ALBANY — Big business has Gov. Cuomo’s back.
The state’s business community took to the airwaves for the first time ever yesterday to promote a governor’s agenda and head off an anticipated wave of attack ads by big labor.
The introductory statewide TV ad campaign by the “Committee to Save New York,” which insiders estimate will cost about $800,000 a week, sticks largely to a positive message of support for Cuomo, who urged the group’s founding as a private-sector counterweight to the union-backed lobbying campaigns which have hobbled previous governors.
Ron Deustch of the union-backed New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness said the business group was primarily concerned with beating back union-led efforts to renew the state’s soon-to-expire surcharge on the wealthy.