During his 11 years in power, Andrew Cuomo muscled unions, wealthy donors, and lawmakers to block whatever the progressive bloc in Albany tried to achieve. RossBarkan reports on how without Cuomo, the left will now be liberated
Julia Salazar outside Cuomo’s midtown office last week. Photo: John Lamparski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Single-payer health care and a public takeover of utility companies. Money pumped into the public-university system and public-housing stock, harvested from higher taxes on the wealthy. An end to qualified immunity for police officers. All of this is now at least possible without Andrew Cuomo around much longer to frustrate the left.
During his 11 years in power, he muscled unions, wealthy donors, and lawmakers to block whatever the progressive bloc in Albany tried to achieve. Cuomo was able to do so for most of that time thanks to the alliance between Republicans in the State Senate who shared power with the Independent Democratic Conference, a dissident group of conservative Democrats.
The much bigger Assembly has gone left too. Older moderates are still able to tamp down the progressives and socialists to some extent — there are at least four DSA members in the chamber — but the younger lawmakers were able to force the cautious Speaker, Carl Heastie, to take impeaching Cuomo seriously.
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