ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made the first strike in the fight over his budget proposal with an attack on the special interests that will try to get the Legislature to block his spending cuts.

In a video address available by e-mail, satellite TV stations and You Tube, Cuomo says Wednesday he won’t be intimidated as past governors have been in the face of multimillion dollar TV campaigns used against them.

The targets are public work unions facing as many as 9,000 layoffs, teachers unions facing a historic cut in school aid and hospitals facing deep Medicaid cuts. All have successfully blunted similar budget actions by Govs. David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer and George Pataki.

But Cuomo says the net cuts in most areas of spending will be no more than 2 percent to 3 percent.