Which candidate are you supporting, Louis?
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/09/de-blasios-pledge-ill-be-a-new-type-of-mayor.html > > Several times, de Blasio cited Governor Andrew Cuomo’s management style > in Albany as a model to follow. Cuomo’s approach to labor negotiations > has been “much more consensus-oriented, much more respectful to labor, > yet has gotten the result—more so than, in many cases, Bloomberg did > with a more contentious approach,” the mayoral hopeful noted. “I think > you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and > get plenty done.” > > --- > > Counterpunch April 13, 2011 > Meet Chris Christie's Soul Mate > Cuomo the Cutter > by RALPH NADER > > When liberals and progressives have nowhere to go, New York’s new > Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo can move toward the corporatist-right > of the political spectrum with impunity. Brandishing an inherited $10 > billion state deficit, Cuomo has earned the following description in the > April 7th edition of The New York Times: > > "He has clashed with unions, who he believes have helped drive the state > toward bankruptcy. He has been praised by prominent conservatives like > Sarah Palin and Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he has taken thousands of > dollars in campaign money from the New York billionaire David H. Koch, > who with his family has helped finance the Tea Party movement…. > > "The man who began public life advocating for homeless people won > passage of a state budget that makes steep cuts to schools, health care > and social services. In a year when Wall Street posted record profits, > Mr. Cuomo finally rejected a politically popular income tax surcharge on > the wealthy." > > Praised by the Wall Street Journal and the republican raptor, New Jersey > Governor Chris Christie, who calls Andrew Cuomo "my soul mate," the son > of moral vision orator, former Governor Mario Cuomo, is on a roll > unchallenged by his fellow Democrats and the media. Using the > deficit—which is far less per capita than Connecticut’s deficit—he > revels in being "Cuomo the cutter": "I am a realist… Forget the > philosophy. Here are the numbers." > > full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/04/13/cuomo-the-cutter/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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