Gov. Moreland's Cuomo Fiasco. I mean, "Gov. Cuomo's Moreland Fiasco"
Reposted from GD
New York Times editorial, 7-24-14. Pretty fair distillation of the lengthy NYT investigation posted here and elsewhere on Wednesday. ( if anything , it goes ez on the poor gov. A lot of the details comprise some really repellent shit. I'll post a link presently.)
Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/governor-andrew-cuomo-and-the-short-life-of-the-moreland-commission.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1
Here's the editorial board's sum-up. ( For the record, NYT endorsed Cuomo in 2010.)
And now, without further ado: "Gov. Fiasco's Moreland Cuomo". (AKA "The Scandal Simplified"
>>>Governor Cuomo's Broken Promises. ( My headlines .. all of 'em... actually are more descriptive of the actual content, I think you'll agree.)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ran for office four years ago promising first and foremost to clean up Albany. Not only has he not done that, but now he is looking as bad as the forces he likes to attack.
Last year, Mr. Cuomo created an independent commission that he promised could go anywhere — even his own office — to root out corruption. But a report in The Times on Wednesday showed that he never intended to keep that promise. The commission was not independent, and Mr. Cuomo’s aides blocked it whenever it tried to investigate the governor’s office or his biggest supporters.
Mr. Cuomo now says the commission, which he abruptly disbanded to make a deal with the Legislature on an inadequate set of partial reforms, was never supposed to look at his office and that because he created it, he got to call the shots.
That is hardly what Mr. Cuomo led New Yorkers to believe when he formed the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and said it would be “totally independent.”
“Anything they want to look at, they can look at — me, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the comptroller, any senator, any assemblyman,” he said.
But The Times report showed that, behind the scenes, Mr. Cuomo’s office quickly began working to stop the commission from digging into any operations that might affect the governor >>>
Alas. there's more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/opinion/gov-cuomos-broken-promises.html?_r=0
"Fiasco Moreland's Cuomo Governor"
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