Gov says he won’t bend on gas tax
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- May
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Gov. David Paterson said today that he would not give in to pressure from Republicans to give the state a sales tax “holiday” between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Although the Senate Republican Majority said its bill authorizes anti-price-gouging penalties for gas station owners and gas distributors that don’t pass along the savings, Paterson said there is no guarantee that would happen. The Senate bill calls for suspending about 32 cents per gallon in state taxes.
The governor, speaking at a news conference in New York City, said he was taking responsibility for the issue by doing nothing.
“Sometimes nothing is a cool hand,” he said, referring to the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke.
The Democrat-controlled Assembly has refused to pass a gas-tax holiday bill.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
