Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
The following article was terribly edited, if at all.
Andrew Cuomo wants to succeed where his late father Mario failed, in putting the first paisan in the White House. The socially liberal (pro-gay marriage) Cuomo’s plan is to do this through fiscal tight-fistedness, which is completely incompatible with de Blasio’s race war, cop-killer, rob-whitey politics.
Reader Joey Scarz commented,
Cuomo cant stand him! HaHaHa! I guess you shouldnt have pushed so hard for getto babysitting- I mean pre-k free for all and would have went behind cuomos back to get it! you forced his hand for state wide for fear of backlash from areas outside NYC...he isnt gonna be your buddy after that one!”
Lovett: Bill de Blasio ‘frustrated’ over harsh treatment from Andrew Cuomo
Monday, March 2, 2015, 2:30 A.M.
New York Daily News
New York Daily News Gov. Cuomo’s constant hostility has led a frustrated Mayor de Blasio to tell aides, 'I don’t know what to do.'
ALBANY — Mayor de Blasio is at his “wit’s end” over the harsh treatment he’s received from supposed good friend Gov. Cuomo since taking office, according to sources who say they spoke directly to the mayor.
De Blasio was seeking advice from people who are close to both himself and Cuomo on what he can do to improve his working relationship with a governor he believes has gone out of his way to routinely embarrass him.
“He was very direct,” one source said. “He just said, ‘I don’t know what to do. Why does he keep coming at me like this? I want it to work.’ He’s at wit’s end.”
Those close to de Blasio had hoped the two Democratic powerhouses turned a corner last May when the mayor helped deliver the liberal Working Families Party endorsement to Cuomo, who was seeking reelection, after a contentious battle.
But it’s been business as usual again so far this year. Cuomo’s office quickly poured cold water on a major housing proposal de Blasio unveiled in his recent State of the City address.
[The WFP, a black and Hispanic party, which was founded by people who considered the Democratic Party insufficiently racist, was a complete non-factor in the election. Cuomo routed Republican candidate Rob Astorino, 54-40%. The WFP provided Cuomo with a measly 120,000 votes, fewer than in 2010, and was clearly unenthusiastic in its support for the incumbent. By contrast, Cuomo got 1,949,000 votes on the Democratic Party line. Had no one voted for Cuomo on the WFP line, he still would have trounced Astorino. The Daily News is trying to make it sound as if Cuomo owed de Blasio a political debt.]
And this past week, Cuomo took the unusual step of holding a public event at the Capitol at the same time de Blasio was testifying at a nearby legislative hearing about the governor’s budget.
“He’s frustrated,” a second source said of de Blasio. “He’s trying to figure a way out of it.”
De Blasio officials deny he’s sought advice to deal with the governor.
“The mayor doesn’t waste his time worrying about personalities,” de Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell said. “His focus is delivering for New York City, something he’s been able to achieve in Albany on priorities ranging from pre-K for all to making streets safer. We’re proud of our record working with the state.”
A Cuomo administration official said that while the governor “likes and respects the mayor … the issue is a mayor’s natural frustration that the state controls so much of the city, and the fact that the mayor proposes ideas that are just nonstarters with the Legislature.”
One Capitol insider went further, questioning the mayor’s political acumen.
Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo share a rare happy moment together at a Memorial Day parade in Queens in 2014. But things have gone sour for the mayor, who wants to improve his working relationship with Cuomo. [They’re inside a restaurant, not at a parade!]
De Blasio last year launched a needless war with Cuomo over charter schools last year [sic] and stuck too long to his failed demand for a tax increase on the wealthy to fund prekindergarten [sic].
This year, they say, he is pushing for authorization for permanent mayoral control over the schools at a time when the Senate Republicans are looking to do him no favors after he tried to dislodge them from power last year and after the governor proposed just a three-year extension to the existing law.
“The mayor’s issue is competence, and a year into his administration, he should be focused on breaking 50% (in the polls), not fighting losing battles in Albany,” the insider said.
De Blasio isn’t the only Democrat with Cuomo issues.
Senate Dems say they’ve had enough of what they believe has been years of major disrespect from the Democratic governor, who they say did little last year to help their failed effort to defeat the Republicans for control of the chamber.
Senate Democratic leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who has been hesitant in the past to publicly criticize Cuomo, has been less reluctant this year. The Yonkers senator recently released one statement aimed at the governor decrying the “demonizing” of teachers and another critical of his decision to allow the leader of a breakaway group of five Senate Dems aligned with the GOP majority to participate in budget talks — but not her.
Her deputy, Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens), also called out Cuomo.
“To allow cheap politics to silence the only female leader in history whose conference represents 8 million New Yorkers while arbitrarily empowering others is beyond the pale,” Gianaris said.
One political observer said Cuomo may hurt himself:
“You can run that bullying game for just so long before you’ve p---ed off enough people that it all starts to add up and there’s no one left willing to stand with you.”
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