Creating Jobs and Spurring Economic Development

Jane Corwin has over two decades of personal experience creating jobs in Western New York, and throughout the Northeast. As the Ranking Member of the Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, Jane continues to advocate for the regulatory reform and tax and fee reductions that employers need not only to create new job opportunities but to stay afloat in today’s difficult economy.

Jane knows that in order to ensure economic growth, both now and for our children’s future, we must truly change the way our state does business.  We need to create a new culture in Albany that can compete with other states and offer employers a lower cost for doing business.   

How do we do this? First and foremost, we must reduce New York’s notoriously high cost of doing business by ensuring companies have accessible and maintained infrastructure, reliable and affordable energy; addressing runaway healthcare costs; and cutting the ever-increasing list of government-imposed mandates, taxes and fees that drive current and potential employers out of state.

That is why Jane also is working in conjunction with the governor’s Regional Economic Development Councils, and through her role as the Chair of the Assembly Republican Steering Committee, to identify and promote job-creating projects as well as to reform the status quo in Albany.

Controlling State Spending

Jane Corwin is proud to have helped deliver the first on-time state budget, which reduced state spending without incurring new debt or imposing new taxes, in more than 20 years. Although the 2011 legislative sessions reached a number of landmarks, it was only the start on the long road to economic recovery, stability and culture change in New York State. 

Recognizing her efforts to reform the broken status quo, Governor Cuomo appointed Jane as the only Assembly Republican to serve on his Spend and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission. Through SAGE, Jane has helped identify more than $600 million in savings for taxpayers – and her work is not yet done.

Both through SAGE and her role as a member of the Task Force on Joint Advisory Board on Broadcast of State Government Proceedings, Jane is working to make our state government more cost-efficient and effective at meeting the needs of the people who fund it.

 Putting an End to Bullying

Like most parents in Western New York – and across the nation – Jane Corwin is very concerned about the impact of school- and cyber-bullying on our children. As the mother of three growing teenagers, and as our voice in the State Assembly, Jane is drawing the line on bullies. She helped pass state legislation that begins to address the new crimes of cyber-bullying and she is working with local officials to tackle bullying in Western New York communities.  Jane is proud to author original state legislation that specifically addresses bullying in schools, so our children can learn in a safe and positive environment.

Putting the People First: Constitutional Convention

Any New Yorker, who has ever filed for a permit or license or tried to start a business, already knows that the size of the bureaucracy and reach of our government has expanded to such an extraordinary degree; it no longer serves the people of this state. 

The same is true for the legislative process, which, despite recent reforms, is still overwhelmingly influenced by downstate special interests and still dictated by Albany’s “three men in a room.”

A “people’s,” or constitutional, convention is an opportunity that comes once every 20 years and allows everyday citizens to take the legislative process into their own hands. Historically, constitutional conventions in New York State have been held approximately every two decades since 1777 until the last convention was held in 1967. While the next constitutional convention referendum will be automatically placed on the ballot in 2017, Jane Corwin knows we cannot wait to take back the future of our state.

That is why she is co-sponsoring legislation, Assembly bill 1262, to place a referendum on this year’s ballot and continuing her work with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb to advance the People’s Convention proposal throughout the state and the legislature.