Maryland - cheaper, progressive, well run and only three hours away.
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Cuomo has governed very conservatively, so one can safely assume that with all of his liberal and progressive rhetoric, he intends to run for president in 2020 - as a “progressive”.
There is no level of dishonesty that certain politicians will not descend to in order to further their careers. Judging from this article, the Times will let him get away with it.
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Time to split NY State in two. Everything from Westchester/Rockland south should be separate from the rest of NY State. People in the rest of the state are sick of having NYC dictate how the rest of the state is run.
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@Rob
That won't work out too well for upstate or the cities in upstate
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Corrupt DINO. Cuomo reminds me of some of the Democrats of the eighties and nineties. In Democratic districts all they had to do was run as a Dem. and act on board with a few left wedge issues and they were elected. Then all of the the influence and power were at hand. If you are a municipal employee in NY, good luck.
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The battle for who is "Most Blue" is down three contenders, NY, IL & CA...All three swept both both state houses, and governor posts..and have Left Leaning leaders.
All have large sanctuary cities, fight all Trump initiatives, support women rights, minority rights, environment, etc..
All 3 states have strong Democratic senators to back up their left agenda..
These 3 states are the symbols of the true divide between Trump supporters and Obama progressives.
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@Gyns D
And two of those three - NYS and IL - are teetering on the brink of fiscal crisis when the next downturn happens because they continue to provide gold plated social service and coddle public sector employees.
Look up Medicaid/Medicare fraud, abuse and mis-management and the three states you listed will all be at the top of the list - along with FL - home of all the grifters from NYS, NJ and PA.
Only the good economy has lifted CA out of the same straits, but it will feel the pinch with the next recession as well.
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Let's face it, the only real effective leader in NYS and NYC since the 1960's has been - Rudy Giuliani.
Yes, Rudy. Because he came in to a horrendous situation in terms of the downward spiral of NYC and did an effective turnaround job. He laid the foundation for the renaissance that Bloomberg built on and deBlasio has been coasting on - as has all of the Albany pols such as Andrew Cuomo since NYC is the engine that keeps NYS running.
I don't include Hugh Carey and Ed Koch in this assessment since, while they did a fantastic job of pulling NYC out of the 1970's fiscal crisis, both men were part of the Democratic Party system that drove NYC to the edge in the first place.
Andrew Cuomo, like his father, is successful only because he has the wherewithal to spend other peoples' money to deliver all the boondoggles and goodies to the slew of special interests - real estate, teachers, big labor, the health care industry - that constantly have their hands in the deep pockets of NYS.
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@Common Sense
With apologies to Thomas Paine, there is not much sense in this statement.
The financial crisis was a product manufactured 100% by the devout Republican, Nelson Rockefeller. He directed and encouraged the financial policies that created the problems and then whispered to his brother, David at Chase Manhattan, to threaten to call the loans that he had pushed.
Republicans are, after all, the party of deficit spending, And then they turn around and say that we have to cut social programs. It was Rockefeller who eliminated a century of free tuition at the city colleges.
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I don't see him going to Iowa or New Hampshire yet to celebrate. It will be interesting to watch staff reassignments in the next month or so.
The Cuomo ship of state will now be tacking back to the right. Watch him veto the proposed recreational marijuana bill. Fix the subways? Nah too expensive. Instead build more white elephant bridges to appease the labor unions. Single payer health care in NY? Not happening, Bernie. I don't think we have to worry about Andy ever becoming POTUS. In America's heartland, the belief that the name Cuomo typifies big city liberals persists decades after his father was Governor. Remember, 50 years after he died Europeans still thought Al Capone was running Chicago. Stereotypes die hard.
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I held my nose and voted for him - fully knowing I voted for a corrupt politician
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@Gerhard: Ditto. I think you speak for many of us.
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@Gerhard: Then you get what you voted for. I can proudly say a few years from now, that I did not vote for him.
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@Gerhard Not me, I couldn't do it. I understand that Cuomo is more effective than some past governors, but he is corrupt. This was the first time I voted for a write-in candidate.
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How sad - yet so indicative - that the NYT's gets just a few comments on the NYS results, elections where every vote does count and everyone can have a real impact, yet there will be hundreds of comments on the national implications of races from around the country.
Also, notice the turnout from a lot of the competitive upstate House races - generally 220K voters. Whereas here in NYC races have results under 200K and many were incumbents were running unopposed.
