ALBANY — Gov. David Paterson, who had sought legislative action on a $3.2 billion deficit for weeks, now says he doesn’t expect any action on Tuesday, the latest target date.

The Democrat also tells The Associated Press that he will continue to compel the Legislature back to Albany until it approves spending cuts and any new revenue sources or “stands up” to vote his proposal down so voters can see where each lawmaker stands.

He blames a lack of action on some “irresponsible” lawmakers in both parties.

Earlier, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Carl Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat, says the state “absolutely” won’t run out of money as Paterson claims without cuts to spending in a deficit reduction plan.

“I’d rather hear what Freddy Krueger thinks to be honest with you,” Paterson said, referring to the horror movie character. “For them to even say it is irresponsible bordering on malevolence.”

He said Kruger’s comment, supported by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, and Kruger’s call for collecting cigarette taxes on Indian territory were irresponsible.

“Is this really more distraction politics? The naked political act of trying to fool people when you should be working to solve these problems?” Paterson said in an interview.

Kruger wasn’t speaking for Senate Conference Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn, who remained in negotiations with Paterson.

Sampson has been trying to present a unified position in the face of factions such as the one led by Kruger and the upstate and Long Island coalitions, which on Saturday declared they would block Paterson’s call for any midyear school aid cuts.

Kruger on Monday served Paterson with a letter as part of Kruger’s news conference to push for enforcement of taxation laws on sovereign Indian land.

Kruger said the measure would provide $135 million to the state “virtually overnight” and up to $1.6 billion in tax revenue over the next 12 months. He threatened to subpoena records from the governor’s office to prove it, but the governor’s office says the records have already been provided.

He notes a court has said non-Indians purchasing cigarettes from Indian-owned stores and the Legislature has repeatedly voted to have the executive branch collect what is usually estimated at hundreds of millions a dollars in lost revenue.

“That’s collectible, that’s cash,” Kruger said.

Govs. George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and, so far, David Paterson have declined to collect the tax as they seek to negotiate a solution that would avoid the violence of a previous attempt in the 1990s.

He and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat, said the governor must collect the tax from manufacturers before they supply Indian stores and Internet sites which account for a large part of sales nationwide. Tribes, the Seneca Nation principally, cite several treaties that show they are exempt from taxation by state government because they are sovereign.

Kruger and Diaz seek the collection to avoid cuts to social services for children, the elderly and the sick.

“We have been suggesting solutions, no one wants to deal with that,” Diaz said.

Diaz, Kruger and Espada were part of “three amigos” who have flirted this year with siding with Republicans to cost the Democrats their 32-30 majority.

Paterson said no state ever collected even half of Kruger’s estimate.

Paterson spokesman Peter Kauffmann called it “imaginary revenue” that won’t close the deficit.

“At best, it’s illusory and undignified,” said Republican Sen. Stephen Saland of Poughkeepsie.

Outside the Finance Committee, where no deficit reduction deal was reached, Diaz held up a sign using a print of the state’s newest license plate. It read: “A-FIASCO.”