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

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

Ah austerity, good

nycabsentee.com

to get urs absentee ballot

tyvm

I think I can write in Lupe Fiasco for the primary

I know Cuomo is still a goblin, but I can't lie, I love it when it attacks McConnell and Republicans over holding back COVID funding to New York, bringing up that we pay out way more federal money than comes in, year and year out And he reminded that we always fund hurricanes and floods and disasters (rightfully) but now that we need the money, as the hardest hit state, now there's all this bullshit. Glad that someone is actually standing up and fucking saying it.

https://t.co/pWiVrGkcT7

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 23, 2020

https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-launches-terrible-rent-relief-measure-giving-tenants-just-two-weeks-sign-

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edn3M1HXkAAH0MC?format=png&name=large

what a loser

cuomo blowing up decades of mutually-understood lax food service enforcement more or less due to a tantrum of his own devising is very cuomo https://t.co/4AceFNiPTh

— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) July 23, 2020