Gov. Cuomo padded the state payroll with as many as 374 “special assistants” — creating what critics call a veritable army of loyalists who keep his political machine rolling.
The gubernatorial appointees raked in a combined $33.8 million during fiscal 2016-2017, the latest year for which...
Weeks before the Cuomo administration granted approval to the cryptocurrency exchange run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to trade a new cryptocurrency, the twins donated a combined $100,000 to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Winklevoss Twins Give $100K to Cuomo Weeks Before NY State Zcash Approval
Democrats hold a massive voter lead in states that require party registration, a gap of 12 million that could be key to whether the party takes control of the House and Senate in the fall midterm congressional elections, according to a new analysis.
2018: Democrats lead GOP by 12 million...
Student-led rallies around the country on Saturday aimed to show support for gun rights, though their effort drew smaller-than-expected crowds in a bid to counter the well-funded and organized youth gun-control lobby that emerged after the massacre in a Florida high school earlier this year...
Democrats saw nothing positive in the new June jobs report that highlighted 213,000 new jobs added.
Instead, the Democratic Party issued a statement criticizing President Trump’s jobs agenda as “reckless.”
Dems blast booming jobs report, Trump worker agenda, ‘reckless’
Gov. Cuomo on Thursday issued a directive to the state and city university systems that they continue to use race as a factor in their admission policies in order to better ensure diversity.
Cuomo directs CUNY and SUNY to keep using race as factor in college admissions - NY Daily News
New York’s most senior Democratic lawmaker is proposing an end-run around a US Supreme Court ruling that could cost the state’s powerful public-employee unions more than $100 million a year.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/04/dem-lawmaker-has-workaround-to-scotus-unions-decision/
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) isn’t extreme enough for the far-left, according to a Democratic writer.
Sanders, it seems, was used as a transition to get left-leaning Americans to embrace socialism, and now his usefulness is declining among the far-left.
Socialist Dems Say Bernie Too Right-Wing
Upstate New Yorkers continue to head for the exits.
And in few places have they been leaving faster over the past seven years than Broome, Chemung, and Tioga counties — at an average rate of 84 each month in Broome, 39 per month in Chemung and 29 each month in Tioga...
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry sent a not-so-subtle signal to New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo that the federal government may intervene to keep New York officials from blocking natural gas pipelines.
Rick Perry Hints At Federal Action To Keep Andrew Cuomo From Blocking Pipelines - The...
New York City was recently named the best place to celebrate the United States' birth. But that national pride is only skin deep — New York is actually the fifth least patriotic state in the country, according to a new WalletHub study.
The personal finance website ranked the "most patriotic"...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bid for a third term got a possibly illegal boost at the annual NYC Pride March — when a state Department of Transportation truck was used to distribute campaign signs.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/25/cuomo-campaign-signs-handed-out-from-dot-truck-may-have-violated-rules/
The FBI is now investigating after a woman shot a New Zealand man outside her Goochland County home Friday afternoon.
Mom shoots man who flew from New Zealand to see her teenage daughter
An armed off-duty paramedic, who is also a pastor, is being hailed as a hero after he shot and killed a shooting suspect at a Washington state Walmart.
Pastor Shoots, Kills Gun Wielding Carjacker In Walmart Parking Lot
Democrats’ proposed legislation to prohibit so-called border separations would actually prevent federal law enforcement agencies almost anywhere inside the United States from arresting and detaining criminals who are parents having nothing to do with unlawfully crossing the border and seeking...
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a proposal that would restrict the circumstances under which California police officers could use deadly force.
California Senate panel moves to restrict police use of force
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is bending way over backward to get convicted felons to vote — now ordering parole officers to give registration forms to their former-inmate clients during office or home visits.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/cuomo-orders-parole-officers-to-help-eligible-ex-cons-register-to-vote/
In his push for a new “red flag” gun control bill, Gov. Cuomo is taking direct aim at several state Senate Republicans.
Cuomo targets eight state Senate Republicans in new digital ads pushing gun control bill - NY Daily News
California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov. 6...
The state’s top Republican unloaded on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest push for a “red flag” gun control bill, saying that Cuomo had failed to negotiate in good faith and was “disengaged and disinterested in doing the people’s business, content instead to govern by photo-ops and press releases."
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For what it's worth.
Unknown by two-thirds of the state’s likely voters, Republican Marc Molinaro is down by 19 points against Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, according to a new poll out today.
Poll shows Cuomo leading his opponents
I see a"Moment Of Necessity" coming.
Heading into the final days of the legislative session, Gov. Cuomo will make a final push for passage of a “red flag” bill designed to make it easier to keep firearms out of the hands of those feared to be dangerous to themselves or others.
LOVETT: Cuomo...