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[George II]

100. One by one:

The first one has already been debunked, the special election was conducted about four months after the two State Senators left office, they were not delayed by Cuomo. Four months to conduct an election campaign is reasonable.

The Jacobin article is full of exaggerations or false comments. Andrew Cuomo was first elected to office, as AG, in 2006.

"For 25 years, Andrew Cuomo's Democratic Party has been blocking billions of dollars owed to New York schools."? It hasn't been Cuomo's Democratic Party for 25 years.

Then there's the statement "a series of governors beholden to the capitalist class — first David Paterson then Andrew Cuomo". That's two, not a series, and Paterson only became Governor in 2008 (after Spitzer resigned), eleven years ago. Neither are "beholden to the capitalist class", that's typical Jacobin rhetorical blather. For the 12 years prior to Spitzer New York had a republican governor, George Pataki.

There were many reasons why those "billions" weren't paid to the schools, and for at least half of that 25 years it was under a republican governor and alternating Democratic and republican majorities in the two houses.

A very poorly written and factually incorrect "article".

As I've already pointed out, the IDC was effective for two or three years, that was a horrible time for Democrats in the state senate, but it was far from Cuomo's doing.

I was disappointed to see that Tony Avella, my parents' City Councilman, eventually joined the IDC. They were instrumental in getting Avella elected to the City Council, they were close friends. In fact, the local "Democrat of the Year" award was named after my father, and Avella was the first to receive it under that name.

Thankfully he only joined the IDC several years after that. I suspect if my parents were still around they would have talked him out of joining it.

Andrew Cuomo isn't my favorite New York Governor, and he's certainly no Mario Cuomo. But those articles paint him in a bad light incorrectly. He's not the person those articles are trying to portray.