Auburn's hospital needs to be saved

It was recently announced that a lien was placed on the Auburn Memorial Hospital pension fund due to an outstanding ongoing pension fund deficit.

In light of this announcement, The Citizen asked me if I believed the $1 million state grant, which Assemblyman Gary Finch and I fought to secure, was in reality throwing good money after bad.

Absolutely not! I strongly view the $1 million state grant for Auburn Memorial Hospital as one of the single most important grants I have secured in my years of service to the Cayuga County community.