With dozens of independent service station owners behind him New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. urged Governor Paterson to sign into law a bill passed in the senate and assembly to protect the small business owners from giant oil refiners trying to establishing distribution monopolies. Several owners testified that the service stations they lease have been local family businesses that give back to the communities they serve, some for generations. Now the big oil refiners want to do away with the independent retailers, and have so called company owned stations instead to increase the cost to the consumer.
When it came to the question and answer period afterwards Senator Espada said that he would only answer questions on the budget or on the subject of today's press conference. When Channel Two News reporter Marcia Krammer tried to ask the Senator Espada a political question, he was lead to a waiting car by staff members that then drove away.
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