Gov. Cuomo frantically working behind the scenes to woo back Amazon to NY

Amazon, Inc. was forced to withdraw its bid to locate a second headquarters facility in New York City two weeks ago, but New York state and city political leadership hasn't forgotten them.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, major unions, and businesses have all begun a fierce lobbying campaign to woo Amazon back to the city. The governor has been active, talking to Amazon executives including CEO Jeff Bezos, about a new location The original deal was cancelled when radical socialist politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez objected to the tax breaks being given away to convince Amazon to choose New York City.

The reason for the campaign to bring Amazon back? It's all about the Benjamins.

Washington Free Beacon:

In an attempt to save the Amazon plan, Cuomo has spent the last two weeks privately talking with Amazon executives, including Bezos, two people with knowledge of the conversations told the New York Times. While Cuomo did not offer a new location for the HQ2 plan, he did guarantee the executives that there would be support for the plan, according to one of the Times sources. In addition Cuomo's efforts to save the plan, an open letter is being arranged for publication in the Times on Friday, the newspaper reported.

The letter said, in part, Gov. Cuomo "will take personal responsibility for the project’s state approval, and Mayor de Blasio will work together with the governor to manage the community development process."

At least 25,000 jobs would have been created by the Amazon move and Cuomo says that the state is losing $27 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years.

Way to go, AOC.

So, what I want to know is AOC going to “run radical candidates” against Gov. Homo and Komrade DeBlabbio? I thought CA politics was loony, but it’s sane by comparison to NY. I mean we’re working to do stuff like “sequestering cattle farts,” but not actively trying run a specific big business out of town. Small businesses, however are leaving nonetheless.

Amazon's $3 billion tax incentive package is probably going to have to be $10 billion before they even return Cuomo's phone calls.

I have a suspicion that Amazon was never going to NYC in the first place. They originally announced a search for a new "HQ2" location, then surprised everyone when they announced that they'd selected TWO locations.

Why would the Rat Party want those 22,000 jobs? If you get an actual paycheck that's not from the Government you're probably voting Republican.

They know that. The only people who vote Rat are those with a trust fund,those getting a government check,perverts and wetbacks.

Oh,and the dead!

NYC would be Great for Amazon and for 25,000 people who REALLY want to work there.

You guys don’t LIVE in NYC and probably know jack #### bout it but think you know it like the back of your hand.

You don’t know anything.

AOC and her minions are idiots.

And there are many.

There also are many that REALLY want Amazon in LIC.

I could look at Alabama knowing nothing about it and say on its face value...grew a MORONIC LAZY COWARD in Sessions, and when we need the senate the most, send a DEM to replace him!

But that is not Alabama. That is two instances and that’s all.

I pray Amazon does land in NYC

You gotta love it when an ultra leftist jerk like Bigmouth Andrew gets a momentary sense of clarity and realizes his liberalism caused him to make a major mistake. Of course he has to go behind the scenes to try and fix as not to arouse his fellow moonbat leftards. Too late Andy. The cat’s out of the bag. Are you gonna be MAN enough to stand up to AOC?

I'm ambivalent about the Amazon deal because I don't live in NYC and don't work there, but I find the ignorance about the facts behind it comical.

I've read quite a few articles about the Amazon debacle, and the ones that I've found most interesting are those that I've seen in engineering and urban planning publications. They tend to be detached and objective about the financial details of the deal, but they offer a perspective that hasn't gotten a lot of attention.

In general, this is the point they make:

1. In most parts of the U.S., a corporate relocation that brings 25,000 new jobs to a region would be seen as an enormous economic boost. The people and their government representatives would bend over backwards to make a deal for this move.

2. However, there are a few places in the U.S. -- and they list New York City, Seattle, and most big California cities among them -- this sort of thing is actually seen as highly disruptive by many residents. By far, the biggest concern is among locals who realize that this type of project will radically transform their neighborhood and basically make it unaffordable to live there anymore.

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