is a fair assessment, IMO. He became entitled, felt like he was owed the governorship and then the mayorship no matter how atrocious his behavior.

Beat it, Andrew. There's a visionary leader in town.

I was a major Mario Cuomo supporter. Sickening to see his son going this way.

I saw some of the ads and memes. Full blown racism, claims that Mamdani celebrated on 9/11 (when he was a little kid?!) - just pure Trump trash.

Very very disappointing.

It's just damn lies all the time, just like their pathetic predatory king.

Which should have hopefully lost him some voters in diverse liberal NYC

This is proof that not all the political fiascos are Repukes, we have a few too. He's definitely one of them. I loved his father Mario and I thought he was an awesome Governor of New York. It's sad how this family has turned out.

He was a bright shining light against Trump when we were drowning in COVID.

But, he has overstayed his welcome.
And as I said in a post yesterday on FB, he needs to go be a grandfather and leave politics for good.

I learned a lot because you could not trust trump about anything. Cuomo was good at what he did at the time, but then it caught up with him. He resigned in disgrace for a lot of reasons and he just could not stay out of the news. Big mistake running for NYC mayor. Like many, they just don’t know when to give it up. Now he is a late night joke. Too bad.

I was more impressed with VT governor Scott, who always had a doctor take the lead, with him speaking about anything the state was offering. I was also more impressed with Inslee of WA.

I think Cuomo got more attention because it was NY. However, WA was hit earlier and took strong action that ultimately worked out better.

due to his record. But he didn't get any traction so I went to Buttigieg.

Heard him speak and I was convinced.

with me given the graveness of the situation.

But we did not, for a minute, think he did the work of compiling the data himself. We knew it was his very good staffers who provided that information for him to share.

Then, we found out he was abusing some of those staffers by sexually harassing them. Oh, no, buster! That will never play for ANY DEM pol anymore. You do not abuse the people whose efforts make you look good. Nope! Pound sand you entitled spoiled brat man-child. Go away.

Then, sore loser attitude strikes again when he lost the DEM primary in NYC? Oh, just STFU and accept that your day is over. Stay retired. We won't forget how you treated the women who propped you up with their hard work and dedication.

I absolutely hung on every word he uttered during COVID. He and Newsome were the sane safety-net bookends for the country. And I will never forget that.

And, yea, he just lost a boat load of his legacy capital running for Mayor of NYC and then being an absolute prick during the campaign when he saw he was not popular.

Oh well, it was his idea. I’m glad he did not prevail.

Bidding war?

...and they'll tout him as a "Democrat commentator," pretending to speak for the Democratic Party.

He had a lot going for him as Governor of New York. He was lacking for protecting nursing homes during the Covid pandemic, but otherwise, he led his state and the nation in his response.

But Cuomo followed the path of Icarus and flew too close to the Sun, where he perished.

In the mayoral race, his forte was his attempt to condemn a fellow candidate, a fellow Democrat. It didn't work and it helped to destroy whatever good will he hoped he could garner.

The cynicism embedded in that kind of politics is the real tragedy. It creates giant holes for darkness to enter.

Will we ever get a full accounting of who aided and abetted trump (or looked the other way) over the decades? No.
Swept under the rug by cynical or self-serving politicians.

Its indicative of his character -
He's not trump, but they share similar characteristics.
He could have done a mea culpa and maybe, maybe in the future would have been forgiven. No. Instead he chose to be MAGA lite to win.
Fuck him.

Cuomo took to X Friday night to remind people of his famous New York family.

“In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani. This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round,” he wrote.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/andrew-cuomo-ridiculed-nepo-baby-040800880.html

Cuomo is a gross little man. Born of privilege, he has choice in who he chooses to be.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

May this extraordinary example of People Power be just the beginning. Our country will begin to heal when last night’s grassroots-up is repeated so often it becomes the standard those running for office seek.

After he lost the primary he should have made nice, and offered support to the winner. That's how Democrats are expected to behave. If he'd done that I don't think we'd be posting insults about him now.

I'm sick and tired of Democrats not respecting the winners of primaries.

He was another one who couldn't accept a primary loss, who assumed he had a right to the office. Unfortunately, Lieberman won the election & continued to be a senator, blocking or watering down Democratic policies. He prevented any hope of Medicare for all.

It's a big tent party, and it has to be to win nationally. We have our differences. No one is perfect either, and running for office as a Democratic politician guarantees that every single imperfection will be put under an electron microscope.

But when a politician refuses to respect the Democratic primary, much less actually runs against the winner, that crosses the last line for me. And anyone who supports that traitorous candidate is no longer a reliable Democratic voter in my opinion.

We certainly see the occasional poster here disparaging progressive voters who, apparently didn't vote for Hillary, Joe, or Kamala. (Personally I don't know any progressive like that.)
Let's see those posters disparage the Cuomo voters for the next few years.

When the stories of his sexually harassing women turned out to be true he had to resign in disgrace
but his ego wouldn’t let him walk away so he had to take right wing money to be the human turd in the
punch bowl.

Also made the women in his office dress in skirts and high heels. Made his own daughter dress like a man.

And in the heat of calls for his resignation in March of 2021, he went out to the sidewalk of the Governor's mansion, where he knew the press would be, and walked around talking on his phone with his fly prominently unzipped. The obvious implied message: I gotcha resignation right here! The articles said "caught with" but I think it was intentional. Same attitude as his recent tweets. His daughter is looking right at the cameras.

