3/11/2013
E.J. McMahon Calls Out A Cuomo Budget Gimmick
A risky budget gimmick(NYP) Cuomo raids insurance fund Cuomo is cruising toward his third consecutive on-time state budget, which will no doubt be cited as further evidence that a new era of fiscal responsibility has dawned in Albany. Yet the governor hasn’t turned his back on budget gimmickry.* Senate GOP call out Cuomo budget cuts for women(NYDN) * Bronx advocates urge local politicians to push back against proposed state cuts to agencies for the disabled (NYDN)* Both the Assembly and the Senate will pass one-house budget resolutions today to stake out negotiating positions with Cuomo in budget talks, with the Senate’s resolution, the Times-Union writes * Pols ending $pinal tap(NYP)
1/23/2013
To Be First With Gun Control Law Cuomo Made Skelos An Offer He Could Not Refuse
1/17/2013
Cuomo Moved From Center Stage to Liberal to Capature Obama Left Coalition That Won Him the Presidency in 2008/12
A Game of Chess
Quick-draw gov top gun(Goodwin, NYP) Getting a gun-control package through the Legislature while the rest of the America is still talking puts New York, and him, ahead of the pack. Gun control makes a good example. The uproar over the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School created a mandate for politicians to do something. Just what isn’t entirely clear, given the nation’s strong gun culture and the fact that recent mass shootings were carried out by young men with known mental-health disorders. * Cuomo Gloats After Albany Fires Off Gun Control(NY1) * The Glens Falls Post-Star on Cuomo’s use of a message of necessity for the SAFE Act: “This was not an emergency. But the governor’s abuse of power is quickly becoming one.”* Cuomo Defends Gun Control Plan in Feisty Debate With Dicker(NYO)
Cuomo Runs the Senate Through Triangulation Leadership While Washington Gridlocks On Guns
For years the senate GOP blocked stronger gun control. With the fear of losing control to the new democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins in the senate in the background Skelos folded for his new master Cuomo. If Obama get any gun control past the house GOP it will be a long long slog. * The Court of Appeals decided against considering an appeal by Republicans in the state Senate race between Republican George Amedore and Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk, paving the way for the counting of an additional 99 ballots, the Associated Press writes * Court Clears Ballot Count(WSJ) * Some lawmakers vow to ignore Obama gun restrictions(WABC)* President Obama unveiled the most comprehensive federal gun-control plan in decades, but even some of his supporters tacitly acknowledged that major parts of what he is proposing are unlikely to make it into law. * Says the Syracuse Post-Standard: “(I)t’s regrettable that such a worthy end was achieved by such dubious means.”* Cuomo defending speedy approval of gun laws: he says the Legislature didn't have to go along with it.* How Often Are Messages Of Necessity Used?(YNN) * Senate Coalition: Public Backs Us(YNN)* Since striking a power-sharing deal with the GOP, the Independent Democratic Conference and its members hired nine new employees with salaries totaling about $349,000.* Big pay for rogue Dems(NYDN)
Cuomo Has Also Gamed Campaign Contribution Reform
1/6/2013
Cuomo On the Spot This Year
Cuomo Bypasses AG/Controller to Go After No Profits Pay
State Panel to Review Pay of Leaders at Nonprofits(NYT) * Goo-goos caution against a “witch hunt.”* The governor launched a task force to conduct the probe after a NYT story on Medicaid-funded providers whose executives earn more than $500,000. Cuomo called those salaries “startlingly excessive.”
True News Wednesday October 10,2012
Tax hell makes NY dead last for biz(NYP)
New York state’s business-tax climate has gone from bad to worst.The
Empire State has dropped from an already terrible 49th place to last in
the nation in the latest Tax Foundation ranking. Plus a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the county. Will Cuomo Reform A Corporate Takeover of NY Politics?
Hedge Funds Rise as N.Y. Political Force(WSJ) Common
Cause will release a report today highlighting how hedge funds have
emerged as a force in New York state politics, funneling tens of
millions of dollars to political parties, pet causes and candidates
from both major parties, the Wall Street Journal. * National push targets Cuomo, NY campaign reform(WSJ) Hedge fund campaign contributions increased 73.5 percent when Cuomo was elected governor – rising from $4.1 million in 2006 (when Spitzer won the governor’s race) to $7.1 million.
