The article is welcome because it points to what I’ve been
thinking and writing about lately which is the fact that Governor Cuomo sees
nothing wrong with manipulating local State Sen. Races in the run up to
2012. Now advocating for your parties candidates
is a tradition that is as old as politics.
In Cuomo’s case he has decided he has more interest in keeping the NYS
Senate in Republican hands and has decided to work openly for Republican Senate
incumbents. Cuomo openly invites them to
events and excludes their State Sen. Democratic challengers. In my Senate
District 28, he’ll invite Sen. Pattie Richie to an event and exclude Dem.
challenger Amy Tresidder, a County Legislator from NY District 16, who Cuomo
hasn’t lifted a finger for to help or tried to personally jump start her
campaign in District 28. Sen. Pattie
Ritchie gets him to invite her to photo ops. And constantly talks about their close
relationship.

The point is party loyalty has a special meaning to NYS’s
Governor, it’s defined as Democratic loyalty to him and his causes, but is
lacking in reciprocity to his fellow Democrats if he feels it doesn’t serve his
grand political design of becoming President Cuomo. The man should have learned this doesn’t work
long term in politics, but Democrats in NYS State are going to have a long time
to drive the lesson home, and the vehicle to do so will likely be Hillary
Clinton’s Presidential run in 2016.
We’ll have a chance to sit the Governors re-election campaign out in
2014, because some Democrats have seen Andrew Cuomo’s blind ambition, as a
reason to avoid supporting him, when the time is right to side elsewhere. Sen. Ritchie won’t be there for him either, when
a Republican shows up who’s a viable political opponent. And then Mr. Cuomo
will better understand that loyalty is a two way street.

Mike Flynn ‘Middle Class Mike’

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