He said he thinks judges in the state’s legal system should be given the discretion, based on a standard of dangerousness and flight risk, to remand a criminal defendant to jail when necessary, something he said is impossible under the current laws. Wilson also has a plan to address crime in New York, which he said has been skyrocketing in cities and towns statewide for years.įirstly, his plan calls for an end to cashless bail as passed by the state legislature in 2019. Wilson said there are many points to his plan, which include reforming the Joint Committee on Public Ethics to separate it from the politicians who currently appoint its membership, and lowering the barriers for candidates to appear on the ballot in New York in the first place. “Right now, there are more independents than there are Republicans in this state, and they don’t have a voice about who the ultimate candidates are going to be,” he said. He also believes that New York should move to an open primary system, in which voters can participate in either party’s primary election based on their preferences that year. He said he is hopeful the redistricting process will lead to less gerrymandering in the legislature and hopefully more competitive races between Democrats and Republicans. Wilson has a wider plan for addressing the partisanship in Albany as well. Wilson said he would take a start-from-zero approach, as he has done with the companies he has restructured over the years, to work out the best ways to finance the programs New Yorkers need, and remove the ones they don’t. “I do not want to let services suffer, or people to suffer, but we have to have a budget that works,” he said. To avoid shutting down the government, Wilson said he would employ continuing resolutions, carrying over departmental budgets for the agencies that need to keep running during budget debates. He promised to deliver a budget with the largest tax cut in state history, and while he said he would negotiate that in good faith, he pledged to be uncompromising on cutting state spending. “There’s no way they’re going to say yes to my budget.” “The way the process works, if the legislature doesn’t pass a budget by March 31, they don’t get paid until they pass it,” he said. Wilson said that’s an easy tool to employ under state law. In campaign ads, Wilson has promised to withhold payment for state legislators until they approve his budget proposal, which would cut billions from Medicaid, emergency COVID-19 funds and economic development initiatives. Wilson said, if elected, he would use the governor’s power in the budget process to force the state government to pare down its multi-billion dollar spending plan, which he said is massively outsized compared to the size of New York state.
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