It is disheartening that 'progressive' NYS is truly part of the disengaged and disenfranchised electorate that liberals are constantly bemoaning. And this goes double for NYC. Sad!
When began commenting a decade ago, NY a lonely hell for centrists and (fiscal) Republicans
Been subjected to a pair of absolute dunces in Albany, and a (GOP) dunce in DC running us all into the ground, in quest of a 2nd term
It’s all there in ten-year old rants – completely for:
> Absolute full and equal civil rights for any race/gender and LGBTQ – including same-sex marriage
> Enlighted immigration policy – including both high-potential newcomers and folks who’d been around a while and showed OTJ work and civil ethics that underlie middle-class taxpaying America...For instance – Hamdi Ulukaya, who did for artisanal food/bev and the Hudson Valley what Steve Jobs did for smartphones and Si Valley
> Banning assault weapons
> Nuclear energy...While a lot of hard-tech cos made an absolute mess of the planet – a lot of high-tech cos took a much more enlightened approach...Knew from the outset that renewables could never scale adequately
> Michael Bloomberg – doing such a splendid job reviving NYC, that Progressives had nothing to grouse about except heavy-handedness and tone-deafness in some visible areas...Ask anyone in Baltimore or Camden or Detroit about stop-and-frisk – or anyone boxed out of a magnet school by redistributionism
Well, Bloomberg not in sight in Queens (never was, according to Progressives) – but Bezos coming in on a parade, building on hizzoner’s NYC make-over
Which is why I hope MB gets his own parade in ’20
And AC – like FDR – gets a 4th term
I have not yet found a table that lists how many votes each candidate received on each ballot line. This is important because 1) it determines which parties are recognized by NY State (a party must get 50,000+ votes for Governor to be recognized), and 2) it determines the order that the parties are listed on the ballot for the next four years.
@David Levner The votes from each ballot line were updated on the NYS Board of Election's website. As of this morning, the reform party and women's equality party did not meet the 50,000+ threshold, losing their ballot lines, while the Green, Libertarian, and SAM parties did meet the threshold, gaining a ballot line for the next four years.
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How fast will our taxes go up. How many more people will flee this state?
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"We know his type too well"
I reckon you do, Governor, birds of a feather and all that. Please, go for it in 2020. I have a big bag of popcorn ready.
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I truly dread the prospect of Andrew Cuomo running for president.
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Having moved from New York to Missouri in 2011, I sooooo miss not living in New York. I am definitely a blue state person and it is depressing how increasingly red Missouri is becoming. Voting in Missouri for me is almost pointless because no one that I ever vote for gets elected. (Except Obama in 2012, but he didn't win Missouri.)
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Well I guess it's time to move out of NY like so many others and leave this dying state to the people of NYC. Good luck everyone with even higher taxes and unemployment. Seeya.
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New Yorkers suffer from the battered wife syndrome.
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Maybe now something will be done about the corruption in Albany. Just kidding!
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I always vote straight ticket Democrat, but had to hold my nose tight to vote for Gillibrand. But unlike the 74,000 Bernie Bros that got Trump elected, I placed the good of the country over cynical nihilism and blackened the oval next to her name in the spirit that every vote counts. But I hope she doesn’t think she deserved it.
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I actually hesitated before I filled in the circle under her name. Her treachery in the Al Franken fracas made me detest her.
But apparently Democrats learned their lesson after Bernie or Bust. Hold your nose and look at the big picture.
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@Patrick - Agreed. However, now we have to look to 2020, and I truly hope she doesn't end up on the presidential ticket. If Democrats want to hand the White House to Trump for a second term, one of the surest ways of doing it would be to put Gillibrand on the ballot.
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I didn't vote for Gillibrand (or her opponent), the first time I didn't vote Democratic for a statewide office since I moved to NYC in the '80s. In my eyes, Gillibrand's treachery in the Al Franken affair has permanently disqualified her for elective office.
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NY Democrats should seize this opportunity and enact legislation that guarantees a woman's right to choose in New York State.
Maybe even amend the State Constitution
We know what is coming on the Federal level and New York needs to protect ourselves from the right wing extremists
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I wonder what the showpiece legislation will be - something he will use to kick off the 2020 campaign in earnest.
Will fixing the MTA play well in Iowa and New Hampshire? Probably not, but it keeps his home state from dogging his campaign.
