O Albany -- isn't the governance of New York as corrupt and unresponsive as any other state's?

he's keith hernandez!

https://deadspin.com/ny-state-senate-candidate-julia-salazar-was-once-involv-1828859119

NYT showing buyer's remorse over the Prince

https://splinternews.com/after-endorsement-the-new-york-times-furiously-backped-1828926405

LETTER from state to contractor: “The authority will not hold T.Z.C. responsible for any traffic incidents(s) or damage to the work that results from shifting traffic on the bridge while all elements are not fully complete as permitted by this letter.” https://t.co/IdnEJJ99Z5

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) September 11, 2018

You know it's almost as if New York voting laws are designed to depress turnout and hand elections to shitty incumbents https://t.co/Z0kviouYM9

— Katie McDonough (@kmcdonovgh) September 12, 2018

Evergreen tweet

‼️‼️‼️New Yorkers & all NYCHA residents its time to get JUSTICE, VOTE Thur. Sept. 13 for Gov. Cuomo, Lt. Gov. Hochul & Tish James. They know how to work for the people to make NY even GREATER. Spread the word. See you at the Polls‼️‼️‼️

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) September 12, 2018

can i shamefully admit here i'm a bit torn about the Cuomo vs. Nixon primary

I don't have a vote and I don't think Nixon will win, but I think she is worth voting for

same

"experience"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/nyregion/cuomo-anti-semitism-nixon-flier.html

Nhex, Prince Andy has actively assisted in keeping the legislature from going Dem (if that helps)

I am not a NYer and know close to nothing about Cuomo’s administration but what I know is enough to convince me he is a machine politician of the most destructive sort and deserves a primary thrashing.

Like Charles Foster Kane would probably be a better choice than him

trouble with the rolls

https://splinternews.com/people-are-sharing-a-whole-slew-of-horror-stories-about-1829039353

rollin' with the cuomies

Cuomo: the 6 Senate IDC primary challenger wins last night were just "rearranging the deck chairs"

— Karen DeWitt (@kdewitt7) September 14, 2018

Whose deck chairs, exactly

http://www.mod16.org/imagemacros/emot-iiam.gif

so here's comparing the state to the Titanic? cool

The story isn't Cuomo, it's that Nixon turned out enough to crush the "blue dog" faction in the State Senate that gave Republicans control. There are a lot of bills coming Cuomo won't like. Either he fights and blows it all up or gives over and goes further left.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) September 14, 2018

I am disappointed that Nixon did not win. Also, in an empty office you can tell where the women sit because there are always sweaters or wraps on the back of the chair. It's freezing in the offices.

i sit with a fan on me at work all day. i wish it were freezing in the offices

.@NYGovCuomo on @amazon #HQ2:

"I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that’s what it takes."

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) November 5, 2018

^three-term whore

re NYC, deBlasio says vote YES on all 3 ballot questions, while Scott Stringer says YES-NO-NO. Has p4reene been heard from? anyone else?

I’m doing yes no no

this thread has me thinking yes no yes:

#flipyourballot and vote YES on Prop 3 tomorrow. Term limits for Community Boards, even if watered-down, are a step in the right direction.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) November 5, 2018

also this Medium article really lands the case for Yes on 3:

https://medium.com/@memosalazar/its-2018-and-new-york-still-doesn-t-care-about-your-vote-e9513bc2aea0

I think people's take on the term limit question depends on the character of the neighborhood that they care about. A historically Black neighborhood that's now targeted by developers and speculators is ill served by pushing elders off the board when they know the history and work to protect their community's heritage--but a historically white neighborhood that's now refreshed by immigration but refuses to transition the power structures to represent a now-Chinese or now Arabic-majority community is unrepresentative and inequitable.

