Our five boroughs don’t all love Cuomo personally. However, just as we’ve got lifesavers at the shore, we now need a lifesaver on the cement.
Is Andrew warm? A quilt’s better. This is no Miss Universe Pageant. Nobody’s measuring a contestant’s chest. We need a DOER. Some worry our ex-cop mayor — whom many love — has his difficulties. And Tweedledee/Tweedledum — who never ran anything, never met a commie he didn’t like, hates cops, lives in an apartment meant for the poor, thinks Bernie Sanders’ spit should be saved — is scrambling to run for mayor of the greatest, richest, best, classiest, most famous city on the planet?
It even survived de Blasio and his wife the cashier. Also, of course, there’s always that red beret who lives in a one-room apartment with 17 cats who do not vote.
Andrew: “No. 1, we must talk to businesses in this town, make them feel wanted. Business fuels this town. Do something about the affordability issue. Create housing. Hire 5,000 new police officers, put many in the subways — like back in Mayor Dinkins’ days.
“The far left’s getting stronger and stronger. My father was no socialist. Kennedy was no socialist. Obama was no socialist. Defunding police? Abolishing jails? Legalizing prostitution and the drug trade? Socialists make nightmare scenarios.
“This new guy knows nothing. He doesn’t know from his own throat. How is it possible this could have happened to us.”
Forget trying to nail Andrew. You don’t have to invite him home for chicken soup. Just know that he — ALONE — can do the job. Reduce crime, clean away garbage, lessen prices, reopen shops, reduce food costs, move junkies/bicycles/scaffolds/thieves/killers/sickos/construction/rats/mice/roaches, reopen businesses, make tourists feel safe, jail store thieves. Smiling’s maybe not a requirement.
He brought his mom — who’s in her 90s — as a date to my home. He said his father — in the governor’s failing days — would ask him to come over but “I didn’t have the time to do it. I’ll never forget that.”
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“Look, New York has 300,000 employees. $115 billion budget and God forbid another 9/11, plus any day could be another COVID. You need experience to deal with it. This guy’s 33, three-term assemblyman, worst attendance record in the assembly. Eleven-year-olds are voting for him. This government today can’t even fill a pothole. He’s not reality. Free fast busses, government-run grocery stores everywhere. Where’s the money coming from? My suddenly sky-high rent? None of what he babbles is real.
“Look, we’re all in this together. We love this city. We have to make it work — is all I’m saying.
“As for my own problems? Who ever had COVID before? What was COVID? Where were guidelines? Who knew how or what to do? We were the laboratory. Prime place of death was the nursing homes. Every expert in the world was advising us. I was governor. I made the decisions. I worked every day trying to figure this out. I’m forever sorry for what people went through.”
A note: Just thought I should mention that Andrew doesn’t even basically like me. He usually snarls at me whenever he sees me.
He’s hair to stay
Another New York story. NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan. I love the newly reblonded hair he’s flashing on TV. Nice.
New York. So special that at some hotels they don’t even let you into the steam room without a tie and jacket. In the newly juiced up Waldorf, you have to shave before you enter the barbershop. I’m hearing their room service will start having an unlisted number.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.