In response to news that advocates would be flooding his inbox with
letters urging him to support campaign finance reform, Gov. Andrew
Cuomo told the Associated Press that he was working on a legislative
package for passage this session. In response to news that advocates
would be flooding his inbox with letters urging him to support campaign
finance reform, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Associated Press that he
was working on a legislative package for passage this session. A national coalition of advocacy groups is pushing Governor Andrew Cuomo on campaign finance reform. * Conservative Party: Keep Taxpayer Dollars Out Of Campaigns * Silver May Push Public Financing For Comptroller’s Race(YNN) * Hedge Fund Donor List Raises Question: Is Cuomo "Governor 1%"? (WNYC) * @cbRangel campaign mgr: Oscar de la Renta is 'poster child 4 the 1 %
Dicker A Reporter Close to Cuomo to Write A Book About Him 
Dicker gets deal to write bio of Cuomo(NYP) .@fud31 nets 6-figure deal w/HarperCollins to pen Cuomo bio. Unlike Shnayerson, Dicker to get "cooperation" from admin. The Post’s Fred Dicker landed
a six-figure deal with HarperCollins (owned by the Post) to pen
Cuomo’s bio. The book is due out in mid-2013 – just as Cuomo is
preparing to seek re-election. Unlike Vanity Fair writer Michael
Shnayerson, who signed his own deal two months ago, Dicker will have
the full cooperation of the governor and his staff. To clarify: The
Cuomo admin says that while it will cooperate w/ Dicker, it did not give
him permission to write the book. * Gov. Andrew Cuomo biographer’s Fred
Dicker lashed out
during his radio show at NYT reporters who questioned his deal to pen
what he says is NOT an officially sanctioned tome about the governor.* Another Cuomo Biography Is Announced(NYT)* An online poll of possible book titles for Fred Dicker’s Cuomo bio. *Fred Dicker’s previous bouts: the scorecard (updated with video)(TU) * Fred Dicker To Write Biography Of Andrew Cuomo: The Bromance Continues (Village Voice)
Public Like the Order Cuomo Has Brought to Albany But Does Not Like His Secret Ways
In a shock to no one, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s effort to pass an on-time budget has earned him record high approval numbers, according to a new Siena poll. Seventy-three percent of voters view him favorably, but only four out of 10 say Cuomo has made state government more open and transparent * Despite the governor’s popularity, candidates seeking to lead the Public Employees Federation are running on an anti-Cuomo platform, characterizing the governor as an anti-worker ally of Wall Street, the Times-Union says
WSJ: Cuomo and Cuomo Schneiderman: "A fraught relationship - civil on the surface but rippling with unease"
Cuomo Digs, Schneiderman Parries Interviews with the two Democrats' closest aides and friends suggest a fraught relationship—civil on the surface but rippling with unease. (WSJ) At suggestion Cuomo is trying to upstage AG Eric Schneiderman, Josh Vlasto attacks: “Anyone who thinks the governor hasn’t been doing the job of governor is living in a different state – namely the state of delusion.”* The CSEA contract vote result is expected today.
The NYT Says Slams Cuomo's Closed Door Meeting with Executives & Lobbyists Some Who Paid $50,000 to Attend
. . . NYP Says Dems Feeling the Love to the Gov
Cuomo Defends Closed Session With Executives and Lobbyists(NYT) * Gov. Andrew Cuomo Defends Role At Democratic Fundraiser (WCBS) * Andy feeling the Dem love(NYP) * Cuomo Draws A Crowd At Democratic Governors Association Fundraiser(NY1)
Cuomo Keeps His Friends Close and His Potential Enemies Even Closer
Cuomo Brings Potential Foes Into His Fold(WSJ) Gov. Andrew Cuomo has built closer relationships with so-called good government groups than perhaps any of his predecessors, folding into his tent a wide spectrum of potential critics on matters of transparency, ethics and campaign finance. Cuomo has built strong ties with good government groups over the years, granting them millions of dollars while serving as attorney general, and recently helping ethics watchdog David Grandeau land a high-paying consulting gig.
Voters Like Cuomo's Work but Not His Methods, Poll Finds(NYT)
Andrew Cuomo’s approval ratings are still sky-high, but voters disapprove of the secretive, closed-door budget negotiations and of the governor’s decision to let legislators draw their own district lines, a new Quinnipiac poll says * Q poll: NYers approve ofCuomo's Triangulation
State Republicans are touting their ability to work with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which both Democrats and Republican voters like, in campaign advertisements this fall
NYT Editorial Calls For Pension Reforms "So far, Mr. DiNapoli and other legislative leaders appear to be resisting any move to dilute the comptroller's sole control over investing this enormous public treasure. It is time for them to recognize that New York's pension is too big and the slide into corruption is too easy for one person to keep it safe and invest it wisely," writes the Times. . .
What the NYT Editorial does not talk about is the NYC's pension funds. Yes there is a board that makes the final decisions in the city, but the mayor's attacks against Thompson during the campaign that the city comptroller got a quarter of his campaign funds from middle men who have business with his office Mayor Bloomberg rips Thompson for taking cash from pension middlemen The fact of Bloomberg charges against Thompson's Pay to Play with the pension funds make it clear that the section of the NYT Editorial that calls for public campaign financing is not going to be enough to fix the problem. There must be smart transparency so that corruption like Hank Morris and Liberal Party leader Ray Harding who had nothing to do with campaign finance would get caught. The NYT editorial also did not report that fact that many of the money managers who are being investigated for Pay to Play with the California pension fund also do business with the city's pension fund. The leader of the new city comptroller John Liu transition team Carl McCall has a business as a money manager. True News has written about this often, so it is our conclusion that the NYT and others media are intentionally ignoring the connections. Pay to Play Pension Boss McCall Elliott Broidy contributed $5,000 to Public Advocate Betsey Gotbaum campaign in 2005. Gotbaum step son works for a money Manager firm called Blue Wolf which recieved over 60 million in city pension funds Pension Fund Pay to Play Hevesi Gotbaum: True News Exclusive* The Wolf at Thompson's Door
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