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Even Dems want Mario Cuomo Bridge changed back to Tappan Zee
NY Post ^ | 08/11/2021 | Carl Campanile

Posted on 08/11/2021 1:14:56 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Disgraced outgoing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stain is even affecting the legacy of his late father, three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Some Democrats are entertaining a push to remove Mario Cuomo’s name from the new $4 billion Hudson River crossing in Rockland/Westchester — an idea unthinkable just months ago.

It would be renamed with its original moniker — the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Queens Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, a Democratic socialist, has signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill to rename the bridge.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; bridge; changed; cuomo; jessicagonzalezrojas; mariocuomo; newyork; newyorkcity; queens; rockland; tappanzee; tappanzeebridge; westchester
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To: frank ballenger

How about DiBlow-zio? He has a black wife and didn’t she get $800k that went missing without a trace? That would qualify as a felon.


21 posted on 08/11/2021 1:38:52 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Political Junkie Too

“Let the name of Cuomo be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of New York. Let the name of Cuomo be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.”

So let it be written!
So let it be done!


22 posted on 08/11/2021 1:39:07 PM PDT by oldvirginian (I’m getting tired of being part of a major historical event.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Especially since the Tappan Zee was named after an Indian group, the Tappan, that lived at this wide spot (zee, or sea, in Dutch) on the Hudson.


23 posted on 08/11/2021 1:39:23 PM PDT by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sucks when the Purge comes for you doesn’t it? Can’t happen to a nicer family.


24 posted on 08/11/2021 1:42:09 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"It derives its name from the Tappan Native American sub-tribe of the Delaware/Lenni Lenape, and the Dutch word zee, meaning a sea."

They "culturally appropriated" a Native American tribal name to honor a mob owned Italian. Hypocrisy on full display!

25 posted on 08/11/2021 1:46:33 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: livius

Thanks I always thought it was a Dutch name. I lived nearby in Mahwah.


26 posted on 08/11/2021 1:46:51 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was reading up on Andrew Cuomo to remember all I could about him

In sum, he has been an arrogant political whore and princeling his entire career

- Never held a “real” job in his life

- While at HUD, contributed to the 2008 financial crisis by creating lax lending rules and pushing Fannie and Freddie to buy crap mortgages

- Married into the Kennedy Clan

- Used his position as NY AG for purely political, name-plate prosecutions

- Completely pro-abortion and had state buildings light themselves in pink when he pushed through the most pro-abortion laws in the country

- Asinine and political SAFE gun-control Act in the wake of Sandy Hook

- Gave nearly $1 billion to Tesla in exchange for what is about 400 jobs in upstate NY, to purchase some headlines

- Well know what he did during Covid

- Rapist and sexual pervert


27 posted on 08/11/2021 1:46:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: nuconvert
Tappan Zee predates the American Revolution. It even predates English settlers. It is a Dutch name , dating from when New York was New Amsterdam, and the Hudson Valley was all Dutch. Washington Irving used that era as a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", aka, "The Headless Horseman".

28 posted on 08/11/2021 1:47:26 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s too fun watching Democrats eat their own, and equally amusing to see the trigger.

Cuomo kills thousands of elderly nursing home residents with misguided COVID guidelines, but they run him out on a rail for allegedly groping someone(s).


29 posted on 08/11/2021 1:47:59 PM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: frank ballenger

Ted Kennedy Bridge? Oh shoot, he was a white guy.....


30 posted on 08/11/2021 1:49:03 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: the_Watchman
OK, how about the Obama Overpass
31 posted on 08/11/2021 1:49:30 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: frank ballenger

Got it! The Eric Garner Loosie Bridge in honor of the guy who was martyred over nicotine.


32 posted on 08/11/2021 1:51:54 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I and all my family and friends still call it the Tappan zee. You can’t go years calling something by one name, and then abruptly change it. Fredo’s f*#&$ing Father’s bridge has a nice ring to it though


33 posted on 08/11/2021 1:54:40 PM PDT by ValleyofHope (Anti-marxist ally)
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To: alstewartfan
Got it! The Eric Garner Loosie Bridge in honor of the guy who was martyred over nicotine.

Never heard that story but I heard a fan say "I love Loosie."

34 posted on 08/11/2021 2:01:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: albie

Same thing happened to me one night. It was spooky to be shown driving on the Hudson River. The new bridge is displaced a few hundred yards north of the old structure.

Maybe I should update my GPS? Nah, Ford wants $175 to do it.


35 posted on 08/11/2021 2:02:27 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: God luvs America
granted 99% of us still call it the Tappan Zee, just like we call it the Triborough bridge rather than the RFK Bridge.

I live walking distance to the Triborough Bridge. I've never heard anyone in my neighborhood call it the RFK Bridge. (Never heard anyone call the Queensboro Bridge the Ed Koch Bridge either.) It was dumb and a waste of money to rename those bridges.

Haven't used the new Tappan Zee Bridge yet, but I will never call it the Cuomo Bridge. Not even Wikipedia will call it that.

36 posted on 08/11/2021 2:04:19 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not name the bridge after the victims of ‘Nursing Home Killer’ (NHK) Cuomo instead of Fredo’s father?


37 posted on 08/11/2021 2:04:57 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: alstewartfan
Ted Kennedy Bridge? Oh shoot, he was a white guy.....

Honorary saint, though.

For his bridge for anyone who drowns after driving off the bridge their heirs will get $500 off the dredging fee as they use sonar and cables to locate and bring up the corpse.

38 posted on 08/11/2021 2:06:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Blue Highway

Excellent. Great idea.
The country needs minds like ours.


39 posted on 08/11/2021 2:07:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His name should be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks…

…so as not to remind the public of this era on a daily basis.


40 posted on 08/11/2021 2:08:18 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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