{"id":135699,"date":"2025-08-11T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:04:12","slug":"andrew-cuomo-is-posing-as-the-citys-savior-after-years-of-dumping-on-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135699\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo is posing as the city’s savior after years of dumping on NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the most pathetic aspect of Andrew Cuomo\u2019s campaign for mayor are his vows to deliver for the city on things he couldn\u2019t (or wouldn\u2019t) in his decade-plus in the more powerful position of New York governor. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s suddenly calling for free bus and subway fares for lower-income New Yorkers, for example \u2014 when his heavy-handed mismanagement of the MTA led directly to the 2017 summer of hell.<\/p>\n

Not to mention how he looted the agency\u2019s funds for $5 million to\u00a0bail out upstate ski resorts<\/a> or the $100 million-plus he burned on decorative lighting<\/a> and tiles on the city\u2019s bridges and in tunnels.<\/p>\n

Nor how he rammed those congestion-pricing tolls <\/a>through the Legislature. <\/p>\n

He also pushed an insane redo of Penn Station<\/a> and messed up airport modernization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cuomo as gov proposed nothing to make the city more affordable or manageable, other than when he was blocking bad ideas from then-Mayor Bill de Blasio (and even that was more out of petty personal spite for Blas).<\/p>\n

Recall, too, that Cuomo signed into law<\/a> (and still defends!) the criminal-justice \u201creforms\u201d such as Raise the Age and the no-bail madness that drove up city crime starting in 2020.<\/p>\n

Heck, he lauded \u201cdefund the police\u201d as a legitimate movement.<\/p>\n

And his appointees to the state Parole Board are still springing cop-killers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, even where he had some virtues as governor, standing up for charters and opposing teacher-union excesses, he\u2019s now flipped to the other side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just laughable that he\u2019s posing as the best hope to save the city from far-left Zohran Mamdani: As gov, Cuomo routinely claimed he was everyone\u2019s only hope against crazy progressive policies \u2014 only to sell out on everything when the going got tough. <\/p>\n

Indeed, he gave Mamdani a huge boost by jumping into the Democratic mayoral primary \u2014 becoming the instant frontrunner on the basis of nothing but name recognition, but also a perfect foil the Democratic Socialist could use to vault to the top even as other rivals were starved for oxygen. <\/p>\n

And having lost that race, Cuomo is still running as moderates\u2019 best hope and so splitting the anti-Mamdani vote simply to serve his own stubborn vanity.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the No. 1 reason to laugh at Andrew Cuomo\u2019s vows to fight for New York is his decades-long record of fighting only for himself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps the most pathetic aspect of Andrew Cuomo\u2019s campaign for mayor are his vows to deliver for the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,13845,4219,50145,4691,2936,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-135699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-congestion-pricing","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-criminal-justice-reforms","13":"tag-editorial","14":"tag-law-enforcement","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","22":"tag-opinion","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115007446289784333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}