NEW YORK
New York Daily News
KENNETH LOVETT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, June 13, 2016
ALBANY – With three days left in the state legislative session and their chances fading, advocates for a bill to make it easier for child sexual assault victims to seek justice are hoping for a miracle.
And they’ll need it.
Gov. Cuomo sent a letter to the Legislature Monday outlining six end-of-session issues he believes can be achieved – and the Child Victims Act was not among them. Allowing restaurants to sell booze on Sundays before noon, made the list as did improving safety at rail crossings, and ethics and campaign finance reform.
“It’s not in the letter, so obviously he’s not pushing for it,” Gary Greenberg, an upstate investor and a child sex abuse victim, said. “If he was, it would be in the letter. By not including it, the message to the Legislature is they don’t have to pass it.”
State lawmakers, meanwhile, have reached a tentative deal to allow bars and restaurants to begin selling liquor at 10 a.m. Sunday morning, sources told the Daily News.
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