Senate Republicans Start Online STAR Petition
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After failing to get the property-tax rebate checks restored in the 2009-10 state budget, Senate Republicans have started an online petition—www.iwantmystarcheck.com—to push Democrats in control of state government to restore the checks, which average about $385 a household.
Said Sen. Joseph Robach, R-Greece, Monroe County: “”At a time when families and seniors are making sacrifices to make ends meet, the last thing we should be doing is cutting a source of relief for these citizens. Taking these checks away is yet another example of how the issues pertinent to Upstate New York are being ignored by the state’s downstate leadership.”
Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, is pushing to restore the rebate checks, but he has been rebuked by Gov. David Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, who said the state doesn’t have the $1.7 billion to restore the checks.
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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. 
