Posted on 10/01/2010 9:24:59 AM PDT by Mr. K
Edited on 10/02/2010 1:14:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20101001/OPINION04/10010306/1041/OPINION/N.Y.-governor-candidates-should-hold-debates
Duffy is a home town boy too
D&C is so liberal they wont even let FR post - you have to go to their website to read it
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20101001/OPINION04/10010306/1041/OPINION/N.Y.-governor-candidates-should-hold-debates
CUOMO IS TOO CHICKEN TO RESPOND TO PALADINO
TWO WEEKS LATER HE HAS STILL NOT REPLIED
I’d be shocked if Cuomo agreed to debate Paladino. Only if he thrught this thing was about to slip away from him and he panicked would he do it.
It’s not going to happen, but what I think I’d really enjoy would be to see Paladino debate Bloomberg over the mayor’s promotion of the Ground Zero plans.
Don’t kid yourself. The D&C will endorse Baby Cuomo the week before the election.
It’s a liberal Newspaper in a liberal City (Rochester) with a liberal voting block...a Dem dream!!! Not behind Cuomo?? Why do you think they picked Duffy to run with Cuomo. Of course, they’re behind Cuomo.
Did you read it? It doesn’t sound too enthusiastic
I am here in Roch., NY
I dont see ONE SINGLE CUOMO SIGN ANYWHERE!
But I see a TON of Paladino signs- they are everywhere.
Why would Andrew Cuomo who run Housing and Urban Development fear debating a very successful real estate developer? /sarc
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.”
Please contact me if you’re interested in being added on or taken off the Carl Paladino for Governor ping list. This looks to be a fairly high volume ping list for a while, probably until the election.
those are pretty good
you should post them (with a date to show how long Cuomo has been a dirtbag)
I like it!
Gannett source, title and link only, per FR posting rules.
Pretty please fix. :-)
Cuomo has no idea how bad this makes him look. No debates? What is he trying to hide, etc. People hate it when candidates show voters that they think they don’t have to go out to campaign/debate.
I’ve seen them come, and I’ve seen them go. I know what I’m talking about.
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