O Albany -- isn't the governance of New York as corrupt and unresponsive as any other state's?

I realize state politics is not the hottest topic right now, but the description of the Cuomo admin – widely driven by fear (& in some cases personal profit) & rife with sycophancy – as alleged in these 2 federal corruption trials is worth your attention.https://t.co/hfPW3B0CIZ

— erica orden (@eorden) July 6, 2018

Andy makes his happy-hour move

This small-dollar Cuomo event flagged by @CaseySeiler, on the eve of campaign filing deadline seems a pretty clear effort to have some small donors on his upcoming report https://t.co/f8mXkCfS2q

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 9, 2018

1) Not throwing public money at private businesses
2) Not relying on a convicted felon/lobbyist to be your 'eyes & ears' at a state agency
3) Not accepting campaign donations from contractors and bidders
4) See No. 1 https://t.co/n58vspCzA2

— Bill Hammond (@NYHammond) July 13, 2018

oopsie

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-resources-went-to-Cuomo-campaign-effort-13073450.php

The defining feature of every oafish thing Andrew Cuomo ever says is that he seems to have genuinely never thought about what you might say to an ordinary person to convince them you should have the job of being governor

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) July 14, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiU0K03UwAAjo6y.jpg:small

. . . nice

re-convicted! NYT:

Dean G. Skelos, once one of the most powerful political figures in New York State, was found guilty of bribery, extortion and conspiracy on Tuesday, marking the fourth time in five months that a major federal case targeting corruption in Albany has ended in a conviction.

The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan deliberated for three days before finding Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam, guilty; prosecutors said the elder Mr. Skelos, the former leader of the State Senate’s Republican majority, had wielded his political clout to pressure business executives to send his son around $300,000 for a patchwork of no-show or low-show jobs.

Both Mr. Skelos and his son were convicted on those charges in 2015, but their convictions were overturned last year after the Supreme Court limited the definition of public corruption.

'Best' part of this is that when an over-the-limit corporate donor is revealed, campaign says it was actually an LLC of same name, so no violation. State campaign finance laws are an incredible joke. https://t.co/UA7m0oJhx3

— Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) July 30, 2018

Pareene: the Prince vs the press

Spectrum News is one of the largest strictly local news outlets in the state, and its coverage of Albany in particular is vital and important. It is the primary place where millions of New Yorkers learn what is happening in the notoriously corrupt and opaque statehouse (it's worth noting that Spectrum's NY1 has scheduled a Democratic gubernatorial primary debate this month, which Cuomo has not committed to attending despite his apparent promise in May to debate progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon). Andrew Cuomo is threatening to blow it up, either because he doesn't care about the collateral damage of his war against Charter, or because blowing it up is the point of that war. In Spectrum's newsrooms, many journalists believe it's the latter.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-talks-about-a-war-on-the-press-andrew-cuomo-is-waging-one

I'm all about making memes today
https://i.imgflip.com/2g117k.jpg

Zephyr Teachout for NY AG

On Monday, I asked Tish James about the AG's office and state corruption, and this was her answer https://t.co/hjysqfD1Zz pic.twitter.com/H1Lv4rFJe5

— Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) August 22, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/nyregion/queens-candidates-nominated-without-knowing.html

probably could have posted in the democratic party and/or queens threads but it's remarkable how much worse this gets with every paragraph

As a Jew in August, I have to say: I'm with Cuomo on this one. https://t.co/WTN4oBQtjm

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) August 28, 2018

I'm glad she directly called him a liar a couple times. Might've been to Nixon's advantage to interrupt a little bit less, don't want to seem like "a pushy woman."

Cuomo being obsessed with proving that Nixon was "a corporation" bigger than the Koch Brothers was a weird tactic.

In fact, the MTA has not been declining for decades. For much of the first 10 years of the 2000s it was improving and rapidly. There's something that happened in New York in 2010 that started the decline. If only I could put my finger on it.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) August 29, 2018

lol

he's keith hernandez!

https://deadspin.com/ny-state-senate-candidate-julia-salazar-was-once-involv-1828859119

NYT showing buyer's remorse over the Prince

https://splinternews.com/after-endorsement-the-new-york-times-furiously-backped-1828926405

LETTER from state to contractor: “The authority will not hold T.Z.C. responsible for any traffic incidents(s) or damage to the work that results from shifting traffic on the bridge while all elements are not fully complete as permitted by this letter.” https://t.co/IdnEJJ99Z5

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) September 11, 2018

You know it's almost as if New York voting laws are designed to depress turnout and hand elections to shitty incumbents https://t.co/Z0kviouYM9

