Andrew Cuomo was form sufficient to spend two hours with us Monday — and show that he hasn’t modified a whit.
For those who disagree with him, it’s politics. He can’t title an precise mistake he made, can barely say what he’d have completed in a different way.
His marketing campaign and people coming spherical to supporting him are bought on the concept he’s going to face as much as the left.
However the emperor has no garments. The left gained floor his complete time as governor, to the purpose that it was setting the Albany agenda at the same time as he was appeasing it to get his pet initiatives (congestion pricing, the lunatic Local weather Act) handed.
However the dangerous payments he signed into legislation would’ve been even worse with out him, he claims.
If, that’s, he’ll even admit they had been dangerous: The opposite day, he was insisting the no-bail legislation is completely high quality, a minimum of now that it’s been repeatedly tweaked. The true drawback at this level is judges and prosecutors, he says.
Besides that, pressed to defend the legislation, he factors to the irrelevant stats the left used to pitch it within the first place, then pretends (because the left does) that this was the one option to stop one other Khalief Browder from being jailed for 2 years with out ever coming earlier than a choose.
And by no means thoughts that Browder did come earlier than a choose eight instances — together with twice earlier than then-Supreme Courtroom Justice Darcel Clarke, now Bronx district legal professional — earlier than his suicide.
As mayor, Cuomo says, he’ll have extra power in opposition to lefties on the Metropolis Council than he did as governor vs. the progs within the Legislature.
Good luck with that!
The Albany left is New York Metropolis’s fundamental drawback, and as mayor he’d have much less energy to combat it than governors do. Excuse us if we take his tough-guy pretensions with an enormous pinch of salt, primarily based on previous efficiency.
And given the sphere of lefties he’s operating in opposition to within the Dem main, Cuomo, like he did as governor, is tacking left to enchantment to that voter base.
As a mayoral candidate, he gained’t even say that he gained’t again progressive DA Alvin Bragg’s re-election marketing campaign.
In the meantime, the ex-gov and his crew are as slippery as ever.
When the editorial board quotes again to him his phrases in October 2020 on the top of his warfare with Trump — “I believe it’s going to be a really skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they need to be” — an aide claims we’re “cherrypicking.” Huh? He mentioned it on “Good Morning America.”
Overlook about attending to the underside of the entire sordid nursing-home mess: His evasions, distortions and distractions are infinitely layered.
The ex-gov is relentless in pitching his model of actuality (don’t let him begin exhibiting you slides!), indomitable in dodging direct challenges, fearless in shifting accountability, heroic in posturing as the one rational man.
He’s operating as the one man who can save New York Metropolis, by erasing each little bit of historical past that reminds us how badly he failed the individuals of New York state earlier than.
