Andrew Cuomo is just trolling now (Click here to read more)
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March 31, 2014.
New
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hell-bent on being the Progressive Villain
Number One. How else to explain his latest effort to screw Democrats?
.
It
all began innocently enough. Cuomo has long called for public
financing of elections to clean up Albany. Not only is that generally
laudable, but makes particular sense in New York's corruption-ridden
politics. He mentioned it in all his State of the State speeches, and
included it in his budget.
.
Problem
is, he's including it for one office only, the office of comptroller.
.
He
has raised $33 million for his re-election. He clearly has no desire
to either return the money, or give any challenger the chance to
challenge him on the public's dime.
.
So
there's hypocrisy involved, which for a politician, isn't actually
the worst sin. In this case, the worst sin is this:
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The comptroller is a Democrat and doesn't currently have a Republican challenger. If Cuomo is successful, not only would he get to pay lip service to the notion of public financing of elections, without actually putting his own skin on the line, but he would be essentially encouraging a free Republican challenge to the incumbent Democratic comptroller.
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