Posted on 08/27/2014 5:22:41 AM PDT by jalisco555
More than four years ago, while announcing his campaign for governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo stood in front of the Tweed Courthouse in downtown Manhattan and said Albany’s antics “could make Boss Tweed blush.”
New York had had enough corruption, he said, and he was going to put a stop to it. “Job 1 is going to be to clean up Albany,” he said, “and make the government work for the people.”
Mr. Cuomo became governor on that platform and recorded several impressive achievements, but he failed to perform Job 1. The state government remains as subservient to big money as ever, and Mr. Cuomo resisted and even shut down opportunities to fix it. Because he broke his most important promise, we have decided not to make an endorsement for the Democratic primary on Sept. 9.
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No way. Cuomo epitomizes what New Yorkers today value most: moral degradation masquerading as righteous indignation.
Yep. At least Elliott Spitzer paid for high priced whores with his own money. The meet the standards of today’s New York Democrats, he’d have to pay for them with taxpayer money and probably throw at least a couple of teenage boys in the mix for diversity’s sake.
You should read up on Zephyr Teachout. She makes Cuomo look like Rand Paul.
The down-staters will vote democRAT no matter what.
Upstate and Western NY except for the cities will vote for Astorino. but there are more of them, than there are of us.
Well, Pataki pulled it off against Andy’s dad, although it was in a year when all the stars were in alignment. And if the primary is close, instead of the expected landslide, things could get interesting.
Her name, occupation, beliefs -- you couldn't make up a more apt persona for the quintessential New York Lib ...
New York is as far gone as California, and in some ways is worse.
Pataki was elected at about the same time as the last Republican governor of California, and the chances that NY will ever elect another one are the same as California, that is to say, zero.
I suspect you’re right. People like Cuomo, the Clintons, Obama are dangerous but at least they’re corrupt. The corruption tempers their worst excesses. It’s the honest liberals who are really dangerous.
I saw the Republican candidate on Fox yesterday I think. He seemed enthused about his prospects to win the office.
I know candidates must have a positive outlook, but to an outsider, he seemed believable
Does this mean if Cuomo wins the primary, the Slines won’t endorse him?
I think not.
Cuomo will win, NY is a cesspool of politically correct Leftists.
They’ll endorse him (or her should she miraculously beat him in the primary) in November, you can count on that.
That much is certain. It's funny that a newspaper that takes money from foreign billionaires of, let us say, questionable reputation can hyperventilate about ethics when it comes to Albany.
I read the editorial twice. References are made to “independent ethics commission”, “panel”, etc. Never saw the use of the term “Moreland” commission. Strikes me as odd that they avoided that term.
I remind people all the time about what cost Mario the election.
The 1994 election was about a single issue.
Mario has been telling everyone that it was the death penalty that cost him the election. That Pataki supported it, and he did not.
That is a complete lie.
The death penalty does not affect people in their everyday lives. While I support the death penalty, and you may as well, does whether a particular offender is executed make a difference to you daily life? Unless you are a relative of either the victim or the offender, obviously not.
What cost Mario the election was his statement “the speed limit in NY will remain 55mph for as long as I am governor”. That turned all of those wealthy downstate democRATS who own houses on Lake George and elsewhere against him every time they drove up to their houses on the Thruway with the boot of Troop T at their throat. The 55 mph speed limit was vigorously enforced in NY for as long as Mario was governor. And that was the deciding factor in that election. They held their noses and voted for Pataki to get the speed limit back to 65 mph. Pataki won by a few points.
Today, there is no “daily life” issue to make those democRATS who voted for Pataki, turn away from Princess Andrew. Sure the economy sucks and the cities and small towns in upstate ans western NY look like the third world, but those downstate democRATS don’t care about us.
“It’s the honest liberals who are really dangerous.”
An “honest” liberal may be even more corrupt than a “corrupt” liberal.
IMHO
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