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

and some Ukrainian goyim

it is easy to spot the fundamentalist pols in Brooklyn, at least.

borough park is a horrible and scary place

And to think I came all the way to NYC to escape religious zealots/bigots.

“The Assembly will pick a leader, and the Senate will pick a leader. And I have no intention of getting involved in either situation,” Cuomo said at a press conference last week, while underscoring that he thought Democrats learned a lesson the last time they were in control of the Senate. “I think they learned the hard way. The Democrats were in power. The Democrats then lost power because of the dysfunction and I think they learned that lesson the hard way.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/andrew_cuomo_fake_democrat/

fuck cuomo obv

Rally at Governor Cuomo's birthday fundraiser

Governor Cuomo is hosting a fundraiser to celebrate his birthday. We'll rally outside the fundraiser to protest his plan to frack New York. Then, on Wednesday, you can ride the bus to Albany for a rally at Governor Cuomo's State of the State address. RSVP here:

http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Calendar/667299190?view=Detail&id=101382

When: 07 Jan, 6:00 PM
Where: The Waldorf Astoria
301 Park Avenue at East 49th Street
New York, NY 10022

via p4reene

NY lawmakers mandate massive tax breaks for millionaires’ Manhattan apartments

Developers of four of the projects, their relatives and affiliated companies gave $1.5 million to various state campaign committees from 2008 to 2012

the Assembly sponsor, Keith Wright (D-Manhattan), said he knew little about the tax breaks.
“These five properties — it was important that they benefit from the piece of legislation probably, and I don’t know why, because some of the folks in the Senate wanted them to be included.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/big-tax-breaks-mandated-millionaires-nyc-digs-article-1.1375297

If you got a survey email from the WFP, I hope you told them to run a progressive against Cuomo.

Shame on de Blasio, NY unions, and motherfucking professional liberals. The WFP is a scam.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/06/03/why_did_progressives_lose_to_andrew_cuomo.html

Marie Andytoinette

With Albany rocked by a seemingly endless barrage of scandals and arrests, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo set up a high-powered commission last summer to root out corruption in state politics. It was barely two months old when its investigators, hunting for violations of campaign-finance laws, issued a subpoena to a media-buying firm that had placed millions of dollars’ worth of advertisements for the New York State Democratic Party.

The investigators did not realize that the firm, Buying Time, also counted Mr. Cuomo among its clients, having bought the airtime for his campaign when he ran for governor in 2010.

Word that the subpoena had been served quickly reached Mr. Cuomo’s most senior aide, Lawrence S. Schwartz. He called one of the commission’s three co-chairs, William J. Fitzpatrick, the district attorney in Syracuse.

“This is wrong,” Mr. Schwartz said, according to Mr. Fitzpatrick, whose account was corroborated by three other people told about the call at the time. He said the firm worked for the governor, and issued a simple directive:

“Pull it back.”

...In a 13-page statement responding to The Times’s questions, Mr. Cuomo’s office defended its handling of the commission. It said the commission was created by and reported to the governor, and therefore he could not be accused of interfering with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/governor-andrew-cuomo-and-the-short-life-of-the-moreland-commission.html

www.TimeToGoCuomo.com

The state Democratic Party opened its war chest for an ad blitz promoting Gov. Cuomo to blunt a blistering report detailing how his administration meddled with an anti-corruption panel, records show.
The state Democratic Campaign Committee spent $281,655 for ads that began airing July 19, one day after the governor’s office learned The New York Times was going to print a lengthy story about how Cuomo aides compromised the workings of the Moreland Commission panel.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/30/pro-cuomo-ad-blitz-to-soften-anti-corruption-panel-scandals-hit/

hey it's my own private thread

guess i'm voting for Teachout in September and Hawkins in November

http://www.thenation.com/article/181289/how-zephyr-teachout-became-contender

who thinks Zephyr has a shot at 20%?

26%?

http://www.msnbc.com/steve-kornacki/zephyr-teachout-likely-wont-exceed-expectations-polls

did you vote for her

of course, anything to put a bug up Andy's Clintonite ass

wait -- you're a democrat?

it's the only way to vote here, chief

ZT running at 35.5%

chiefed in a teachout beef

I voted

I smell a potential Stop HilRod movement

Cuomo is under 60% in Westchester, where he lives

lmfao

Teachout won a ton of upstate counties while losing every borough of NYC

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/09/10/liberal-teachout-won-over-democrats-in-new-yorks-conservative-heartland/

hoping Howie Hawkins kicks ass in tonight's debate

http://buffalo.twcnews.com/content/news/779058/howie-hawkins-claims-gov--cuomo-edited-usgs-fracking-report/

So Cuomo bankrolled this Women's Equality Party solely to drain votes from the WFP and maybe get them off the ballot for good, as far as i can tell. AND THEY STILL ENDORSED HIM! "Please hit me on the head with a 2x4 again, governor." Green Green Green.

http://www.howiehawkins.org/why_howie_hawkins_deserves_your_vote_and_the_wfp_does_not

He played the "WEP" card well after the endorsement though, and if they withdrew their endorsement or violated the terms of the agreement by appearing unsupportive of Reptile Face, he could retract his commitment to pass the Women's Equality Agenda, the NYS DREAM Act, raise the minimum wage, etc, AND bring the IDC back. The WFP leadership weighed how many people's lives that would change and decided if they could hold him accountable to those commitments it would be worth it.

