New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for his second term, albeit by a closer-than-expected margin.
Cuomo’s Democratic rival, little-known Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to pull in 35 percent of the vote to Cuomo’s 62 percent, according to the Associated Press.
That margin isn’t exactly a landslide and may suggest some dissatisfaction with Cuomo among the Democratic base. The governor had come under scrutiny recently, after the New York Times reported he disbanded an anti-corruption commission that had been investigating some of his political allies and associates.
Cuomo didn’t hold a victory party Tuesday, which was in keeping with his tactic of ignoring Teachout’s candidacy throughout the primary. He did release a statement that congratulated his rival and her running mate, Tim Wu, for “engaging in the democratic process and having the courage to make their voices heard,” according to the AP.
The governor will face Republican Rob Astorino in November’s general election.
I pulled the lever for Teachout in a protest vote.
Cuomo is a self-serving stooge. His dealings with the renegade Dems in the senate are disgusting, as are his campaign commercials attacking Rob Astorino (himself a stooge of the highest order) for Westchester County’s exorbitant taxes, which the guy inherited and has tried to keep a lid on. The latter is the worst kind of Karl Rove politics–disingenuously attack your opponent for one of his/her most admirable traits.
The only lesson Cuomo gets out of this is that he thinks it’s great to trash the base.
I console myself with the fact that at least cuomo will be in office when he’s indicted.
Seems like Cuomo’s trying to ignore his way to re-election altogether.
Cuomo is responsible for one of the worst Medical Marijuana laws in America:
Patients can’t smoke pot.
Doctors are threatened with prosecution for supposedly saying that a patient has a qualifying condition who doesn’t.