Rick Karlin writes in the Times Union - “Now that the budget is completed, Gov. David Paterson says he wants to focus on passing a property tax cap.

That item has passed with bipartisan support in the Senate on several occasions — including Tuesday’s climactic budget-closing session, in which Democrats and Republicans supported the measure 52-7.

But a cap on school and local property taxes is unlikely to get off the ground in the Assembly, where a critical mass of lawmakers hails from New York City — and where property taxes aren’t the overwhelming issue that they are in the suburbs.

On Wednesday morning, Paterson said he’ll call legislators back to Albany in October to vote on the tax cap.

“Even if the Legislature comes back in October and (the Assembly) refuses to put the property tax cap bill on the floor, I think the public has the right to know where everybody stands, even if they don’t stand at all,” Paterson said during a phone conference about completion of the approximately $136 billion budget.”

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