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I like Cuomo. He's competent, energetic and progressive. I actually think he's a better governor than his father was. During his campaign I think he got the message that we need those infrastructure projects, and that we need to fight the Trump agenda.
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I'm OK with Andrew. Is is at least business friendly and understand economics unlike his far-left progressive party members. He at least understands that "medicare for all" is totally un-affordable.
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Not to say you're wrong, but even CATO says we'd say money if we switched to medicare for all
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As someone with insight into his father, Mario, I can unequivocally say that he is the better of the two. Nonetheless, he will need to fix MTA troubles if he is to rise to national status. As a retired NYC Transit manager who understands the underlying issues, the solution involves BOTH money and changes in operational details (NYC Transit is the ONLY major transit operation in the world without a maintenance windows - where the system is shut down for maintenance. In effect, we change our oil while the engine is running! The accident that killed a TWU employee happened because the trains were operating during maintenance. This led to slowing down trains in most locations, half of the underlying reason for delays in arrival times. A maintenance window would eliminate this, and other problems. But it is a tough sell. Can he manage it? As he is not mayor of NYC, he might be able to strong arm the MTA board. It will upset the mayor, but in the end, will do more to 'fix' the MTA than anything else.)
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Albany, N.Y. -> a city more than big enough for the political aspirations of Andrew Cuomo.
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Reading this, it's hard to know what Cuomo envisions for his 3rd term. I've voted for him every time (not much of an alternative), and I do think he's been effective on social issues in particular.
That said, he really needs to manage the subway crisis now. If he wants to proclaim himself an infrastructure governor, our increasingly third world transit system just isn't going to cut it.
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@Brian. Having waited 38 minutes last week for a bus than never arrived, I am hoping to at least make it to the third world when it comes to NYC transportation!
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Cuomo was one of the ones who "managed" the subway crisis by taking money from it in the first place. That and numerous other problems ("I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo"? Really?!) are why I've, on the contrary, voted for him none of the time and blanked (as now) or wrote-in for his job.
The others[1] were (D) down the line, naturally.
[1] Except for AG since James didn't apparently address the importance of independence of AGs and DAs in racist-cop cases, from the police they need for their work but still need to investigate, while Sussman did; but Gillibrand included. I decided any problem with Franken's removal was better judged by Minnesotans with a write-in than by New Yorkers who do need their own otherwise sane Senator to hold off covfefeans.
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@Brian
Let's hope the House of Representatives will use its power to provide Gateway funding.
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Call it pointless, but I wrote in Cynthia Nixon's name on my ballot. She would have made a fine or governor in my opinion. Andrew Cuomo to me has shown himself to be a Democrat in name only. He was more than happy to triangulate with Republicans and the IDC instead of supporting robust Progressive legislation. As a former rent-stabilized tenant who was priced out of his rent-stabilized apartment he was never really an ally. The tenant protection unit is horribly understaffed and under funded and greedy New York City landlords have been making money hand-over-fist with his help and those of the entrenched landlord Lobby upstate. I'm not enthused about the third term.
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I would've voted her if she remained WFP's candidate. I interpreted Cuomo's presence on it (as well as D) instead as a sign even she (much less that party) didn't want her to run further, and kept the Governor line blank.
I'm even less enthused about his third. He needs too much outside pressure to champion good policies or meet the basic requirements and norms of a sane Gov.
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I wish I was more enthusiastic about his victory. After voting for him at 6 am, I then learned of the deal in play for Amazon to build HQ2 1/2 in LIC, an already overdeveloped, overpriced and overpopulated section of Queens. I am deeply concerned about this prospect as our infrastructure, trains, housing, are already taxed and yet to see improvement from the state. Cuomo’s ignorance of daily needs of New Yorkers continues to effect us negatively, whether it’s moving money away from our MTA system or tolerating the IDC for the many years that he did. Let’s be clear: this Cuomo is not his father (I read his diaries). Cuomo’s victory was a result of him being the only Democratic choice. I am praying for Queens.
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@Diva: There was choice, so before NY's can complain about Cuomo, they really need to sit an think about what the Democrats have done in Albany, and why they cant open their mind to have a Republican state government.
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Interesting that you say the other 3 statewide candidates rode Cuomo’s coattails when he actually had a poorer showing than all of them. Cuomo was the only one of the four who garnered less than 60% of the vote.
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