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ASTORINO PLEDGES TO ELIMINATE NON-ESSENTIAL"PRIVATE-USE" CARS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT

 

Calls on Andy Spano to Release List of  Taxpayer-Funded "Perk" Cars Now in Use

 

White Plains, NY-April 22 Westchester County Executive candidate Rob Astorino, who is running for County Executive to reduce the tax load on Westchester families by consolidating government and eliminating waste, today pledged that he will end the practice of handing out taxpayer-funded "perk cars"-and gas to go along with them-to staff members and political appointees.  

Mr. Astorino said he will establish a zero-baseline policy on taxpayer-funded vehicles: No one gets one unless he or she can prove an essential government need.

"Taxpayer-funded vehicles have become perks in County government and it has to stop," Mr. Astorino said. "Westchester residents are having enough trouble making their own gas and car payments to have to foot the bill for Mr. Spano's friends and deputies.   Perk cars are yet another example of County government running amok with our money."

 

Mr. Astorino called upon County Executive Spano for a full accounting of how many cars are now being taken home each day by county employees.

 

"This administration has a history of hiding information from the public, only making it available when forced to by law." Mr. Astorino continued. "It shouldn't take a Freedom of Information Law request to ascertain how Mr. Spano is spending our money. The public deserves to know how many perk cars they are paying for and why each of those vehicles is needed."