Please run a candidate Working Families Party. Please?

Andrew Cuomo realizes he has a problem on his left (Click here to read more)

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 7:17 pm
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Asshole Democrat and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is apparently wigged out at the Siena poll showing substantial support to his left for a Working Families Party candidate. The poll is certainly emboldening the WFP party to think big, either with a general election candidate that would seek to supplant the GOP as the state's #2 party (and its preferential place on the ballot and on commissions), or even by backing a Democratic primary challenge to Cuomo.
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After spending months gleefully shitting on liberals and rival elected Democrats (pretty much everyone not named "Cuomo"), the governor is suddenly on the defensive.

Cuomo gave a defense of his liberal street cred today http://t.co/...
- @CapitalTonight
Cuomo says that if liberals want public financing, Dream Act, WEA passed, then work to elect people who support those measures
- @CapitalTonight
Cuomo on WFP challenge: "I don't know if there's a lot of space to my left."
- @CapitalTonight

There is as much space to Cuomo's left as there was to Joe Lieberman's left, which is to say quite a bit. Heck, on economic matters, he's a Republican.
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But he's particularly wrong on that second tweet above. He says liberals should work to elect people who want those great liberal policies. Fair enough.
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But it was Cuomo who signed into law the extreme GOP gerrymander that gave Senate Republicans an unfair advantage in a state in which they can barely garner a third of the vote statewide. He even supported the GOP gerrymander after spending a year pretending to fight to reform the redistricting process. Kind of like how he pretended to clean up corruption in Albany.
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And still, Democrats took over the State Senate in 2012, despite that extreme gerrymander. But did Cuomo celebrate that? No, he tacitly supported a breakaway faction of Democrats that kept effective control of the chamber in Republican hands.
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And don't even get Bill de Blasio started on the ways the governor is sabotaging his initiatives, in a city in which three-quarters of the electorate voted for him.
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So liberals have done their part to shape New York to their liking. The only impediment left is Andrew Cuomo himself.