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

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

Wow. Head of NYC Board of Elections tells @azi that long lines (up to 4 hrs!) = ‘robust democracy’:
‘Instead of us looking at that as a negative, we should look at that, “Wow, look at all the people that are coming out to vote!”’ https://t.co/rHgw2KBj7d

— Andy Newman (@andylocal) November 6, 2018

gtfo

welcome to the minority caucus, Simcha Felder, you cockroach.

what a well-formed joek

As he started a gaggle with reporters a little while ago, Gov. Cuomo joked that he wanted them to take a step back: "Space. We need space. Or I'll bring you all up on charges under the Me Too movement."

This was received awkwardly.

— Nick Reisman (@NickReisman) January 9, 2019

BREAKING: The New York state Senate's Democratic majority has passed a bill to finally establish early voting!

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) January 14, 2019

fuck you

"What happened is the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government," Andrew Cuomo says of the blown-up Amazon deal.

— Jon Campbell (@JonCampbellGAN) February 22, 2019

Anybody have an opinion on the Public Advocates?

Jumaane Williams has almost all the prog endorsements + the NYT, will be hard to beat.

The Working Families Party helped Democrats regain power in New York. Now Democrats are trying to kill it. https://t.co/DA0X8KPjb0 by @ryangrim

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) March 6, 2019

now i would just name the thread "laughing at Cuomo"

https://t.co/FTttlF9sUb pic.twitter.com/9SP3pQy3Ot

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 8, 2019

Cuomo speaking and getting a bit...weird. Paraphrasing but: “I can’t refer to a terminal as ‘sexy.’ That opens other questions. Is the terminal male or female? What’s its orientation? How do you touch the terminal?” pic.twitter.com/Hlj5159mPs

— David Slotnick (@David_Slotnick) May 15, 2019

his instincts are peerless across the board

if he doesn't think buildings can be sexy his imagination is even more impoverished than it seemed

“It seems to be that the democratic socialist wing of the Democratic Party is in full control of the state government,” Mr. Martin added. “I think this is the official declaration of that.”https://t.co/ebVxZn0Qu0

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 13, 2019

“I think I’m sort of a laid back, cool dude in a loose mood," said Andrew Cuomo, just now.

— “loves to mouth off” nolan (@ndhapple) June 14, 2019

"I am the left. I am the left!" @NYGovCuomo said on WAMC. "What person in this state has done, accomplished, more progressive things than me?"

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) July 9, 2019

Cuomo speaking at a Syracuse jobs-related event:

"There’s a concept in life, called, foreplay…it starts with 'hello. how are you?'"

— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) October 9, 2019

smooth operator

In Year 1 of the all Democratic control of Albany: Cuomo rejected 43 more bills last night. Since Jan, he's vetoed 160 bills from a busy legislative session. That's the most - if I'm doing my math correctly via LRS bill tracking system - since becoming governor in 2011.

— Tom Precious (@TomPreciousALB) December 21, 2019

Gov. Cuomo has designed this poster as a visual representation of where he sees New York in 2020 -- both the accomplishments and the symbolic stormy sea. He's been giving it to people at the Capitol. https://t.co/4emgjy79uJ pic.twitter.com/YXAunNQepj

— Nick Reisman (@NickReisman) January 9, 2020

did he hire ben garrison?

I ... love that?

the miserable lettering renders it worthless

went to all this trouble to make an old timey broadsheet but didn't hire a letterer smdh

the bad/earnest cringe is the best cringe

he's def planning to run vs Pence in 2024

why indeed

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-cuomo-public-financing-20200129-bwuysuixgreu7cxap5w7jueefu-story.html

seems well-intentioned and not at all ominous https://t.co/60z9JuEevI

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 2, 2020

awesome emergency cuomopowers

This bill gives @NYGovCuomo the power to issue directives in the event of: FIRE, FLOOD, EARTHQUAKE, HURRICANE, TORNADO, HIGH WATER, LANDSLIDE, MUDSLIDE, WIND, STORM, WAVE ACTION, VOLCANIC ACTIVITY,
EPIDEMIC, DISEASE OUTBREAK, AIR CONTAMINATION, TERRORISM, CYBER EVENT ...

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) March 3, 2020

… BLIGHT, DROUGHT, INFESTATION, EXPLOSION, RADIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT, NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, OR BACTERIOLOGICAL RELEASE, WATER CONTAMINATION, BRIDGE FAILURE OR BRIDGE COLLAPSE. …

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) March 3, 2020

… ANY SUCH DIRECTIVE MUST BE NECESSARY TO COPE WITH THE DISASTER AND MAY PROVIDE FOR PROCEDURES REASONABLY NECESSARY TO ENFORCE SUCH DIRECTIVE.

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) March 3, 2020

pretty sure we're having WIND

probably a CYBER EVENT too

Everybody has wind every now and again, depending on dinner.

"blight" is very old timey

Everything old is et al

Wait. Did @NYGovCuomo just announce a whole spate of 90-day #COVID19 mortgage relief policies… and NOTHING for renters?

— Seth Pollack (@sethmpk) March 19, 2020

https://t.co/EnK3oYTPSZ pic.twitter.com/tDGIU33f4U

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 28, 2020

via max

Sean Petty of @nynurses says NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is the "single most important person in terms of the drive to close down hospital beds in this state over the last 20 years. … We are now 20,000 beds behind where we need to be in terms of trying to scale up our capacity." pic.twitter.com/xjHjoyA6qk

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) March 25, 2020

My accountant just sent me this breakdown for freelance folks out there:

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/03/coronavirus-stimulus-how-to-get-unemployment-aid-for-freelancer-contractor-part-time-workers-typically-left-out.html?outputType=amp

pull quote:

"Begin by visiting your state’s labor department or equivalent website. For New Yorkers, head to labor.ny.gov. If you are not traditionally eligible for unemployment benefits, begin the standard unemployment insurance application process, and apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance."

pull quote from NY LABOR site:

"Filing a new Unemployment Insurance claim? The day you should file is based on the first letter of your last name. Last names starting with A - F, file on Monday. Last names starting with G - N, file on Tuesday. Last names starting with O - Z, file on Wednesday. If you missed your filing day, file on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Filing later in the week will not delay your payments or affect the date of your claim; all claims are effective on the Monday of the week in which they are filed"

soooo.... if today is your day, get on it.

The final part of the application process requires a phone call to an actual person, and I've seen lots of reports of people using autodialers, trying for a week, and never getting through. So this is going to be fun.

yeah i've heard the same thing. what else am i gonna do

California's Democratic Party seems to be equally full of unprincipled careerists and industry-captured lackeys as New York's but with far fewer outright saboteurs and Republican collaborators. And a higher level of basic competence. I would trade in a heartbeat!

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 13, 2020

There are almost 1000 people infected in NY prisons (staff and people incarcerated). These numbers are only going to get worse, and yet Gov. Cuomo hasn't given a single reprieve or commutation, even though he has the absolute authority to do it. He is responsible for this. https://t.co/XxDDWRvWi5

— Rachel Barkow (@RachelBarkow) April 18, 2020

still waitin' on Google?

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-in-ny-is-still-a-kafkaesque-mess

Of the $10.1 billion in spending cuts Andrew Cuomo will foist on New York, more than $8 billion will be for aid-to-localities. What does this mean? Everything. Public schools, mass transit, social services. The stuff New Yorkers need a budget for.

— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) April 26, 2020