Guess Who’s Accusing Cuomo of Dishonesty and Betrayal?

Cuomo has always spoken out of bothsides of his mouth.Still waiting for an ethics bill and the return of the Moreland Commission. The man has promised refrom since his first term, we're still waiting.

The politics of the legislature vs. the administration are to be expected. But we will see the Governor's legislative agenda when he gives his annual 'state of the state' address. But we haven't seen a legislative agenda from either the assembly or the state senate. Getting the Democratic majority on the same page may be like herding cats, but the public should get a full open view of the general outlines of what they would like to accomplish so that we can make our views known. Too many politicians think that democracy begins and ends at the ballot box. Just as we need more transparency from the governors office, we need to same from our legislature. Many a promise is made on the campaign trail only to disappear in the fog of Albany politics. Hopefully the new Democrats who were elected will move to end this.

As a former New Yorker going back to the days of Nelson Rockefeller, these so-called independent thinking reformers will either find themselves corrupted by system they vowed to change or regulated to irrelevance. Albany doesn't change only the characters who take its stage.

Where is the meat in this story? I was waiting for what bills will be passed; what ideas the elected have on problem downstate and upstate. What needs to be fixed? No specifics; nothing concrete. Nada.

Here's hoping that Mr. Cuomo runs for President and gets equally embarrassed and weakened by the experience as did Mr. Christie from next door.

Who is accusing Cuomo? Everybody?

The Governor easily won a third his Republican opposition gets more pathetic every time he runs even within his own party it's not much of a contest. He will not run for the Presidency letting the Junior Senator from New York enter the Ruckus. No he will continue to work on a legacy of that of a "Builder" he enjoys the building of Bridges other infrastructure needs for the State. These are physical accomplishments that will stand with time. But the legacy he desires the most is a fourth term the term that eluded his father.

For everyone with great expectations for a "Democratic vision of reality", which is a nice thought, be aware of course, that Big Business will still be calling the shots behind the scenes and Cuomo understands he must accommodate Them, first and foremost. Cuomo is as liberal as Hilary, which is to say, more in word than deed, and certainly not Progressive in the mold of the newly elected officials like Salazar. I would expect him to try to neutralize the Progressive members of the legislature by trying to divide and conquer whenever possible. Cuomo seems to have accepted intellectually that the very rich we will have always with us and the very rich will control the show ( money). His job is to help sell that concept to the people while doing his best to appear to be representing "the people". It's kind of why, the more things seem to change, the more they remain the same. Expect the corruption of Albany to take a new shape or form perhaps, but it will be with us always as well. Just part of the political game of, make believe we're helping the people.

Cuomo is a thief. Let's impeach him now!!!

Cuomo has gotten my vote only because the Republican alternatives have been dismal. But I’ve disagreed with him on education and on his ineffective efforts to tackle inequality. Right now, however, the most critical issue is the environment, and I am waiting to hear what the Governor will do to burnish a legacy that is not stellar . A major question for me is why hasn’t he signed onto the regional effort to dramatically cut carbon emissions in the transportation sector. We need bold action here, and soon. We don’t have time for his dilly dallying.

There will be no reforming of NYS by Governor Cuomo and the newly empowered Democratic Legislature unless they take on at least one or more of the powers that really rule NYS and NYC - Wall St, real estate developers/landlords, big health care, big education and the NYS's dysfunctional and bloated bureaucracy. Wall St and developers/landlords generate boatloads of money and related taxes that enables NYS an NYC to be so dysfunctional in the way they govern. (Developers also employ lots of union labor - next point.) But, a goose that lays golden eggs can easily be killed with detrimental consequences. Construction, health care and education are all bedrock bastions of union labor - all of which have NYS and NYC governments dancing to their tunes, thus driving up the price of everything in NYS and NYC, especially housing. They are all vastly enabled by the tons of funding they get from NYS. Why do you think NYS has the highest per capita Medicaid/Medicare spending of any US state? Big government + big labor + big business = a 'virtuous' circle of oligarchy that is strangling the small businesses and the middle class with excessive taxes, sky-high cost of living and innumerable laws, rules and regulations. The 'party of the people' better recognize who the people are before they turn NYS and NYC in to disastrous copies of Illinois and Chicago, respectively.

As I always said: The Dems don't like to govern. They like to complain. And voters wondered why Cuomo didn't mind having a Repb state senate.

