Posted on 06/29/2015 5:54:24 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Who's afraid of Mayor Bill de Blasio in Albany?
Not state Senate Republicans, who denied his request for permanent mayoral control of New York City schools, granting him one year instead.
Not Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who didn't deny he and his team were the unnamed officials in news reports who belittled the mayor as "incompetent" and clueless on influencing the legislative process.
Not advocates for charter schools, who won a lifting of a cap for new schools over de Blasio's opposition in the three-way agreement last week among Cuomo, state Senate Republicans and the Democrat-led state Assembly.
"There isn't a fear factor with Bill. There is a fear factor with Andrew," political consultant George Arzt said. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
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Short Man’s Syndrome
Communists aren’t known for their finesse in “influencing the legislative process.”
When they are unable to execute or imprison their opponents, they usually “come up short.”
They have much more success influencing the election process, however. Hence the expression “one man, one vote, one time.”
He so needs to be a one term Mayor.
This is surprising. I wonder if the fact that the law is closing in on Cuomo for misdeeds in NYS. His tenure at HUD alone should have landed him in the State Penn., but he skated.
Beyond that, Albany must know DeBlasio is an albatross around the Empire State’s neck. NYS can handle on one Communist at a time and survive.
Based on what DeBlasio ran on, as his platform, I still cannot believe that any thinking city would elect him.
Only 24% of the eligible electorate actually voted in the last mayoral election. That is why this imbecile won.
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