Even if the worse poll approval rating is 59%, what is the problem?
Posted: 02/06/2013 5:24 pm
by Nadine Lemmon
...The Siena poll was in conflict with a Quinnipiac University poll last week that showed a precipitous drop in Cuomo's approval rating following the gun measure.
The Siena poll said Cuomo's approval slipped from 71% to 67% over the past month. The Quinnipiac poll said it fell from 74% to 59%....
...The Siena poll said voters supported the gun law 65% to 30%. Cuomo, a Democrat, has been one of the most popular governors in the country, and his approval had moved little since he took office in 2011.
The Siena poll did show Cuomo's popularity take a significant hit upstate and with Republicans because of the gun law. For the first time since taking office, more Republicans (54%) had an unfavorable view of Cuomo than had a favorable view (42%).
In upstate, Cuomo's favorability dropped to 54%, down from 61% last month, the poll said....
Siena College (click here) It is a New York college.
February 04, 2013
NY and Southern Tier Voters Nearly Evenly Divided on Fracking; Opponents More Passionate than Supporters
Cuomo’s Standing with Voters Slips a Little Overall, While Remaining Strong; More Dramatic Drop with Reps & Upstaters
2/3 Support New Gun Law; Majority: It Was Not Rushed Through
Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin apologizes for comparing Gov. Cuomo to Hitler and Mussolini (click here)
The Republican assemblyman, who was against the the governor's new gun control laws, complained that lawmakers in Albany are 'told basically to shut up and vote,' and then went on to say that Hitler would be proud of this practice.
BY KENNETH LOVETT / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013, 2:09 AM
...McLaughlin initially refused to retract his comments and took them further by also comparing Cuomo to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “How does Putin act over in Russia, same thing,” he said. “Dictate to the Legislature what they’re going to do. They’re rubber-stamping it.”
Later, in the face of criticism, he issued a video apologizing, calling it “an honest mistake” in the “heat of the moment.”
Posted: 02/06/2013 5:24 pm
...To close that week, (click here) hundreds of activists accompanied Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon as they delivered more than 200,000 public comments filed in opposition to the Cuomo administration's new proposed fracking regulations.
Despite this massive show of public opposition, Gov. Cuomo is still trying to figure out how to get away with fracking New York. Shockingly, an administration so famous for its sharp political acumen somehow thinks it can thread the needle and allow fracking without infuriating the progressive base it needs for its future. The administration has already floated numerous compromise plans, from declaring that certain urban watersheds will be off limits to drilling, to the "sacrifice zone" plan that would limit fracking to five Southern Tier counties. But notwithstanding this political maneuvering, common sense dictates that the devastating consequences of fracking won't confine themselves to county lines or underground watershed boundaries. The latest polls show that a majority of New Yorkers now see the obvious: that there is no such thing as safe fracking....
by Nadine Lemmon
As Tri-State surmised (click here) in an initial review of Governor Cuomo’s 2013-2014 Executive Budget last month, the Governor is proposing to use an old Albany budget “balancing” trick: diverting funds dedicated to the MTA for other uses.
This $20 million diversion of funds comes from a pot of money that is statutorily dedicated to cover the operating needs of the MTA. The Executive Budget, however, declared that this $20 million diversion is “surplus,” but there is no explanation of how funds are determined to be surplus. Because of increases in revenues from taxes dedicated to the MTA, the MTA did receive a 7.4 percent increase in the executive budget over last year’s budget. But given the volatility of the economy over the last few years, these days it is hard to say that anything is “surplus.”...
By AL BAKER
Published: January 30, 2013
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo warned (click here) the Bloomberg administration and the New York City teachers’ union on Wednesday that if they did not create a new teacher evaluation system quickly, he would move to impose one upon them.
Speaking plainly, the governor said at a news conference in the State Capitol that his “strong hope” was for the two sides to hammer out a settlement.
“If they don’t,” he said, “then let the state step in and let the state handle the evaluation process, determine an evaluation process, and impose it on the City of New York.”...
Just because Cuomo made the headlines for ground breaking gun laws for New York, there are many, many reasons why his approval rating is effected.
Joseph Spector, Gannett Albany Bureau
The Siena poll said Cuomo's approval slipped from 71% to 67% over the past month. The Quinnipiac poll said it fell from 74% to 59%....
...The Siena poll said voters supported the gun law 65% to 30%. Cuomo, a Democrat, has been one of the most popular governors in the country, and his approval had moved little since he took office in 2011.
The Siena poll did show Cuomo's popularity take a significant hit upstate and with Republicans because of the gun law. For the first time since taking office, more Republicans (54%) had an unfavorable view of Cuomo than had a favorable view (42%).
In upstate, Cuomo's favorability dropped to 54%, down from 61% last month, the poll said....
Siena College (click here) It is a New York college.
February 04, 2013
NY and Southern Tier Voters Nearly Evenly Divided on Fracking; Opponents More Passionate than Supporters
Cuomo’s Standing with Voters Slips a Little Overall, While Remaining Strong; More Dramatic Drop with Reps & Upstaters
2/3 Support New Gun Law; Majority: It Was Not Rushed Through