I'm getting the sense that Queens is scenario #2 and so is South Brooklyn, but Central Brooklyn (Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, ENY, Crown Heights) is the former. In short, IDK but I'm prob going yes-yes-yes.

that's an interesting analysis - i definitely think of CBs mostly in terms of old white assholes in manhattan and brooklyn, fighting against bike lanes and bus improvements and having a mixed record at best on fighting gentrification. there may be other scenarios. but i wonder how critical "elders" really are - there are surely young members of endangered communities who'd be interested in serving, and are we really imagining that they'd all be quickly captured by smooth talk from developers (and that no elders have been similarly captured)?

Yeah I also question that which is why I'm willing to vote Yes on 3 even though my loyalties are with Bed Stuy.

I don't think there's a single white person on CB3, whose meetings I went to for years, and iirc there was no shortage of women leaders either. So the district I'm most familiar with doesn't fit the assumptions. But I've noted for years that while they can hound some cocky white aspiring cocktail bar entrepreneur and make them regret botching their liquor license request, they can't stop gentrification, and new bars still keep opening and filling up with people that are disrespectful to the neighborhood. So I don't know that the "we need elders" argument is that effective.

are we really imagining that they'd all be quickly captured by smooth talk from developers (and that no elders have been similarly captured)?

No I think the "bad" scenario here is pro development puppets and bougie white ppl who can afford to pay 2.5 mil for a brownstone just taking over the community boards and erasing the work of 70 years of community-building.

that's a reasonable thing to worry about! hmmm.

i did end up yes no yes

i also skipped the judges. we shouldn't be fucking voting for judges.

went at a bad time, but that was chaotically busy

Wow. Head of NYC Board of Elections tells @azi that long lines (up to 4 hrs!) = ‘robust democracy’:
‘Instead of us looking at that as a negative, we should look at that, “Wow, look at all the people that are coming out to vote!”’ https://t.co/rHgw2KBj7d

— Andy Newman (@andylocal) November 6, 2018

gtfo

welcome to the minority caucus, Simcha Felder, you cockroach.

what a well-formed joek

As he started a gaggle with reporters a little while ago, Gov. Cuomo joked that he wanted them to take a step back: "Space. We need space. Or I'll bring you all up on charges under the Me Too movement."

This was received awkwardly.

— Nick Reisman (@NickReisman) January 9, 2019

BREAKING: The New York state Senate's Democratic majority has passed a bill to finally establish early voting!

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) January 14, 2019

fuck you

"What happened is the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government," Andrew Cuomo says of the blown-up Amazon deal.

— Jon Campbell (@JonCampbellGAN) February 22, 2019

Anybody have an opinion on the Public Advocates?

Jumaane Williams has almost all the prog endorsements + the NYT, will be hard to beat.

The Working Families Party helped Democrats regain power in New York. Now Democrats are trying to kill it. https://t.co/DA0X8KPjb0 by @ryangrim

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) March 6, 2019

now i would just name the thread "laughing at Cuomo"

https://t.co/FTttlF9sUb pic.twitter.com/9SP3pQy3Ot

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 8, 2019

Cuomo speaking and getting a bit...weird. Paraphrasing but: “I can’t refer to a terminal as ‘sexy.’ That opens other questions. Is the terminal male or female? What’s its orientation? How do you touch the terminal?” pic.twitter.com/Hlj5159mPs

— David Slotnick (@David_Slotnick) May 15, 2019

his instincts are peerless across the board

if he doesn't think buildings can be sexy his imagination is even more impoverished than it seemed

“It seems to be that the democratic socialist wing of the Democratic Party is in full control of the state government,” Mr. Martin added. “I think this is the official declaration of that.”https://t.co/ebVxZn0Qu0

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 13, 2019

“I think I’m sort of a laid back, cool dude in a loose mood," said Andrew Cuomo, just now.

— “loves to mouth off” nolan (@ndhapple) June 14, 2019

"I am the left. I am the left!" @NYGovCuomo said on WAMC. "What person in this state has done, accomplished, more progressive things than me?"

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) July 9, 2019

Cuomo speaking at a Syracuse jobs-related event:

"There’s a concept in life, called, foreplay…it starts with 'hello. how are you?'"

— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) October 9, 2019

smooth operator