Andrew Cuomo is posing as the city’s savior after – Latest News
Perhaps the most pathetic side of Andrew Cuomo’s marketing campaign for mayor are his vows to ship for the metropolis on issues he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) in his decade-plus in the more highly effective place of New York governor.
He’s all of a sudden calling without spending a dime bus and subway fares for lower-income New Yorkers, for instance — when his heavy-handed mismanagement of the MTA led on to the 2017 summer time of hell.
Not to say how he looted the company’s funds for $5 million to bail out upstate ski resorts or the $100 million-plus he burned on ornamental lighting and tiles on the metropolis’s bridges and in tunnels.
Nor how he rammed these congestion-pricing tolls by means of the Legislature.
He additionally pushed an insane redo of Penn Station and messed up airport modernization.
Meanwhile, Cuomo as gov proposed nothing to make the metropolis more reasonably priced or manageable, different than when he was blocking unhealthy concepts from then-Mayor Bill de Blasio (and even that was more out of petty personal spite for Blas).
Recall, too, that Cuomo signed into law (and nonetheless defends!) the criminal-justice “reforms” such as Raise the Age and the no-bail insanity that drove up metropolis crime beginning in 2020.
Heck, he lauded “defund the police” as a reputable motion.
And his appointees to the state Parole Board are nonetheless springing cop-killers.
Meanwhile, even the place he had some virtues as governor, standing up for charters and opposing teacher-union excesses, he’s now flipped to the different facet.
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It’s simply laughable that he’s posing as the best hope to save lots of the metropolis from far-left Zohran Mamdani: As gov, Cuomo routinely claimed he was everybody’s solely hope in opposition to loopy progressive insurance policies — solely to sell out on all the pieces when the going bought powerful.
Indeed, he gave Mamdani a large increase by leaping into the Democratic mayoral major — turning into the prompt frontrunner on the foundation of nothing however identify recognition, but in addition a excellent foil the Democratic Socialist may use to vault to the prime even as different rivals have been starved for oxygen.
And having misplaced that race, Cuomo is nonetheless working as moderates’ best hope and so splitting the anti-Mamdani vote merely to serve his own cussed vainness.
Indeed, the No. 1 purpose to snicker at Andrew Cuomo’s vows to struggle for New York is his decades-long document of preventing just for himself.
