Governor Cuomo’s problems are getting worse:
“Gov. Cuomo’s reputation has been severely damaged and his chances of running for president destroyed by revelations that he interfered with the Moreland Commission’s efforts to probe political corruption, influential Democrats have told The Post …”
I think he did himself in, at least on the national stage, with the SAFE Act. What Moreland has done is made very public how Andrew (and Albany) operates in private.
“… The Democrats, who called the disclosures in last week’s New York Times “a political game changer” and a “Cuomo nightmare,’’ said the scandal would also provide the first real boost to the campaign of Cuomo’s long-shot Republican rival, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. Aides to Astorino said over the weekend that they’ve seen a “significant uptick’’ in offers of support and campaign fund-raising as a result of the scandal — with $500,000 contributed over the past few days …”
Does this mean Chris Christie is now going to back Astorino, like other Republican Governors are? I think Christie hurt his own ’16 presidential ambitions by not supporting Astorino, and not just by decling to support a fellow Republican, but because it shows Christie wasn’t paying much attentional to the politics surrounding a potential opponent.
” … Insiders described Cuomo as “humiliated’’ and “paralyzed’’ and unable to develop a strategy to respond. “If Cuomo had a good argument to make he’d make it, but he doesn’t know what to do,’’ said a source close to the governor …”
I’m going with him continuing to be an asshole. It’s gotten him this far in politics.
“… The collateral damage from Cuomo’s actions to his fellow Democrats is considerable. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who, like Cuomo, has remained silent, was a central figure in the commission’s probe since he named several of its members and then granted them law-enforcement status. Yet Schneiderman, who said he was being kept regularly informed about the commission’s activities, said not a word about Cuomo’s actions. Either the hyper-political Schneiderman violated his promise to keep in touch with what was occurring — an unlikely situation — or he simply kept his mouth shut, insiders at the Capitol agree …”
I am included to believe it is the former. Schneiderman and Cuomo hate each other. It is my understand they hardly ever talk.
“… Meanwhile, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, a Moreland co-chair and Cuomo political ally who is running for a congressional seat on Long Island, also kept her mouth shut as Cuomo meddled with the commission and has yet to explain why …”
That’s great if it knocks out her Congressional campaign, but unlike Cuomo and Schneiderman, she would still have her job as Nassau D.A. until ’17.
Jacob,
I have heard some weird stories that Eric Schneiderman is actually a closet gun enthusiast and actually hangs out at a local gun shop in the Albany area. Lets play devils advocate and say that another reason these two hate each other is because he was forced into enforcing the safe act to save his butt and/or be the hero to the liberals and progressive swine in NYC???
Any thoughts on this, I take it with a grain of salt but there seems to be some type of truth to everything or we would of just closed down all these gun shows regardless. Sometimes I think there is more there……but could be wrong and hence me asking the question.
No. Schneiderman convinced some gun show promoters to let him use their shows to promote his agenda and himself. That is why he was seen at a bunch of shows upstate. He has no interest in firearms and little personal experience with them.