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(13,420 posts)tinrobot
(10,899 posts)Upthevibe
(8,048 posts)He's wonderful.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)The part that was really moving for me is at about -21 minutes from the end.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)He was at Javits Center today:
The press conference gets underway around the 7 minute.
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)this is how you get people behind you to do their best.
tinrobot
(10,899 posts)Very moving, indeed
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)Under Andrew Cuomo, NYS has enacted:
- $15/hr minimum wage (incremently by region/county 2016-2021)
- Tuition free state university and community college. (2017)
- A gold standard paid family leave act
- The codification of Roe v Wade into state law
- Gender pay parity
And he did it with a Republican State Senate in power (until January 2019).
Cuomo was primaried by Cynthia Nixon (yes, that Cynthia Nixon) in 2018 who painted him as a corrupt, out of touch, centrist-establishment-machine Democrat.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)He won my mind with those measures you mentioned but, as an adoptee active in adoptee groups, he won my heart and deep gratitude when he backed a clean 'adoptee rights' bill and then, when one finally was passed, signed it into law.
He's a decent person and been a darn good and competent governor. (And Cynthia Nixon and Trump can both kiss my bonnie northern NYer backside.)
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)Thanks for sharing that with me.
Catherine Vincent
(34,489 posts)I'm in Texas, let's make a trade.
ffr
(22,669 posts)All Democrats.
All leaders.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Period!