It will be a New Year's Eve and Day with few politicians for Andrew Cuomo and Robert Duffy. Only outgoing Governor Davis Paterson and Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings will be on hand for the mansion dinner and low key swearing in at the Capitol on Saturday.
I definately like the understated return of the Cuomo family to power. The last thing New Yorkers want to see is business as usual pomp.
Mr. Cuomo comes a week after the Census Bureau delivered the bad news that NY is losing two more Congressional seats because despite NYC being the immigrant point of entry, too many others are fleeing the Empire State for greener, less taxed pastures.
I will be listening intently to Mr. Cuomo's remarks from the Capitol. We all should...There is a lot riding on his ability to change the direction this state has been on.
A toast for Andy: Cuomos set to return to governor's mansion on New Year's Eve after 16 years away
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I do like very much that the swearing-in is not being celebrated in the usual pompous and tactless manor. But I remain extremely cautious and guarded with this guy.
As of yet, we have not heard mention of repealing even one of the stupid laws passed over the last 30 years. Not one!
Do not these liberals notice the dusty CPR crap mounted to the walls in every restaurant that have never been used? Who do they think pays for them? Who do they think pays to mount them or takes time to mount them? How about the stupid defibrillator machines they need at every school athletic event?
Can’t they repeal just one law? Any law?
Sure people leave because of the tax rates but they also leave because they are forced to spend valuable time…part of their finite life…doing stupid things in the name of infinite safety.
But 12:53, we want things this way. And we want higher taxes to pay for it. And we don't mind our kids leaving the state, we don't mind the loss of jobs, we don't mind schools that cost zillions, we don't mind any of this. I have no idea why you are even raising the subject.
I'll betcha the same special interests will do well under Cuomo that have done well under previous administrations. And I'll betcha we won't mind a bit.
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