{"id":14735,"date":"2012-12-06T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-06T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:29:46","slug":"2016-cuomo-betrays-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/06\/2016-cuomo-betrays-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"2016: Cuomo betrays Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey California Democrats! Were you entertaining any thoughts about supporting Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Presidential Primary in 2016? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/05\/1167526\/-Cuomo-blames-Democrats-for-state-Senate-dysfunction-except-those-who-ve-sided-with-the-GOP\">don&#8217;t.<\/a> Just, don&#8217;t do it. Because whatever push he may have done for marriage equality in the state of New York, he&#8217;s a Lieberman-style villain who has betrayed the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/05\/1167396\/-Renegade-Democrats-keep-NY-state-Senate-in-GOP-hands-Cuomo-complicit\">Markos Moulitsas&#8217; take<\/a> for the full story. The bottom line is that even though Democrats have more seats in the New York State Senate than do Republicans, five Democrats formed the so-called &#8220;Independent Democratic Caucus&#8221; that is now affiliating with the champers Republicans and handing control to them. All with Cuomo&#8217;s tacit consent and approval: as Moulitsas says, Gov. Cuomo endorsed some Republicans for the Senate, and didn&#8217;t offer an opinion on which party he&#8217;d like to see control the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>So bottom line? If you feel a sense of obligation to Cuomo because he got marriage equality in New York, I get it. But there will be plenty of Democratic candidates who strongly support marriage equality, and the Democratic Party can do better than the next Joe Lieberman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey California Democrats! Were you entertaining any thoughts about supporting Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Presidential Primary in 2016? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/05\/1167526\/-Cuomo-blames-Democrats-for-state-Senate-dysfunction-except-those-who-ve-sided-with-the-GOP\">don&#8217;t.<\/a> Just, don&#8217;t do it. Because whatever push he may have done for marriage equality in the state of New York, he&#8217;s a Lieberman-style villain who has betrayed the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/05\/1167396\/-Renegade-Democrats-keep-NY-state-Senate-in-GOP-hands-Cuomo-complicit\">Markos Moulitsas&#8217; take<\/a> for the full story. The bottom line is that even though Democrats have more seats in the New York State Senate than do Republicans, five Democrats formed the so-called &#8220;Independent Democratic Caucus&#8221; that is now affiliating with the champers Republicans and handing control to them. All with Cuomo&#8217;s tacit consent and approval: as Moulitsas says, Gov. Cuomo endorsed some Republicans for the Senate, and didn&#8217;t offer an opinion on which party he&#8217;d like to see control the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>So bottom line? If you feel a sense of obligation to Cuomo because he got marriage equality in New York, I get it. But there will be plenty of Democratic candidates who strongly support marriage equality, and the Democratic Party can do better than the next Joe Lieberman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[10900,7293],"class_list":["post-14735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-10900","tag-7293"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3PF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}