Basically now that he agreed to all those progressive issues he's trying to break them so they CAN'T hold him accountable, ie having his cake for free and ordering a hit on the baker he ordered it from.

yeah I know it was after. Withdrawal of the endorsement would be the honorable way out.

Celeb enthusiasts about the "WEP" are the usual gang of tourists, oh hello Lena Dunham.

Ugh unfortunately I live right on the edge of Cornegy's council district and while my own city council person is terrible, I'm glad she's just crazy and not "centrist" or whatever Cornegy thinks he is. He's publicly supporting BOTH the WEP **and** Prop 1. Why why why why

If anyone can defend a No vote on ballot proposals 2 and 3, i'm all ears. (All I can detect: legislators won't read electronic bills; the tech money is better spent elsewhere on schools, and only public ones.)

I think Prop 2 is just a bit of house keeping, something about how the countdown for how long they have to read a proposed bill before it comes to a vote will start from when the email is sent instead of when paper copies are distro'ed. Will prob result in legislators assigning a staffer to print it out for them as soon as the email comes through and that's assuming anyone was reading proposed legislation anyway.

A frustrated labor union source said that in the end, Cuomo is just being Cuomo.

“The mayor arranged a forced marriage between the base and him,” said the union source, who has helped with the Democratic effort to win the Senate. “This is what happens when you get into an arranged marriage. It doesn’t always work out.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/gov-cuomo-closing-campaign-strategy-left-democrats-scratching-heads-blog-entry-1.1996812

Fuck Cuomo so much. Gonna protest vote tomorrow.

Me too. He's been shitting on teachers so goddamn relentlessly. I'm voting Hawkins/Jones.

I would be delighted if the Greens outpolled the WFP, not sure it's gonna happen.

My state senator is this unopposed asshole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Felder

so I wrote in myself.

Cuomo's statewide total from last night is currently 52.78%, lol

5% for Hawkins, I guess that's something

Slightly more than Working Families and "Women's Equality Party" combined.

since they're both effectively the Dem ticket it's probably not an accurate comparison

well State Senate solidly back in Republican hands, they don't even need scumbag "Democrat" Felder anymore.

ie excellent crutch for Cuomo, another WFP negotiating triumph.

since they're both effectively the Dem ticket it's probably not an accurate comparison

― Nhex, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's actually why it's marginally meaningful, because Working Families is supposed to be this *insider progressive* party that works with the dems to make sure progressive issues get pushed (or just uses false promises to keep progressives from defecting away from the dems entirely, depending on how you look at it).

I mean with Cuomo winning 52-39, it's not of enormous significance, but in a closer D-R race, the number of progressives who vote for the dem on the Working Families line vs vote for a third party candidate could make the difference.

Cuomo's raw vote total is the lowest for a NY gov winner since FDR in 1930. (When we had a lot less people, if more voters.)

Shelly Silver -- what took so long?

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150122/BLOGS04/150129937/charges-against-silver-point-to-leonard-litwin

http://justice.gawker.com/tweets-sum-up-relationship-between-andrew-cuomo-and-bil-1683531638

Wayne Barrett, who wrote fine muckraking columns for the Voice when it was a newspaper, on Dean Skelos et al:

With all the focus on Shelly Silver and his Assembly apparatchiks, let’s not forget New York’s state Senate, where four of the last five majority leaders have been indicted and the fifth, Dean Skelos, is reportedly under investigation....

The swamp is so deeply bi-partisan that Democrat (Malcolm) Smith was bribing Republican county leaders to get the Republican line, Democrat (Pedro) Espada was initially installed as leader by Republicans, and (Joe) Bruno, who claimed years ago that Silver’s outside income inspired his own consulting career, just derided Silver’s prosecutors as “out of control.”

...It is comforting to note that local comedian Al Sharpton hosted new speaker Heastie at his National Action Network over the weekend and declared that any attempt to change the three-men-in-a-room nirvana in Albany would now be seen as racist. Along with a prayer blessing for Heastie, Sharpton issued a threat: “If you mess with Carl, you’re messing with us.”

“Don’t talk about breaking up the trio now. We just got into the trio,” Sharpton said, forgetting that Smith, Sampson and ex-governor David Paterson were recently part of the three, actually outnumbering white men at one point. It’s hard to believe Sharpton might’ve forgotten Paterson, Smith and (John) Sampson, since all were involved with him in the Aqueduct scandal, with Sharpton collecting $100,000 in NAN contributions from bidders on the $3 billion, 30-year racino contract, the richest in state history.

We haven’t heard from the Greeks yet about what they will do if they lose their man in the room, Dean Skelos, the state senator from Rockville Centre in Long Island who succeeded Bruno. Hemlock is always an option. Jonathan Dienst, the Emmy-Award winning WNBC reporter who broke the Skelos story, says Bharara is investigating the majority leader’s ties to the real estate industry....

http://cityandstateny.com/2/politics/new-york-state-articles/new-york-state-senate/the-dean-of-the-senate.html#.VN4gPPnF9yy

as rumored, Skelos & Son

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/nyregion/dean-skelos-new-york-senate-leader-and-son-are-arrested-on-corruption-charges.html

deBlasio unloads on Cuomo! (and all the right people are appalled, it seems)

http://gothamist.com/2015/06/30/mayor_de_blasio_is_sick_tired_of_go.php