August 27, 2014 Andrew Cuomo won’t debate either his female, Democrat primary opponent, or his general election GOP challenger. Andy’s dodged repeated calls to face off against either Dem professor, Zephyr Teachout or Republican, Westchester County Executive, Rob Astorino. Rather than risk arguing policy with a couple of articulate adversaries, the governor has chosen to hide behind his $35 million war chest and use it to: 1) Try to bounce Ms. Teachout from the primary ballot. 2) Unleash a spate of nasty, unfounded smear ads targeting Astorino that are so bad even Democrats are characterizing them as “unusually vicious”. Having failed to remove Teachout (claiming she was a non-resident for the required number of years) from the September slate, Cuomo now needs to answer two questions. Should he debate her? Would it be wise to hit her with negative advertising?