New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is making an all-out attempt to bring Amazon back to the city, even lobbying founder Jeff Bezos personally, according to a Thursday New York Times report.
Amazon has reportedly shown no signs of budging, despite Cuomo’s urging and a letter to be published in the Times signed by local business leaders and lawmakers.
The group is arguing that a majority of New Yorkers did want the Long Island City, Queens, campus to be constructed and that a small but vocal minority just voiced their opposition more loudly.
Checks definition of “Out of touch with his constituents” …
… finds picture of Cuomo.
Dear Andrew Cuomo,
Might I suggest your next purchase from Amazon?
Love,
Ken In MN
Amazon ran away because they are not NYC tough enough. They want the critical eye of the areas workforce helping to move them forward, but they don’t want the same critical eyes on them.
Bil Maher nailed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0oeeXjyHiw"Amazon picked two places that didn’t need them at all,” he said. “Bezos, you’re worth $130 billion, take one for the team. Stop playing cities off against one another and help a dying one come back to life.”
Having an Amazon headquarters seems like a very mixed bag. It brings jobs, but tends to put demands on local traffic and push out current residents if it is in a poorer area. Ironically, it also makes life miserable for anyone living close by. The biggest problem is that to get it, a community apparently has to basically bribe the company (with big bags of money that could be spent more productively), and to look the other way whenever Amazon wants to do something not quite on the up and up. It is a little like hiring someone to be an abusive spouse.