Carl Paladino’s former campaign manager Michael Caputo, a protege of political trickster Roger Stone, is mailing Tea-Party advocates urging them to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2 percent cap on local property taxes.

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget has come a long way since I first wrote you on January 31st. We won some battles for fiscal sanity and we lost some. But the Governor succeeded in passing an on-time balanced budget without tax hikes – quite an accomplishment in our dysfunctional state capital.

Caputo earlier today distributed a quote from Paladino supportive of the governor’s cap. The measure was approved in the Republican-led Senate, but faces a tougher time passing the Democratic-controlled Assembly.

In his letter, Caputo also touts the efforts to cut into the state’s Medicaid program, one of the costliest programs in the country. Paladino was able to ride a wave of Tea Party support in the Republican primary to surprisingly defeat former Rep. Rick Lazio last September.

Cuomo plans to travel the state in order to fire up voters on the cap, which already enjoys broad supporter, according to polls.

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