ANYONE who has worked in the Exec Branch of NYS knows that Cuomo is a seething autocrat who rarely, if ever, listens and he has governed New York City recklessly. There are numerous examples but consider a current one: a political buddy who works as Partner and Co-Chairman of Mercury Public Affairs now runs the MTA -- another Cuomo part-time/contingent MTA chair. Cuomo has focused more on his vendetta with diBlasio than the 98% of New York State who have suffered needlessly due to faux austerity politics (austerity policies for some, not all). The people of NYC have awakened to this rude, incorrigible, "everything is political" ruler who is the essence of backdoor dealing (Amazon, anyone?). If there were potholes upstate the way there are non-working parts of our transit system (Byford is the only good news), someone else would be governor. Bring on the IG office and open up all the drawers. And, may an non-corrupt challenger emerge because 4 more years of this hack will bankrupt our region, Amazon being our new give-away taxpayer burden.

Fasten your seatbelts folks, turbulence ahead! There's going to be some jostling while the Dems work out their standings.

I held my nose and voted for Cuomo because he is better than any Republican. That being said, the level of corruption in his administration is stratospheric and I am not clear if he really represents the progressive ideals of this state. It will be nice to have a new governor soon enough.

This article calls challenging the governor "emboldened" but I call it TYPICAL. Leave it to the Democrats to eat their own! Nothing is more important for this state and country than consigning Trump and the Republican fascists in Washington to the dustbin of history and yet if I had to name one thing that would prevent that most cherished goal from occurring, it would be the historic and infamous inability of Democrats to come together to make it happen! I consider myself a liberal with a small "l" meaning I don't subscribe to a party but I have compassion for PEOPLE. That's the overriding issue which Democrats, who get hung up on trying to outdo each other in their quest for the title of "most open-minded" or "most progressive", never seem to be able to make happen because of the constant desire to tear each other down. The one and only thing that they could learn from the Republicans is HOW TO WIN. Hope they grow up, ladies and gentlemen, for everyone's sake.

Please, Ms. Wang and Mr. McKinley Revisit the NY Times from times past Cuomo, a Master of the $50,000 Fund-Raiser, Bypasses Small Donors NYT 11/13/207 "Since the beginning of 2015, Mr. Cuomo has raised over 99 percent of his campaign money from donations larger than $1,000" And the NY Times, again from times past Big Donors Dominate Cuomo’s Fund-Raising, Analysis Finds Middle-class contributors are getting squeezed out of New York’s political process. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has condemned the influence of money in politics and promised reform. But his own campaign is a case study in how irrelevant small donors have become in New York. Over the last two years, only 1 percent of the money raised by Mr. Cuomo's campaign came from donors who gave him less than $1,000, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group, while seven donors gave him $100,000 to $500,000. 1/13/2013 And you shall confirm that Mr. Cuomo is real a Republican disguised as a Democrat, because in NYS politics you sing the song your donors love A worthy targets for Democrats wishing to clean up Albany

Many of us supported Cuomo for governor solely as the lesser of two evils; his Republican challenger was too much of a mini-me version of Trump to be even considered as an alternative. As governor, Cuomo has failed to attend to the deteriorating state of public transit, especially the subway, for eight long years. His inaction has already led to employers leaving New York and its transit nightmare for other cities. Cuomo's go-to excuse for his inaction was always that the Republicans controlled the State Senate. Well, no more! The new Democratic leadership in Albany, now in charge of both Chambers, better hold Cuomo's feet to the fire, and start fixing our transportation mess. If they don't, I hope that many of my fellow New Yorkers will join me in doing whatever is possible to oust them in the next election. You got the power, now use it!

This brings to mind a fact about his father. Mario Cuomo was always happy to live with divided government (Republican senate) because it provided him with a foil outside his party. It also provided a convenient excuse when some initiative failed. Junior -- in every possible way his father's inferior -- might very well rue the day that the Democrats took control of the Senate.

In states runs by Republicans, Republican governors do what they like, and Republican-controlled legislatures rubber stamp legilsation, much like the Soviet Politburo, much like Republicans in Washington under presidents Bush and Trump. However, in Democratic states, we the voters expect our Democratic governors and our Democratic Senate and House leaders to work together to govern our states. In a Democratic-controlled state, the governor is NOT a dictator.

It's the same dynamic that has Pelosi running scared and why she cannot support a wall without risking her leadership position. It's Cuomo's turn to get pushed into difficult positions. No more hiding behind "GOP resistance."

Gov. Cuomo needs to confront the new reality. The newly elected Democrats are going to start legislating for the whole list of socialist policies, driving forward for better schools, better transportation, better oversight of NYC as well as the rest of the state, and he needs to get it into his head that if he plans to run for president, he better have a more impressive portfolio than he currently has as governor. Right now, I look at him as nothing more than a "politician," and that ain't good!

Gov. Cuomo's problems outlined here are all from the metro NYC area. But, the bogus Safe Act and other anti-gun grandstanding has made him unpopular in WNY and other upstate areas.

An altogether healthy conflict over policy is depicted here, and I am pleased as can be with the election result after reading this article. I like the governor, but want him pushed hard on policy and we evidently have the legislator to do that.