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The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Zohran Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo in one poll, and just barely within the margin of error at that. Huge own-goal by NYC’s business establishment to throw so much money at Cuomo’s campaign – I think they’d have had a better chance with Adrienne Adams or Brad Lander www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Some specific examples here: 1) he shut down a nuclear plant because RFK Jr. told him to, which has been replaced by fossil fuels 2) he forced out Andy Byford at the MTA because he was jealous that Byford was getting positive press 3) he wanted to build an overpriced backwards airtrain to LGA

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Seeing a lot of people comparing Newsom and Cuomo and I think that's not really getting close to communicating how bad Cuomo is.

submitted 59 days ago • 40 comments

So many smart, young people (and smart experienced people) left the MTA and NY state government during Cuomo's tenure because he was so miserable to work for. City government brain drain is a really bad problem for competency and success, and Cuomo will exacerbate it.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Don't rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that he is a bad person.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Proud that when *my* family was on the LES, their cringe lefty buddies knocked down tenements to build skyscrapers instead of…the opposite

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

an under-appreciated reason to not rank Andrew Cuomo is that he teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down New York’s largest nuclear power plant, causing energy costs and carbon emissions to skyrocket

submitted 98 days ago • 35 comments

Cuomo was governor for 10 years. He came in with a lot of experience and amassed a lot of political power. West coast states were trying hard to increase urban housing supply; he did nothing. He hounded out the best NYC Transit head we’ve ever had. He failed over and over to deliver on policy.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment