Like father, like son.
Certainly one of New York’s most well-known political dynasties bit the mud Tuesday as Andrew Cuomo’s energy seize got here to a humiliating finish in a gilded Midtown ballroom.
New York Metropolis voters firmly rejected Cuomo’s undesirable electoral advance — identical to they rebuffed his dad, Mario Cuomo, 48 years in the past because the patriarch suffered a stinging defeat to Ed Koch.
The never-take-no-for-an-answer Cuomo, 67, has stated he wouldn’t rule out one other political run if his mayoral bid faltered, however his second defeat in opposition to socialist Zohran Mamdani left the once-formidable former governor weakened to the purpose of irrelevance.
His concession speech — maybe his final main political deal with — was a warning about Mamdani’s insurance policies, and extra broadly an enchantment for the soul of his social gathering.
“This marketing campaign was to contest the philosophies which can be shaping the Democratic Get together, the way forward for this metropolis and the way forward for this nation,” Cuomo stated.
He added particularly that meant backing legislation and order. “We won’t make the NYPD the enemy.”
With out naming Mamdani particularly, Cuomo took purpose at antisemitism, including, “We cherish our range, and we’ve got no tolerance for discrimination of any variety by race, faith, sexual orientation or creed, and we won’t tolerate any conduct that followers the flames of anti semitism.”
He added, “It’s . . . necessary to notice that nearly half of New Yorkers didn’t vote to help a authorities agenda that makes guarantees that we all know can’t be met.”
The glowering Andrew rose up the ranks of New York and Democratic politics till he was elected into the Govt Mansion in 2010.
He dominated Albany with an iron fist till 2021, when he resigned in shame amid impeachment threats after a sordid sexual-harassment scandal — although he has continued to take care of he did nothing fallacious.
4 years later, Cuomo smelled blood within the political water as he watched Mayor Adams’ re-election implode.
He inserted himself into the Democratic mayoral main, however watched as his presumptive victory was snatched away by the upstart Mamdani in June.
Cuomo, not taking a touch, mounted an unbiased run that drew extra cringe than precise enthusiasm.
His stilted COVID-era PowerPoint displays on the Sheraton, his awkward AI movies and social media movies attempting to depict him appearing like an precise human ended up inspiring laughs and derision from throughout the political spectrum.
Shockingly, not even Cuomo’s weekend escapades to the Hamptons may assuage Huge Apple voters that he wasn’t the identical man who price taxpayers upwards of $60 million to choose up the tab for his sexual-harassment fits, despatched the aged to their demise along with his COVID nursing-home order, or closed a corruption probe that he launched after it obtained too near his personal workplace.
Solely a uniquely hated politician along with his connections and marketing campaign coffers may bungle an election versus a political unknown this badly.
Whether or not it was his bare-bones every day schedules that spent extra time with donors than voters or his determined flip-flopping on points like closing Rikers Island through the marketing campaign, Cuomo proved one factor to be true: the one factor he has ever believed in is his personal ambition.
He spent the final hours of his political life in Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Ballroom, the place his marketing campaign made a piss-poor resolution of emblazoning the tarnished Cuomo identify over the urinals.
Regardless of his political profession being six ft underground, Cuomo will greater than seemingly hassle New York Metropolis voters with some vainness run for workplace sooner or later.
As a result of as everybody is aware of, Cuomo has bother taking “no” for a solution.
His profession is survived by different pervy politicians who deal in backrooms on the expense of 8 million New Yorkers.
