Just symbolically purging Andrew Cuomo’s legacy – Latest News
After a decade as New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo left an extraordinarily combined legacy; the state could be much better off if it may ditch a lot of it.
Yet the one main exercise we see on this entrance is a petition that calls on the Legislature to tug Gov. Mario Cuomo’s title off the Tappan Zee Bridge.
On the one hand, Andrew principally rammed the dignity for his dad by means of the Legislature within the useless of night time; no person calls it that, and the highway indicators largely simply confuse of us; a related petition back in 2017 garnered over 100,000 signatures.
On the opposite hand, the new bridge wouldn’t have been constructed with out Andrew making it occur (different govs had simply talked about it, for not less than a decade), and it’s a fine-looking engineering marvel, a enormous enchancment over the construction Gov. Tom Dewey had thrown up within the Fifties — at one of the river’s widest stretches, crazily enough, as a result of he didn’t wish to cooperate with New Jersey to construct it any additional south.
Also: Mario was a gov many New Yorkers are blissful to honor.
Indeed, The Post was doubtless his harshest critic his whole three phrases in workplace, however the gov nonetheless stepped up to steer the negotiations that saved this paper from death and/or dishonor back in 1993, after the chapter of then-owner Peter Kalikow left us (briefly, thank God) within the clutches of varied nefarious characters.
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Much more important: State leaders needs to be undoing Andrew’s actively terrible legacy, akin to almost all of the laws he signed in 2019, from the no-bail law to the economically suicidal Climate Act to the lethal Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act to the payments that laid the groundwork for congestion-pricing.
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Undo all his expansions of tax subsidies for Hollywood; get all his picks off the state Parole Board.
To be honest, it seems to be like Gov. Kathy Hochul is attempting to stroll back not less than half of the Climate Act’s inexperienced madness — if solely to save lots of her own disguise by avoiding public fury over the hovering prices it’s beginning to impose.
Tragically, most of his legacy seems to be prone to final as a result of it’s much less clearly terrible, however actually it’s a disgrace Mario will get all of the grief.
