October 23, 2009

 

CANTON---An upstate New York county clerk is carrying out an on-line petition drive to thwart Governor David Paterson's plan to require all New Yorkers to purchase new license plates next April.
     St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie says it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want when they are being battered by the ongoing recession. The price of a new plate would be $10 more.
     The governor's office says the new licenses could make $129 million for the state, which has a projected budget deficit next year nearing $5 billion. The legislature last spring approved the license plate plan.