Thanks for your service,

New Yorkers remember your scandals and the reason you resigned.

Sit down.

He was once considered presidential timbre.

He and his steroid enhanced sibling can go fuck themselves.

Enjoy private life, fucko, was the gist of it.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Andy!

Describes him perfectly Strunz

I think Cuomo's time is over. The voters of New York obviously want to go a different direction, and I'm excited and hopeful for that new direction.

can't stand him or his brother.

back like a bad meal.

and he reminds me of the coastal Italians that were more mob than human. He gives Italian generations that came after our grandparents a bad name. Boomers, Glitter and gold. Disgusting racism. Women are toys to those kinds. Breeders for their offspring. No respect and no shame. True Italians are humble people and he is NOT one of them.

bye felicia

Who? That name doesn't ring a bell.

what was I laughing for?

Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

He rode that name recognition train hard

And both were traitors to the Democratic Party.

For competitive races. It appears a kiss of death.

The only one he is better than is that psycho Sliwa. Holy shit

be good. VERY soon!

key in on sex. They appear obsexxed (I just invented that word) with it. If they don't do it, they think about it and are especially concerned with other peoples' sexuality and sexual activity.

This man has three beautiful daughters. Every man has a mother; some of them have wives. WTAF?

He gave our Medical Cannibis industry to out of state corporations after strangling the initial program with restrictive regulations and a miserly super restrictive list of conditions allowed into the program. F or personal example THC protects nerves and the brain itself from damage due to hypoxia, that is the textbook opposite of a toxin. It also has no lethal dose. So after being part of the lobbying through the Drug Policy Alliance the only way any diabetic could enter the program was for severe untreatable chronic pain, or after already suffering neuroapthy. It could protect against it, but he decided to make "the strictist most regulated medical cannabis program" in the USA. He was only considering his future ambitions and future campaign donations.

On the good side he did Jawbone Verizon, Spectrum, and Cable Vision to offer affordable internet to a few groups, including any family with kids on the school lunch program, even the reduced price list.

He created the School Tax Caps and froze school budgets to random financial indexes. It left schools unable to budget. Programs were decimated, but in the last moments before school opened, he'd throw some non-budgeted discretionary cash back at them so they could re-open. It was drumph-style chaos. And it was corrupt because it required school districts and political reps to buy him off personally, just to survive.

THAT'S WHY ORANGE MENACE WANTED HIM TO WIN! THAT'S WHY NEW YORKERS HATE HIM.

are a ghoulish type, and the current administration is full of them, like attracts like.

Did you write that poem? If you did, please post it on BlueSky.

I really don't care for social media. I had a bad experience with LinkedIn, and have been skittish ever since. Thanks for your encouragement, it keeps me trying.

It's been stated that he plans to move to Florida and work as a towel boy at Mar a Stinko.

Too damn many of them these days.

they are a dime a dozen now

Who was surprised to have received a job offer from his office, serving him in a public role, having just graduated from college.

He did it to her and she quit.

The absolute audacity of the man.

Gov. Mario Cuomo delivered to the 1984 Democratic National Convention....

“It’s an old story,” he told the convention. “It’s as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. … The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail. … ‘The strong,’ they tell us, ‘will inherit the land.’
https://www.liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/a-late-governors-words-meant-the-world-to-me,62742


I had never heard of Mario Cuomo before that night,
but I actually viewed this speech the first time in the home of my best childhood friend,
who was a strong Reagan supporter,
and declared to him "THIS is the guy we Democrats should have nominated,
INSTEAD of Mondale".... He could offer nothing to refute that supposition...

(I was a Hart supporter in 1984, and worked for him with a little team of youngsters which I recruited---
always said that it was extremely STUPID for the Democrats in 1984 to nominate
the Vice President of the guy who LOST by a LANDSLIDE in the previous election---
but it appears that it was 'his turn' that year, particularly after Ted Kennedy refused to run)

I did hope that Mario Cuomo would run for President, especially in 1988,
but he didn't, for whatever reason(s)...

Now his son Andrew, who also became a Governor of New York,
gained some national prominence in the first year of the COVID crisis,
with his daily covid press conferences---

At that point I thought that he might become a new national Democratic Party leader,
and even a future presidential nominee of the party---

but I had no idea that he had already torpedoed his own presidential chances
via numerous instances of sexual harassment of women....

'Sad acorn'....

And yeah--- his second campaign for mayor of New York City
did him no credit, either--- with the religious and racial things...

Sometimes the sons fail to credit the fathers--- RFK Junior is another prime example

Closing with the full 'tale of two cities' speech by NY Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1984:
(and this speech still resonates today, and maybe ESPECIALLY today!)

Both his sons are such disappointments.

I lived in New York then, and I actually got to meet him once.

Andrew was never cut from the same cloth, or maybe he just took a lot for granted because his political career came easy. Always a wise-ass kid, he stepped into it before he'd graduated college.

that he didn't even do a concession speech, nor call Mamdani to congratulate him. What a fucking low life weasel. It's better off that he just ride off in the sunset. What a whiny immature baby.

his father: probably the best thing about Andrew!

Too bad that he did NOT live up to Mario!

I think he's a psychopath.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior