NYS capitol region and a gaze into Cuomos political future

NYS's capitol region, where diversity is and allways has been sorely lacking! Where the "good old boy" network is a accepted way of life, but perhaps the times are a changing!!! With 3, count em, three assembly seats opening up, the chance for HISTORY to be made is looming!!! I wonder how capitol region democrats and republicans feel about that! Simply put, it would be a major insult if one of the three seats that are opening up isnt filled by a woman or a person of color! Let's hope the capitol regions powers that be can step into the 21st century!!! They should be actively seeking and promoting candidates for these seats who are women or persons of color!!!

Now a look into the future, and what I see should be a caution for the Cuomo express. Because while he is making great progress and significanct gains, he is also making powerful political adversaries! And that may lead to a tough re-election bid, a relelection that will be crucial to any national hopes he may have!
His stances against the public workers, the teachers, and now his own senators may, and I say may come back to haunt him come re-election time!Right now the Cuomo express is just that,a unstoppable juggernaut,but in the game of thrones, slights are allways remembered at the right political time! So rather than possibly having to get over such speed bumps, I am of the hope that Gov Cuomo, can use his ever growning political capitol to, in the very near future.smooth things over with these forces!! because a King rises by his alliances, and falls due to his adversaries!

The NYS Budget 2012( a new Norm)

With Gov Andrew Cuomo's passing of a second budget in a row on time, a new norm has been established in Albany, a norm that not even his illustrious father could   achieve. Andrew Cuomo has righted, by the strength and character of his leadership, the ship of legislative state in NY. He has ended the machivellian manipulations  and the power grabbing shenanigans that have plagued Albany for decades! He(Andrew Cuomo) has effectively cowed the NYS legislature republican and democrat. No mean feat this, especially given the history of this, prior to 2011, dysfunctional body!
So is this indeed the new norm? Will we have in NYs fucntional and working government? As we approach the halfway mark in the Cuomo II administration it is hard to say. But clearly there is a new will and a new way on capitol hill in Albany, the Cuomo way, and noone has yet to say him Nay!

NY & Capitol HIll( no respect?)

NY & Capitol HIll( no respect?)

With the lack of representation in the upper echelons of Captiol hill for quite a while ,we must wonder here in NY, if our NY lawmakers are getting the respect they deserve? Arent our leaders worthy of cabinet level consideration? Arent our former Govs worthy of presidential consideration? I for one, can say that Former Gov Pataki could have easily won the republican nomination  IF he had chose to run! It seems that modern washington has a issue with NY politicans, something that stems back from the Mario Coumo days( another Gov who should have been offered a cabinet position but wasnt)  NY leads the world and You'd think that the leaders of NY would be called upon to serve!   That is something that whomever has the presidential seat in 2012 should consider! And in 2016 It may be indeed time for NY to contend!

The Mayoral run of John Liu.(revise out of revision!)

When Comptroller Liu first raised the prospect of Running for Mayor of NY, I crooked a eyebrow, due to both the potential of success and the potential for political destruction. Because the fact remains that ,despite it being NYC,THE most modern melting pot city in the world, the revisonist thoughts and practices that still hold sway in the city in things like the asian community and City politics would be a obstacle very hard to overcome! And ,of course, ny foresight in the matter has borne the most bitter of fruit! Political scandal and question is fast eclipsing the promise that Mr Lius candidacy once held, and as he struggles to get out of the starting gate, those revisionist practices and politics are coming together to end his run before it begins! As a consultant of some political reknown, I would offer this counsel to the Asian American who would be mayor! Cut your losses and run Hard! Find political professionals( everything and everyone doesnt have to be asian) return all donations that are of question ,and then run HARD! Make the question and doubt of your integrity created by these finance issues a strength! In other wordsRUN ON IT! LIUsanity does have a chance, A major chance, but he(candidate Liu) must revise himself out of what revisionism has wrought!

The Cuomo Express!

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, before his great fall fancied himself a "steamroller" But clearly if there was ever a political steamroller in NYS it is the "Cuomo Express" that is chugging along in Albany!Policy change after policy change, public action after every public action, Andrew Cuomo is, by the strength of his own personal leadership and the positivity of same, pushing and pursing his agenda virutally unchallenged!And ,even if the opposition could find its voice, it simply cant! Cuomo has created, thru leadership and the success of same, a vaccum, where the rancorous partisanship and selfishness of years past simply cannot function! Success is both a sword and a shield and right now, due to leadership and the strength of same Gov. Andrew Cuomo is too well armed to challenge! The Cuomo express is indeed hitting on all cylinders, and right now I dont see anything stopping this true steamroller!

The NY budget( Leadership matters)

The Presentation of the NYS Budget Highlights what can be done, not only in NY & America with LEADERSHIP. Because right or wrong, whatever was in the budget paled in significance to the leadership that presented it!Leadership that can do, that will do, that is what was really presented in NYS's budget presentation. To put it simply LEADERSHIP matters!!! And whether you like  it or not, whether you are republican or democrat,you had to feel secure in and feel the power of the LEADERSHIP that was exemplified on the ESP(Empire State Plaza) last week. It was a textbook example of How to lead. And as the Budget Negotiations begin, its very clear who you want in your corner this legislative session! Leadership matters plain and simple! And as was witnessed during NYS's Budget presentation we , in NYS. Have it!

Cuomo 's second State of the State( the REAL DEAL?)

AS  we watched Gov Cuomo II's second state of the state address, we witnessed ,for the first  time in a long time in NYS, a leader at the peak of his political powers! Andrew Cuomo could do no wrong and it was clearly shown in the reception he recieved and the manner in which the State of the State  was conducted!  There was levity, brevity and above all, direction! And in a state which, until last year, had lacked all of that, it couldnt have been more welcomed! Gov. Cuomo is the Picture of a STRONG leader, and that is something that not only NYS needs, but America as well!Cuomo has let his actions speak louder than words, he has let his conviction speak instead of oratory, and whether you like him or not, it has served NYS for the better! No longer is Albany(the state Gov part anyway) the place for political stagnation, conflagration and the like! Albany is a place that finally has DIRECTION! And that direction  maybe about 400 miles south for Andrew Cuomo in 2016 if he maintains the iron hand in velvet glove approach that is serving him so well in NYS!