— Katie McDonough (@kmcdonovgh) September 12, 2018

Evergreen tweet

‼️‼️‼️New Yorkers & all NYCHA residents its time to get JUSTICE, VOTE Thur. Sept. 13 for Gov. Cuomo, Lt. Gov. Hochul & Tish James. They know how to work for the people to make NY even GREATER. Spread the word. See you at the Polls‼️‼️‼️

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) September 12, 2018

can i shamefully admit here i'm a bit torn about the Cuomo vs. Nixon primary

I don't have a vote and I don't think Nixon will win, but I think she is worth voting for

same

"experience"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/nyregion/cuomo-anti-semitism-nixon-flier.html

Nhex, Prince Andy has actively assisted in keeping the legislature from going Dem (if that helps)

I am not a NYer and know close to nothing about Cuomo’s administration but what I know is enough to convince me he is a machine politician of the most destructive sort and deserves a primary thrashing.

Like Charles Foster Kane would probably be a better choice than him

trouble with the rolls

https://splinternews.com/people-are-sharing-a-whole-slew-of-horror-stories-about-1829039353

rollin' with the cuomies

Cuomo: the 6 Senate IDC primary challenger wins last night were just "rearranging the deck chairs"

— Karen DeWitt (@kdewitt7) September 14, 2018

Whose deck chairs, exactly

http://www.mod16.org/imagemacros/emot-iiam.gif

so here's comparing the state to the Titanic? cool

The story isn't Cuomo, it's that Nixon turned out enough to crush the "blue dog" faction in the State Senate that gave Republicans control. There are a lot of bills coming Cuomo won't like. Either he fights and blows it all up or gives over and goes further left.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) September 14, 2018

I am disappointed that Nixon did not win. Also, in an empty office you can tell where the women sit because there are always sweaters or wraps on the back of the chair. It's freezing in the offices.

i sit with a fan on me at work all day. i wish it were freezing in the offices

.@NYGovCuomo on @amazon #HQ2:

"I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that’s what it takes."

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) November 5, 2018

^three-term whore

re NYC, deBlasio says vote YES on all 3 ballot questions, while Scott Stringer says YES-NO-NO. Has p4reene been heard from? anyone else?

I’m doing yes no no

this thread has me thinking yes no yes:

#flipyourballot and vote YES on Prop 3 tomorrow. Term limits for Community Boards, even if watered-down, are a step in the right direction.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) November 5, 2018

also this Medium article really lands the case for Yes on 3:

https://medium.com/@memosalazar/its-2018-and-new-york-still-doesn-t-care-about-your-vote-e9513bc2aea0

I think people's take on the term limit question depends on the character of the neighborhood that they care about. A historically Black neighborhood that's now targeted by developers and speculators is ill served by pushing elders off the board when they know the history and work to protect their community's heritage--but a historically white neighborhood that's now refreshed by immigration but refuses to transition the power structures to represent a now-Chinese or now Arabic-majority community is unrepresentative and inequitable.

I'm getting the sense that Queens is scenario #2 and so is South Brooklyn, but Central Brooklyn (Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, ENY, Crown Heights) is the former. In short, IDK but I'm prob going yes-yes-yes.

that's an interesting analysis - i definitely think of CBs mostly in terms of old white assholes in manhattan and brooklyn, fighting against bike lanes and bus improvements and having a mixed record at best on fighting gentrification. there may be other scenarios. but i wonder how critical "elders" really are - there are surely young members of endangered communities who'd be interested in serving, and are we really imagining that they'd all be quickly captured by smooth talk from developers (and that no elders have been similarly captured)?

Yeah I also question that which is why I'm willing to vote Yes on 3 even though my loyalties are with Bed Stuy.

I don't think there's a single white person on CB3, whose meetings I went to for years, and iirc there was no shortage of women leaders either. So the district I'm most familiar with doesn't fit the assumptions. But I've noted for years that while they can hound some cocky white aspiring cocktail bar entrepreneur and make them regret botching their liquor license request, they can't stop gentrification, and new bars still keep opening and filling up with people that are disrespectful to the neighborhood. So I don't know that the "we need elders" argument is that effective.

are we really imagining that they'd all be quickly captured by smooth talk from developers (and that no elders have been similarly captured)?

No I think the "bad" scenario here is pro development puppets and bougie white ppl who can afford to pay 2.5 mil for a brownstone just taking over the community boards and erasing the work of 70 years of community-building.

that's a reasonable thing to worry about! hmmm.

i did end up yes no yes

i also skipped the judges. we shouldn't be fucking voting for judges.

went at a bad time, but that was chaotically busy