Josh Riley: “I just introduced bipartisan legislation to stop utility companies from paying bonuses to their CEOs. This bipartisan…”

“I just introduced bipartisan legislation to stop utility companies from paying bonuses to their CEOs. This bipartisan bill is for folks in upstate New York working hard to pay their bills and raise their families. They are good, honest people who are sick and tired of being screwed over, ripped off, and left behind in an economy that is rigged against them. There is a retired nurse in Endicott raising her grandkids on a fixed income, and right now she is trying to decide between the NYSEG bill and the toys on the kids' Santa list. There is a senior in Cochecton who stopped taking her prescriptions because she can't afford the meds and the NYSEG bill. There is a public schoolteacher in Ithaca who had to pick up a second job to make ends meet and still worries about losing her home this winter. While these families are scraping by, the foreign-owned utility monopolies are jacking up rates again and doling out millions of dollars to CEOs sitting in boardrooms halfway around the world. Enough is enough. My bipartisan bill says we are not going to take it anymore. We are not going to let you take money out of our pockets to line the pockets of corporate executives in Spain.”