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With Cuomo “Reeling” During Budget Season, State Lawmakers Are Poised To Take Power
arrow Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins walks in the Senate Chamber as members meet on the opening day of the 2021 legislative session in Albany on January 6, 2021. Hans Pennink/AP/Shutterstock
“I am the government,” Governor Andrew Cuomo famously declared in 2011 during his first term. The statement isn’t as hyperbolic as it sounds. The New York State Constitution and subsequent case law allow the governor to dictate how money is spent, and there isn’t much the legislature can do about it.
Over his decade in office, Cuomo has consolidated this power, cramming the annual budget full of his priorities education changes, pay raises, a “justice agenda” to name a few and forcing the legislature to vote for it or face the wrath of the public from a government shutdown.
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Congressional and legislative district boundaries in New York have been contorted into many silly shapes over the years. One state Senate district once embodied “Abe Lincoln riding a vacuum” from the Capital Region towards Syracuse, with a stovepipe hat jutting into the Adirondacks. The “earmuff” atop Western New York was represented by longtime Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, while a slender slice of southern Brooklyn waterfront has long helped Republicans compete in New York by packaging the borough’s most conserative quarters with Staten Island.
In 2022, districts could become more physically cohesive, if the Independent Redistricting Commission draws ostensibly nonpartisan boundaries, or even more gerrymandered, if Democrats take advantage of their new legislative supermajorities to press their growing political advantage.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday requested the state attorney general and chief judge select an independent attorney to lead an investigation into allegations he sexually harassed two former aides. Cuomo said he understood he “may have been insensitive or too personal.””To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that,” […]