Andrew Cuomo breaks all promises, except to Republicans

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Monday, November 10, 2014, 3:25 pm
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Nope, still not presidential material. Not that he ever was.
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Once upon a time, NY's odious Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised to be a good Democrat in order to hold off a spirited challenge from the Working Families Party. He fed them a bunch of bullshit about pursuing their policies (promises he broke literally the next day), and also promised to help Democrats regain the state Senate.
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The clueless dolts at the Working Families Party bought it, as did people like NY Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite Cuomo's entire history of being a raging asshole. Everyone came together for the good of New York Democrats.
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Except that at the same time, Cuomo was making promises to another group of people.
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The state's most powerful Republican secretly worked for months to help Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo win re-election - in exchange for Cuomo's promise not to aid Senate Democrats in their Long Island races, a top New York GOP leader has charged.
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Now one may say, "Why should we believe some sour-grapes Republican running to the NY Post making these claims"? The reason is obvious: because Cuomo did absolutely zero to help NY Senate Democrats win. He withheld endorsements, raised no money, made no joint campaign appearances, and even undermined several Democratic candidates.
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So given promises to Democrats and Republicans regarding this November's elections, Cuomo decided to fulfill the promises he made to Republicans, while making a mockery of those he made to Democrats and the idiot Working Families Party.
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And you know the irony of it all? Cuomo has done everything he has in the last year aiming for a dramatic bipartisan victory that would propel him into the upper tier of White House hopefuls. But when the dust cleared last Tuesday?
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Cuomo had won, sure, but so much for his dominant victory, garnering less than 53 percent of the vote. The hapless Republicans got nearly 41 percent. Cuomo won 63-33 in the previous GOP wave of 2010. And even that was worse than Eliot Spitzer's 70-29 victory in 2006. Furthermore, two other Democrats got more votes than Cuomo-the Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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So Cuomo stabbed so many Democrats in the back to get a lopsided victory that never materialized. So while there wasn't much to celebrate last week, at least we have that: Cuomo's national ambitions deteriorated this year, and that's certainly something to be grateful about.
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