New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is running for the Democratic nomination in 2020. He presents himself as the anti-Trump, the real progressive.
But New York progressives don’t buy it. They know that Cuomo has helped Republicans retain control of the State Senate. The Assembly passes progresssive legislation, and the State Senate kills it. An”independent” group of Democrats in the senate vote with the GOP.
Cuomo has refused to help his own party. He likes divided government.
Cuomo has been dreadful on education issues. He is the champion of charter schools. He has pushed tax credits for religious schools.
Public schools? He doesn’t like them.
To learn more, read this article:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/cuomo-new-york-idc-clinton-resistance
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As bad as any governor (and that’s saying something) on education. First I can remember to make use of the phrase labelling public schools as monopolies.
Dismaying to see that he’s popular in New York state: https://morningconsult.com/2018/02/01/governor-rankings-jan-2018/
Undoubtedly the first Democrat to call public schools a monopoly.
Like Trump, Andrea Cuomo is a Manopoly.
That’s what The Mywayman” is all about.
With Cuomo, it’s “my way or the highway”, which makes the highway look very good indeed.
Andrew.
Apologies to Andrea.
As the article states, Cuomo is social liberal, but fiscally conservative. A true progressive would support public education, not put a 2% cap on budget increases. Like other neoliberals, he is duplicitous. He talks like a man of the people, but his biggest donors are the hedge funds on Wall St. Cuomo has ignored a court order to fairly fund New York City schools. Any governor that truly cared about the plight of poor children would have delivered more funds to NYC.
“Socially liberal but fiscally conservative” seems to be so prevalent in Democratic pols.
It’s funny because there is no match for that on the other side- there are no “socially conservative but fiscally liberal” Republicans.
I guess the ONE thing they all agree upon is on conservative economic policy 🙂
“Truthfully Conservative”
When politicians claim
Conservative and Lib
They really are to blame
For telling us a fib
You got this right, retired teacher. Cuomo is duplicitous indeed. He has HIS and that is all that matters to him. SAD.
It’s not possible to be socially liberal if one is fiscally conservative. The two are mutually exclusive. Fiscally conservative policies always harm the constituencies that liberals claim to value – women, children, people of color, LGBTQ people, disabled people, etc.
Utter nonsense. Those who claim to be fiscal conservatives as defined by Reagan-esque norms are fiscally irresponsible, there’s nothing conservative about it. One can very much be a social liberal and fiscal conservative if one is fiscally responsible. That means not spending almost 60% of the annual discretionary budget on the military. It means that military spending can be cut to be to five or six times more than the nation in second place rather than more than ten times. If that were done, there would be more than enough to responsibly spend on social programs and maintain other national obligations. That’s fiscally conservative. That’s why I supported people like Nelson Rockefeller and John Anderson when became politically active.
when “fiscal conservative” simply means I Am Wealthy….?
The US Department of Education is promoting charters and private schools by tweeting how many students attend those schools.
Notably missing? How many students attend public schools. I understand why they omit public schools- the number in public schools far exceeds those in charters and private schools.
Once again public schools are treated as the unfashionable default that can be completely ignored by lawmakers.
They take public school families for granted. THEY have such low regard for our schools they assume we share their disdain.
We should demand more from them. Treating 90% of US families as if they are some “control” group, useful only to be dismissed as “a monopoly” or “the status quo” is ludicrous, and a measure of how completely captured they are by the ed reform “movement”. They ignore 90% of US students because those students attend the schools they oppose. That’s not even rock-bottom “doing their job” let alone adding any value.
And if he gets the nomination, then what? He’s still better than a Republican, so everyone should hold their nose and vote for him?
#1.
Work like crazy to defeat Cuomo in the primary.
#2.
If Cuomo wins primary and is in the general election, consider who is opponent is.
Is he a right wing proto fascist who thinks white power ku klux planners are “nice guys”? Has he spent the last 6 years looking the American people in the eye and saying that he has a copy of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and the alt right white power haters should know that Obama is an illegitimate President? Has he promoted a fake University that takes money from people who can’t afford it with the promise that attending his university will make them rich? Have his companies been propped up by laundering money? Has he shown that he will say and do anything – including telling the public the Ted Cruz’ dad helped assassinate JFK – because he has absolutely no sense of what is right and what is wrong except anything that gets him what he wants is right?
If that is the choice, you hold your nose and vote for Cuomo and once he defeats the pro fascist who is a danger to democracy, you fight to get the public to support the things you believe in.
You don’t say “the proto fascist is no worse than Cuomo so it doesn’t matter if he wins”.
#3.
If Cuomo wins primary and is in the general election, and his opponent is a typical Republican who is very conservative but believes in the norms of democracy, vote for a third party candidate.
I hope this helps.
Relax he is not getting the nomination .
Booker/Cuomo in 2020: Making the DeVos agenda a bipartisan legacy.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of confidence that the Sanders/Warren ticket wouldn’t also make the DeVos agenda a bipartisan legacy.
If we want to stop the DeVos agenda, we need a Kaine/de Blasio ticket. Or Sanders and Warren to step it up in supporting public education.
But I certainly think Sanders/Warren would be terrific on other issues, even if public schools would continue to get screwed.
So if charters lived up to the standards of this position paper from the early primaries (most don’t) . Where is your problem . We can argue that the selection process leaves Public Schools with an increased burden . But that too does not have to be.
“Bernie does not oppose charter schools–that is, schools that are privately managed but funded by taxes. Indeed, Bernie voted for the Charter School Expansion Act of 1998. Nonetheless, Bernie believes that these institutions must be “held to the same standards of transparency as public schools” to ensure accountability for these privately managed organizations. It is worth noting that while charter schools are privately managed, do not charge tuition to students and are considered public schools
Bernie’s stance on charter schools is similar to that of both the AFT and NEA teacher’s unions, which do not oppose charter schools, but seek to ensure that they are run in ways that benefit the students. The NEA, for example, shares Bernie’s concern that these schools must be run transparently to increase accountability: “As taxpayer-funded schools, charter schools must operate in a manner that is transparent and accountable to the families and communities they serve.”
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Bernie_Sanders_Education.htm
FYI, that sounds exactly like DFER’s position. And probably just like the position of Corey Booker.
Actions speak louder than words. When Bernie Sanders offers any direct criticism of those “public charters” who have stellar results instead of sitting next to Andrew Cuomo and praising him for caring so much about education, I’ll believe that the meaningless words where “accountability” means “look how so many of their kids are passing state tests”.
Until then, I’m not going to fool myself into thinking the man who has never said one bad word about “public” charters that suspend and lose huge numbers of at-risk 5 year olds has any interest in changing the status quo. He’ll fight against vouchers and for-profit charters. Woo hoo!
Did you notice I said that the Sanders/Warren ticket would be terrific on other issues? Did you notice that although I said public schools would continue to get screwed, that I did not say that Bernie refused to criticize charters for some nefarious and corrupt reason because you can’t trust a word he says?
If Sanders/Warren was the party nomination, I would fight like a dog to elect them even if I know they are far more pro-charter than I like. Because I can understand that a position that is more conservative on charters can be taken without it being a sign of utter corruption and dishonesty and “doing the bidding of right wing billionaires”.
I happen to disagree with them on charters. I wish they agreed with me. But I understand that Warren and Sanders are upright and honest politicians who should be elected if they are the nominee — especially if they are running against someone like Trump.
The odds of a Sanders-Warren ticket are close to zero