New Yorkers united and they rose to the occasion. That is New York at her best. That is the New York miracle. Time and again, we have heard the voices of doubt and defeat. “The state can’t do a budget on time. We can’t enact common sense gun safety. We can’t pass marriage equality. We can’t raise the minimum wage. We can’t fix subway tunnels. We can’t build a new Tappan Zee Bridge. We can’t turn around the Buffalo economy. We can’t end the AIDS epidemic. We can’t provide free college tuition for the middle-class. We can’t construct a new Penn Train Hall.” They were wrong. We did. We can’t only if we believe we can’t. That is what we mean when we say New York tough. The understanding that there are moments that actually liberate our capacity and potential, when the little strings that hold down the giant that is New York are torn away, when incompetent government is overpowered by the competence of good people, when petty divisions give way to the power of unity, when self doubt is overcome by self-confidence, when the voices of our better angels win the day.
(41:43)
We have seen this over the past year, that ordinary New Yorkers, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, train operators, teachers, construction workers, food clerks are not ordinary in any, but rather extraordinary in every way. Over the last year, when forces were trying to convince this country that the strongest four letter word is hate, New York showed that the strongest four letter word is love and that love wins every time. There is an indomitable power in our New York credo, the strength of one people, black, white, brown, Asian, upstate, downstate, straight and gay, all pulling in one direction, it is unbeatable, undeniable and undebatable. We say it now our state seal in just three simple, beautiful words, E Pluribus Unum, out of many one, and we know the direction we are all headed. We are all headed up. It is our state motto Excelsior, ever upwards.
(42:55)
New York state is the state of aspiration and excellence. That is New York’s legacy. That’s what made us the progressive Capitol of the nation. We have done this throughout history. We did it last year when times were tough and we will do it again this year and New York will lead the way. Thank you and God bless you.
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