Posted on 01/26/2009 3:02:51 PM PST by neverdem
Governor Paterson tried to show he's listening today by cancelling one bad idea -- the tax-payer-financed junket he'd planned to the glitzy World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
But the poor guy can't catch a break: A new poll has his would-be rival, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, just two points behind him in a potential pimary contest -- a big catch-up for Cuomo who was trailing the gov by 23 percent just last month.
The Siena Research Institute survey also found that most New Yorkers dislike Paterson's nibble taxes -- the added levies he seeks on fattening drinks, movie tickets, and music downloads. At the same time, two-thirds of New Yorkers think the governor should ask wealthier taxpayers -- those earning $250,000 and above -- to shell out more in taxes to help meet the budget crunch.
Overall, respondents still view Paterson favorably -- 60-23 percent. But his job performance numbers fell to a 51-45 rating, down from 55-40 last month. Only 32 percent of voters, including 40 percent of Democrats, say they're ready to elect him in 2010. Thirty-six percent would prefer someone else.
"Governor Paterson has taken a significant hit with voters in the last month and the question is whether this is a blip or the start of a trend," said Siena's Steven Greenberg.
The Working Families Party, which has been pushing for a so-called "millionaire's tax" for months hailed the new numbers on the tax levies: "Governor Paterson talks about shared sacrifice, but New Yorkers aren't buying it," said party honcho Dan Cantor. "Today's Siena poll confirms what we already knew: there's a better choice, and most New Yorkers know it.
link to poll in story
Paterson seems to be blind to the potential Cuomo challenge.
Are talking about the blind guy whose legally black?
Which one will raise taxes the most?????????????????
Which one will raise taxes the most?????????????????
This one caught me off guard. Paterson is taking a dip for the worse (the better!).
Governor see no evil. A complete incompetent. Has no ability to make even the most mundane decisions. Relies on aids who have been proven corrupt and have failed to file their taxes for multiple years. It takes a lot to make Elliot Spitzer look good, but Davey is starting to do it! And what about his obesity tax? Now NY has a trans-fat tax, mansion tax, luxury car tax, luxury boat tax, hospital tax, doctor tax, cancer tax, homeless living on the sidewalk tax, fail to properly scoop up after your dog tax, a schizophrenic dual driver’s license tax and probably several that I’ve missed. The state is heading for a complete collapse and tax payer revolt.
Today I had a bacon and egg sandwich. I noticed that the guy had deep fried the bacon, I always wondered why their sandwiched were so good, but then it occured to me, this guy was breaking the law several hundred times per day. If the food nazis caught on to him, he could go to jail for several hundred years!
If New York elects him governor, they will be sorry for a very long time.
Andrew Cuomo is perhaps the most toxic waste of the mortgage/lending meltdown. Under former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo tenure between 1997 and 2001:
“At the time we discontinued our audit work, a total of 42 adjustments totaling about $17.6 billion had been processed in this manner to adjust fiscal year 1998 ending balances. An additional 242 adjustments totaling about $59.6 billion, were made to adjust fiscal year 1999 activity.” -SUSAN GAFFNEY, INSPECTOR GENERAL HUD, BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM; SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT,
INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY; MARCH 22, 2000
=> The book keeping chicanery more than tripled under Andrew Cuomo.
Note that 59.6 billion is 6.8 million dollars per hour in fiscal year 1999 activity -off books. Cuomo should be stocks on the capital steps.
Andrew Cuomo’s $2 Million Man - How the Attorney General wannabe turned an accused slumlord into a sugar daddy
The Village Voice | August 29th 2006
The most important man in Andrew Cuomo’s personal and political life, topping even his ex-governor father, is obscure, 46-year-old developer Andrew Farkas, who’s ponied up over $2 million for the front-running attorney general candidate in recent years.
That includes $1.2 million in salary that Farkas’s firm, Island Capital, paid Cuomo in 2004 and 2005, as well as over $800,000 in identifiable campaign contributions from varied Farkas companies, family members, and business associates. It does not include an undisclosed amount Island paid Cuomo up to June 2006, when Cuomo finally left the company, which specializes in Dubai and Caribbean luxury marinas. Cuomo’s earnings tripled when he went to work at Island, where he’s made more money than at any other time in his life.
Mario’s seed, what else could we expect????
New York State might have been better off with him in the Senate....as Governor he can really do some damage. (More damage that he caused as HUD Secretary.)
A POX on that Cuomo seed!!!
The Village Voice
Wayne Barrett | Tuesday, August 5th 2008
“Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.”
“What he did is important—not just because of what it tells us about how we got in this hole, but because of what it says about New York’s attorney general, who has been trying for months to don a white hat in the subprime scandal, pursuing cases against banks, appraisers, brokers, rating agencies, and multitrillion-dollar, quasi-public Fannie and Freddie.”
[ What does it say, that it’s left to ‘The Village Voice’ to defend the democracy? ]
It’s really worse than we’ll ever know, in 2000 it appears to become a criminal enterprise:
“For its audit in 2000, Cuomo’s last year in office, HUD declined to make public the amount of undocumentable adjustments required to balance the books.”
It’s not legal to deep fry bacon in NY? Or is he just not paying some tax?
We probably want Patterson to win the primary, he’s a clown.
If I were him I would offered the Senate seat to Cuomo to get rid of him. And as a bonus he could then pick his own toady AG. I guess he couldn’t see the possibilities.
“I guess he couldn’t see the possibilities.”
This is going to be fun, isn’t it? :-)
This is called compounding trans-fats and can land you in a jail cell looking at a guy named bubba.
This is called compounding trans-fats and can land you in a jail cell looking at a guy named bubba.
Rat governors are comedic gold.
Blago, Patterson,
Spitzer, McSveevey
Let the good times roll!
There would a riot if they tried that in Chi-Town.
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