if you look at Cuomo's donors it becomes clear what his candidacy represents and why the Powers That Be in New York are trying to portray his victory as inevitable. - ThreadSky

mtsw.bsky.social • 1 day ago

if you look at Cuomo's donors it becomes clear what his candidacy represents and why the Powers That Be in New York are trying to portray his victory as inevitable.

Reposted from Ben K.

Randy Levine, big Trump guy, maxed out to Cuomo's mayoral campaign.

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culthero12.bsky.social•1 day ago

The specific culture of New York Democrats is something I need help understanding in the present crisis because it keeps cropping up. Shumer, Cuomo, Adams, Hochul, Gillibrand have all been in the news in a bad way and all slanted in favor the regime.

titusoates6.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s important to understand that it’s just a terrible party. A dearth of talent. Machine oriented rather than values oriented. Comfortable sharing power with NY GOP for decades. No progressive wing or culture. AOC is an outlier like you can’t imagine.

alyssashulman.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a party that's gotten complacent and fat and corrupt with the knowledge that they'll safely win every election by comfortable margins.

There's a reason that MN and MI Dems put them to shame, and it's because they have to work really hard to keep their coalition happy in order to win

glenthefossa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Crooked unchallenged machine politics, off year elections, bad turn out, nepotism, etc.

brianstorm.ing•1 day ago

They have always done what corporate power wanted and followed lobbying group orders over listening to their constituents.

davigoli.bsky.social•1 day ago

I understand why the money wants him but cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would cast a vote for him

glenthefossa.bsky.social•1 day ago

He only needs ~400k votes to be mayor, it's embarrassing

chortles81.bsky.social•1 day ago

There was a texting campaign not too long ago encouraging NYC Republicans to switch their registration to Democratic just long enough to vote for Adams in the Democratic closed primary... I won't be surprised if it's going to pivot to Cuomo

jerryn13.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the relics of the reaction to the Boss Tweed era is that the deadline to change your party registration in NY was 2/14.

ezenbaklattan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone said that the right knows it can’t win elections on a Republican ticket so they try to find one with a D by their name.

connorlynch.bsky.social•1 day ago

The ol’ Rick Caruso

odouglasprice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't rank Adams or Cuomo! They're both rotten, and voters should act like they're not even on the ballot.

mtsw.bsky.social•1 day ago

after Adams' failure, Cuomo is their best shot to seize the government of an overwhelmingly liberal city for corrupt and conservative ends by tricking liberal voters into supporting the most conservative candidate

mtsw.bsky.social•1 day ago

basically the current dynamic, yes https://bsky.app/profile/ezenbaklattan.bsky.social/post/3lkmb37k7q22c

mtsw.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think they're that complacent tbh, this and Adams are both desperate rearguard actions because they know their hold on power in the state is incredibly tenuous and out of step with actual voters. They were complacent about keeping the IDC in place and got wiped out!

mtsw.bsky.social•1 day ago

The corrupt Brooklyn Dem machine got wiped out of basically every office EXCEPT mayor in 2021 where Adams got to run against a divided and deeply compromise field and still only won by like 2% against the technocrat garbage commissioner. They understand Cuomo is a hail mary shot to hold power

zachrabiroff.com•1 day ago

Still: polls are polls and money is money, and they’ve jury rigged this thing to give Cuomo a big leg up on both

lilheb.bsky.social•1 day ago

The “technocrat garbage commissioner” would have been a fantastic mayor. We should only be so lucky.

cplusjava.bsky.social•1 day ago

Considering that prior, hopefully the chances for anti-Adam-n-Cuomo candidate to prevail are good?

fplynch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not sure how “divided” matters when we had RCV. I believe it was the media’s overfocus on crime.

asherd.xyz•1 day ago

I cannot tell you how dispiriting it was to get RCV here in NYC in time for that absolute shitshow of a mayoral primary.

publicuniversal.bsky.social•1 day ago

People rightly blame them for our current autocracy!

spartacussin.bsky.social•1 day ago

The trouble is that none of the other candidates are widely-known, and liberals are are prone as anyone else to just vote for the name they know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_election

nina-studio.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cuomo stayed in power as Governor by supporting the IDC, a group of 8 rogue democrats, who in exchange for cushy appointments & offices caucused with republicans, giving upstate more power at the EXPENSE of NYC. Progressive bills that had passed in the assembly never got to the floor of the senate

nina-studio.bsky.social•1 day ago

& Stewart-Cousins was denied her rightful place as speaker even though technically, the democrats were in the majority. THIS is how Cuomo deals with republicans, he plays appeases them to maintain power, He did NOT stand up for New York City voters in the past and he won't now!

sirjamesa12.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those godawful gerrymandered state senate maps he signed off will forever be etched in my brain.

tbas7000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Especially because after Schumer's fuck up last week...people of NY are READY to truly push these "centrist" Democrats out of power once and for all.

alyssashulman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Evergreen

skydome.bsky.social•1 day ago

Would Cuomo have even bothered to ask for the quid pro quo before letting ICE loose in the city?

theglassbeast.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, because Cuomo doesn’t know the city and thinks the New York Post offers an accurate portrayal of it.

berniemask.bsky.social•1 day ago

They should find someone else

bigtentsocialist.bsky.social•1 day ago

If there’s ONE thing the Democrats should do now it’s stop elevating guys who are going to continue damaging and the Democratic brand and demoralizing Democrats.

sherylcitygirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not my choice

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