Posted on 10/02/2010 6:26:51 AM PDT by Mr. K
ANDREW HAS BEEN PLAYING THE ALBANY GAME FOR 30 YEARS
Andrew Cuomo claims he'll clean up Albany - his hometown where he has played the Albany insiders game for decades.
First, as the brutal campaign manager for Mario Sr.'s governors election where he denigrated the Gay community. Later, as an advisor to his father in the Capitol where he bullied opponents daily with threats and hollow promises.
Now, as Attorney General, he takes campaign contributions from those he regulates and gives Democrat fat-cats a pass when they violate the law.
Clean up Albany? Start with Cuomo.
How can he clean-up what he has been a part of for 30 years
He is prime example of what we need to GET RID OF in Albany
Are you sure Cuomo is promising to “clean up Albany” or “clean up IN Albany”?
What a great ad/post on Palladino’s site. I like his bare knuckles approach. The Dems have been getting away with brutalizing Repubs for years, so it’s refreshing to see someone take it to the Dems. That pussywillow Cuomo doesn’t seem to be able to deal with it.
Paladino should discuss Cuomo’s screwing up of the housing market more than he does.
I agree 100%
Andrew Cuomo’s fingerprints are ALL OVER the housing meltdown
He’s using the same campaign tactics as Spitzer did. He’s running on name recognition...Dems don’t care how dirty their Reps are
Perfect ad-Two New Yorkers (average working guys) sitting in a diner drinking coffee. One, looking up at the TV, says "that's the Cuomo kids new ad" and the other guy snorts and says (as you suggested) "Clean up Albany or clean up in Albany?" they both laugh and go back to drinking their coffee.
8.Cuomo strides outside Housing to fight battles
BALTIMORE SUN | June 03, 2000 | By Susan Baer
Excerpt:
Cuomo’s most notorious continuing battle has been with his department’s inspector general. Since 1995, when Gaffney raised questions about a program run by Cuomo, who was then assistant HUD secretary, he has been trying to discredit her. Gaffney, in turn, has kept up a drumbeat of attacks. Generally praised by Democratic and Republican lawmakers as a by-the-book bureaucrat, Gaffney told Congress in 1998 that Cuomo “is uncomfortable with the concept of an independent inspector general who is not subject to his control.”
Even Cuomo’s fiercest fans say he is zealously concerned with control and image – in at least one case to the possible detriment of the taxpayers.
A Boston-based energy conservation company, run by two Democratic fund-raisers, brought a lawsuit against HUD in 1997 charging that the secretary wrongfully canceled a lucrative HUD contract after a Wall Street Journal article implied that the company won the contract through political connections. Even though the newspaper ran a correction three days later saying there was no evidence of impropriety, HUD officials told the principals it was canceling the contract because the Journal article “potentially creates the appearance of an impropriety.”
HUD admitted liability for canceling the contract (which would have saved the government millions in energy costs, the company contends). A judge is deciding whether the government must pay the $13.7 million in damages that Energy Capital Partners is seeking or the about $1 million that HUD lawyers argue the department owes.
The lawsuit paints an unflattering portrait of Cuomo, saying he threatened one of the Boston businessmen in an effort to get him to drop the suit, warning of “potential adverse ramifications to him and his business interests from any failure to do so.”
Cuomo’s admirers are resigned to the secretary’s tactics and personality as part of the package.
“His confrontational style doesn’t always get the best results on some of the smaller things,” says Harvey of the Enterprise Foundation. “But if that’s the price you have to pay for putting housing front and center, the rewards far outweigh some of the style issues.”
BUSINESSMEN WIN $8.8M IN SUIT AGAINST US UPSET THAT FEDERAL HOUSING OFFICIALS CANCELED CONTRACT
Boston Globe | Aug 24, 2000 | Peter J. Howe
Excerpts:
“Energy Capital said it will seek to recover millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees from HUD, citing the “bad faith misconduct of Secretary Cuomo,” who personally threatened Leventhal in February 1998 that he would harm his business unless he dropped the suit.”
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“Federal Claims Court Judge Edward J. Damich awarded Seigel and Leventhal’s company $8.8 million in lost profits, a ruling Damich acknowledged was rare in suits against the federal government.”
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Cuomo’s message to innocent unborn children.. “I’ll Take You Out”
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