Well, this is one way to fire up the base:
Andrew M. Cuomo will mount a presidential-style permanent political campaign to counter the well-financed labor unions he believes have bullied previous governors and lawmakers into making bad decisions. He will seek to transform the state’s weak business lobby into a more formidable ally, believing that corporate leaders in New York have virtually surrendered the field to big labor.
However, it may not be the best way.
New York’s “weak” business lobby? And it’s not snark?
Not a surprise though. In the wake of Citizen’s United all politics will be geared to appealing to corporate base funders.
that was my basic reaction.
Now that Dem is brimming with grace, aplomb.
Is this like George Costanza’s opposite day?
Wow. His daddy must be apologizing to the cosmos for engendering this assholish bastard. Time to start planning for the next primary.
Has Cuomo held any campaign events at all? About 6 months ago .. I figured out he was just another clownish DLC Democrat. There is no way he’ll ever win the Democratic nomination for President(were he to ever run). And do NY Governors have term limits?
Of course he’s rallying the base. His base.
It’s similar to the Rossi v. Murray Senate race here, where both campaigns have been busy trying to paint the other as beholden to out-of-state big business. And, of course, they both are. This is our post-Citizens United democracy: we get to choose which corporations and industries to ally ourselves with. It can still be a significant choice, but it’s not to be confused with a genuine representative democracy.
Instead, it reminds me of Iran’s elections. Within a fairly narrow pre-screened range, there’s still clear choices. But woe to the politician that steps outside those lines. That’s where we’re headed with our two-party system unless there’s some kind of a check on all the corporate cash.
I agree, except that Cuomo is up by thirty points in the polls. He doesn’t need to be rallying anyone and there is no need for anyone to throw money at his race, on either side.
What’s important are the down-ticket races, and we need Dems to turn-out to save some House seats.
This is a fairly common phenomenon, especially in the House, where uncontested or barely contested races are common yet you still see some candidates working hard to rake in huge amounts of money they obviously don’t need. It’s always mystified me. There’s plenty of rationalizations that get offered, but often as not the money just gets wasted, or squirrelled away for some hypothetical campaign down the road. In the end, often as not, I suspect it’s an ego thing for the candidate and their endless need for validation.
Actually this is roughly the way American politics were in the era of TR. Whoever didn’t give him big campaign contributions were discovered to be guilty of anti-trust violations.
someone please show Mr Cuomo the GOP HQ.
The Health Care Debacle and my continued inability to get a policy rallied me out of the base a long time ago. I’ll walk a block and go vote against Whitman and Fiorina because they’re more annoying that scabies, but my donations went down from $3,000 to nothing, my campaign work from hundreds of hours to nothing, and my faith in democrats, and the process itself, has gone down below zero.
Yes and today he comes out strongly against medical marijuana. Spitzer was for it. But Cuomo railed against Paladino for being soft on this issue.
So who is running as the Democrat in this race?