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Gay Marriage, Budget and Reforms: Andrew Cuomo Takes Albany

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micro, most of us NYer's are very pleased with Our Governor. He knows how to work with people, on both sides of the issues & get things done for the good of the people!
What a way to govern!
Washington should emulate this method. clo

Gay Marriage, Budget and Reforms: Andrew Cuomo Takes Albany

Monday, June 27, 2011

By Joyce Purnick : WNYC Political Analyst

New Yorkers can, for the moment at least, relax. An adult is in charge.

For longer than the public would like to remember, New York's state government has been dysfunctional, its governors ineffective, erratic or both. Now comes Andrew Cuomo, who, during his first six months in office, has actually gotten things done. Even those who do not approve of his policies have to acknowledge his mastery of Albany's maddening game of three-dimensional chess.

A list of his main accomplishments:

He got same-sex marriage through the legislature, recognizing that what seemed impossible was not. Cuomo put his reputation on the line to win over a recalcitrant Republican State Senate, orchestrating the complex strategy that involved everything from fundraising to personal persuasion, even putting a top political aide in charge of the lobbying and ad campaigns.

He negotiated rather than dictated concessions from the public employee unions, without scapegoating them or waging an ideologically driven war the way some governors did, chief among them Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Chris Christie of New Jersey.

Cuomo persuaded reluctant fellow Democrats to go along with a property tax cap, and engineered a compromise on rent regulations that gave Democrats and Republicans something - but less than both sides wanted. He presided over the smoothest budget process in years, and he demonstrated fine-tuned political skill in dealing with the two powerful state legislative leaders, managing to avoid a public dispute with either one. 



Cuomo has not aced every issue he has touched. His ethics reform is full of loopholes, he has yet to tackle public union pensions – the big-ticket labor issue – and is governing with an irritating lack of transparency. He punted on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to end the onerous system of laying off the most recently hired teachers first (Last Hired, First Out or LIFO). He has disappointed liberal Democrats and advocates for the poor with his statewide property tax cap, deep budget cuts and opposition to raising taxes on the wealthy.

To the frustration of his Democratic base, Cuomo has positioned himself as a centrist (a hint of national ambitions, perhaps?).

But so far, the approach has worked. Not since the 1970s, when Hugh Carey led the effort to save New York City from an imminent threat of bankruptcy, has a governor of New York been as focused, or accomplished as much as Cuomo has since January.

Six months is just that - six months. Maybe New York's infamously feckless state government will regress, and reality will catch up with the new governor.
Or maybe Andrew Cuomo is on his way to fundamentally changing Albany's long-embarrassing reality. 


http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/jun/27/gay-marriage-budget-and-reforms-andrew-cuomo-takes-albany/




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Re: Gay marriage fight shows N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is no rookie
By: micro in POPE
Mon, 27 Jun 11 3:33 PM 		Msg. 38391 of 65535

Good morning DG!

The way I see it, New York as a state has become exactly what it deserves and the people who live there will soon discover just how freaking bankrupt literally as well as morally that place is.

There should not be complaint number 1 from those fine liberals.

Did you notice that the fiscally and morally conservative states do not have these issues to anywhere near the same degree? Many are on solid economic footing. Those are the ones Obummer wants to get their money and give to the mismanaged union strongholds, you know, the greedy ones who just cannot contain themselves.

They spend like there is no tomorrow and do not believe anybody is capable of being personally responsible for their own choices and decisions.

They never saw a liberal cause they didn't like and throw money they don;t have at it and then want to "BORROW" the money they need to stay running from the government, who gets it from the rest of us who were fiscally responsible and did without all our WANTS, so we wind up subsidizing those spendocrats.

Great ain't it? No wonder folks want to own their own private islands and instill their own values that work there, like those the founding father's laid out in the Constitution, which has been maimed and trodden under foot by many a progressive President.

They should ALL be tried for treason, breach of oath of office, all benefits stripped from them, and put in a federal prison. Period. I don't care what Party they belong to.

I think that means everyone back to Reagan. Then we have Carter, Nixon, JFK, Johnson,FDR, all guilty as charged, including Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

All traitors of the United States of America.

Today, I am looking for only ONE HONEST CANDIDATE for President, who will strictly adhere to the CONSTITUTION, FIRE all LIBERAL FEDERAL JUDGES who have been political activists, and lets fire some Supreme's while we are at it. The last two in particular come to mind. UNQUALIFIED, period.

Yeah man. Of course, non of this will happen and America will continue down the toilet the progressive libs have taken it.

It has to be. There will be a one world government, one financial system, and this is the path it is going. All this must come to pass.

micro....

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