editorial: An explanation, governor
TU Editorial Board
Our opinion: Andrew Cuomo’s manipulation of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption did serious harm to the cause of good government that he himself championed.
How much political damage Gov. Andrew Cuomo has done to himself with his unseemly interference with the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption will be up to voters to decide. How much legal damage he did, we trust a hard-charging U.S. Attorney to get to the bottom of.
What’s quite clear already, however, is the damage Mr. Cuomo has done to the cause of good government he once championed. And the damage is considerable.
The machinations of the governor and his staff in steering the Moreland Commission away from legitimate targets for investigation — targets that were too close to Mr. Cuomo — are only the latest breaches of Mr. Cuomo’s promises to give good government back to the people of New York. Time and again, we’ve been disappointed to see Mr. Cuomo willfully go back on those promises and then offer unconvincing excuses, begging off under the guise of legal contortions or supposed political realities.
http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/an-explanation-governor/30160/
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