Andrew Cuomo

by KenSome of these passings are really hard, and this is a really hard one. Because Mario Cuomo was a politician and a genuinely decent human being. He respected people and understood the role government had to play in improving their lives.

When it comes to brazen public corruption there aren't many governors that hold a candle to Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Chris Christie (R-NJ), who, conveniently, scheme together on behalf of the same wealthy donor class who fund their miserable, shameful careers.

In Sunday's NY Times Eric Lipton exposed one of the most insidious contemporary conspiracies in American politics: a secret alliance between Republican Attorney Generals and Big Oil. The chart above may summarize one of its key raisons d'être, but we'll come back and look at in in a moment.

I used to wonder if I was the only person who regretted NYC letting the real estate developers "clean up" Times Square. I miss the seediness and grit, now replaced with the bland anti-reality charmlessness of DisneyWorld. I've seen similar homogenization initiatives ruin interesting and unique corners of the world from Thailand to tiny Essaouira in Morocco.

The ugly, happy faces of political dysfunction in New York: Skelos and CuomoSaturday we looked at the fallout from Andrew Cuomo's treachery in regard to Bronx state Senator Jeffrey Klein, leader of the small faction of right-wing fake Democrats who work with the New York GOP to keep the state Senate a conservative force.

New York State has 62 counties. A majority of voters in only 16 of them backed Andrew Cuomo's reelection as governor last week. He beat Republican Rob Astorino 1,919,225 (53.96%) to 1,443,713 (40.59%)-- with 173,606 votes (4.88%) for Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins.In September Cuomo spent $60.62 per voter to win a 62-35% victory over staunchly progressive icon, Zephyr Teachout, who managed to win 30 counties, several-- like Ulster, Sullivan, Columbia, Schoharie, Saratoga, Otsego, and Tompkins-- with over two thirds of the vote.

Andrew Cuomo, Jeffrey Klein-- same, sameBlue America didn't get involved with all that many state legislative races this cycle. But one we did work on was in the Bronx, for a reformer and former New York Attorney General, Oliver Koppell, who ran against an extremely corrupt fake Democrat from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, state Senator Jeffrey Klein.

"I get 'The Temple will be rebuilt' and 'The Messiahwill come.' But what does 'Hillary will run' mean?"by KenJust as I was about to make the official announcement that I'm officially sick of the 2014 election campaign, along comes The New Yorker's David Sipress, on his current stint as newyorker.com "Daily Cartoon"-ist, with the above cartoon, to remind me that I'm actually alre

As corrupt as Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Bob McDonnellOur friends at the Accountability Project are about to launch an investigative news site looking into criminals that run rampant inside of our political system. Any day now.

Tomorrow is election day in New York. Reform-minded Democrats are threatening to do the impossible: upend the career of a very powerful conservative Governor, Andrew Cuomo but defeating him and his handpicked right-wing candidate for Lieutenant Gov., banking lobbyist Kathy Hochul. Cuomo-Hochul represent all the worst of an Establishment that has treated the public with disdain and contempt.