http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/09/de-blasios-pledge-ill-be-a-new-type-of-mayor.html
Several times, de Blasio cited Governor Andrew Cuomo’s management style in Albany as a model to follow. Cuomo’s approach to labor negotiations has been “much more consensus-oriented, much more respectful to labor, yet has gotten the result—more so than, in many cases, Bloomberg did with a more contentious approach,” the mayoral hopeful noted. “I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.” --- Counterpunch April 13, 2011 Meet Chris Christie's Soul Mate Cuomo the Cutter by RALPH NADER When liberals and progressives have nowhere to go, New York’s new Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo can move toward the corporatist-right of the political spectrum with impunity. Brandishing an inherited $10 billion state deficit, Cuomo has earned the following description in the April 7th edition of The New York Times: "He has clashed with unions, who he believes have helped drive the state toward bankruptcy. He has been praised by prominent conservatives like Sarah Palin and Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he has taken thousands of dollars in campaign money from the New York billionaire David H. Koch, who with his family has helped finance the Tea Party movement…. "The man who began public life advocating for homeless people won passage of a state budget that makes steep cuts to schools, health care and social services. In a year when Wall Street posted record profits, Mr. Cuomo finally rejected a politically popular income tax surcharge on the wealthy." Praised by the Wall Street Journal and the republican raptor, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who calls Andrew Cuomo "my soul mate," the son of moral vision orator, former Governor Mario Cuomo, is on a roll unchallenged by his fellow Democrats and the media. Using the deficit—which is far less per capita than Connecticut’s deficit—he revels in being "Cuomo the cutter": "I am a realist… Forget the philosophy. Here are the numbers." full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/04/13/cuomo-the-cutter/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
