Cuomo's camp admits to keeping Republicans in control of Senate

[eridani]

Seems a bit indirect for an "admission"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/28/1302620/-Cuomo-s-camp-admits-to-keeping-Republicans-in-control-of-Senate

Gov. Cuomo will work to toss the Senate Republicans from power by reuniting the chamber’s fractured Democrats if the GOP does not agree to create a statewide public financing system for campaigns, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation [ ...]

“If Dean and the Republican conference renege and fail to pass campaign finance this session, the governor is going to actively campaign for Senate Democrats and work very hard after the election in November to unite” the breakaway and mainstream Democrats, a source said.

Why hasn't Cuomo already been actively campaigning for Senate Democrats and working to reunite the fractured Senate Democratic caucus? Why? Because that Republican-controlled Senate has suited his purposes nicely. He never has to worry about signing or vetoing genuinely progressive legislation. And because Senate Republicans know they exist at the whim of the governor, he has a lever to use against them whenever he actually wants something to pass.

So could you imagine this guy being our president? That's his endgame. Our job is to make sure that never happens.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Real "bi-partisanship"! For a "Center-Right" Country!

[Arkana]

2. He's not going to already campaign for Democrats?

Then what use is he?

My god, his father would be ashamed of him.

[MisterP]

3. I'm surprised that anyone's surprised: the Dems were always half a right-wing party

even after the 1965-72 realignment

in Spanish it's called oficialismo where party leaders grossly favor status-quo candidates, even to the point of deliberately allowing their own party to lose (of course a conservative Dem leader would rather work with the GOP than a Dem who'd even fight their own party to get things done, no matter how good those things are)

party leaders say it's just voter preference, but it's really a dedocracia--"rule by finger" where a candidate is favored/nominated, or an extant member promoted within the party or legislature

it's quite easy if you think about the Dems as a party with structures and factions, and not some army of 100M Paladins fighting the Debil for a better world

Cegelis, Lamont, McKinney, Halter, Romanoff, Sestak, Grayson, Kucinich, Barbara Buono, Rev. Manuel Sykes, Wendy Davis weren't/aren't tanked or redistricted away because the DNCC thought they'd do worse against the Pub than their darling!

[Hippo_Tron]

4. So, if I understand this correctly, Republicans control the Senate with a plurality caucus?

Because the "Independent Democratic" caucus doesn't align with either party?

[geek tragedy]

5. he is horrible, NY deserves better from its governors nt