Subject: Endorsement
From: Cuomo 2014 <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 17:09:08 +0000

We wanted to make sure you saw yesterday's Daily News Editorial
endorsing Governor Cuomo for four more years in Albany.

We thank you for your continued support. With your help, we will
continue to make New York stronger and safer.

Best Dem for big job  Andrew Cuomo is the primary pick  NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 4:05 AM

New York's Democrats will soon nominate Andrew Cuomo as their
candidate for governor in a walkover primary election against a
wholly unqualified candidate who is pitching herself as a truer
"progressive" than he is.

On those terms, the race is absurd. Only cuckoos on the farthest left
would find the governor to be wanting as a liberal Democrat and,
still loonier, undeserving of a nomination vote for a second term.

Flat out: Cuomo has been a superior governor.

He imposed order on a long-dysfunctional state capital, secured
timely, disciplined budgets and enhanced services while cutting
middle-class taxes.

He stood up for children by vigorously supporting charter schools,
delivered on a promise to fully fund pre-K education with a smarter
plan than Mayor de Blasio's and drove the teacher-union-dominated
Legislature to enact a workable teacher evaluation system.

He led confidently in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, jumpstarted
construction of a new cross-Hudson Tappan Zee Bridge, enacted pension
reforms that eluded all his predecessors and produced an Obamacare
website that connected New Yorkers and health insurers with
relatively few glitches.

In short, Democratic Party voters can vote enthusiastically for a
forceful, activist governor whose social agenda should thrill all but
the most extreme litmus-test partisans.

On that score, Cuomo corralled the votes to legalize gay marriage in
New York, signed a minimum wage hike and, at political cost, secured
America's toughest gun controls after the Sandy Hook massacre.

Near and dear to the heart of this editorial page, the governor also
won salary and benefit boosts for 12,000 workers who had been trapped
in poverty-level service jobs at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark
airports.

Cuomo's record is a testament to pragmatism, effective politicking
and fealty to a Democratic philosophy stretching back through his
father to Franklin Roosevelt.

True enough, his misadventure in the handling and shutdown of the
Moreland anti-corruption commission has shadowed his administration.
But what must be understood is that under Cuomo's bludgeoning, the
Legislature did produce ethics reform measures.

Unimaginable before he took office, the progress required relentless
gubernatorial tongue lashings and offer-you-can't-refuse
negotiations. He won tougher criminal penalties for corruption,
redrew the penal law to better define official misconduct and
improved disclosure of potential conflicts of interest.

Theoretically, had Cuomo kept the commission in business he may have
won more -- heavy emphasis on "theoretically" and "may have." With
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Republican chief Dean
Skelos dead set against transparency, the assumption that a New York
governor can force the Legislature, seat of all Albany schmutz, to
clean up its act is bunk.

Two Democrats are challenging Cuomo. Randy Credico is, literally, a
comedian. Zephyr Teachout is a Fordham Law School professor who has
neither governmental experience nor any private sector accomplishment
remotely suggesting qualification to lead America's third-largest
state.

Displaying dreamy ignorance about the realities of governing, she is
running strictly as a protest candidate whose "life's work has been
devoted to preserving democracy." Her fantastic cure-all for New York
is public campaign financing -- never mind that it will never fly in
the Legislature.

Democrats who worship public financing as the be-all-and-end-all
still should need an awfully strong stomach to vote for Teachout.

If you're one of the millions who are about to receive middle-class
tax rebates, be advised that her economic policies would surely kill
them.

If you're a suburban Democrat, stand warned that she would certainly
have to repeal Cuomo's historic, money-saving 2% tax cap.

If you happen to be a Democrat -- Jewish or other -- who is concerned
about Middle Eastern affairs, take note that Teachout refused to take
a stand on the war between Israel and Hamas.

Enough said.

This Daily News endorsement is definite and unequivocal: Democrats
should rally behind Cuomo on Sept. 9.

Those who like his progressive achievements -- from gay marriage to
gun controls to the minimum wage -- will back his commitments to
passing a Dream Act for young undocumented immigrants, as well as his
Women's Equality Agenda.

Those who value Cuomo's firm grip on state government, wise spending
priorities and focus on economic growth -- as The News does -- will
empower his job-creation and education-reform plans.

The bigger Cuomo's tally and the larger his margin of victory, the
greater his muscle will be as he embarks on an all-but-certain second
term. A vote for Cuomo will be a vote for the futures of the
Democratic Party and New York.

Source: NY Daily News -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?AndrewCuomo2014/075467907f/1ee9d6c61c/ee298fe3e2

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