It’s no secret that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo would like to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president. But first he must be re-elected in New York in 2018. He has already stockpiled more than $25 million, which will intimidate potential challengers.
The 1% are on board with Cuomo. Read about his fundraising cocktail party in the Hamptons at a home that cost $147 million.
Among his biggest donors are charter supporters.
“Ravenel Curry III, founder of Eagle Capital Management, chipped in $65,000.
“Great Public Schools PAC, which is headed by Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, contributed $50,000. Financier John Petry on the Success board, donated $20,000
“Walmart heir Jim Walton, a charter-school advocate, and Carrie Penner, the granddaughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, each gave $25,000.”
Curry is a founding member of DFER.
Who knew that Eva has her own political action committee?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Colorado: 2/3 of the $300k Michael Johnston raised last quarter is from out of state. If elected, the father of the most punitive teacher “evaluation ” bill will certainly be beholden to out of state people and agendas. Sad.
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AWFUL. I have wondered why outside $$$$$ from another state is allowed to do this.
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Oh that Michael Johnston enters this race only to be exposed, harassed, blamed and humiliated.
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Cuomo has a $25 million dollar warchest so far with significant donations from all the usual suspects. Donors with education ties include:
http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2015/07/16/gov-cuomo-continues-to-bring-in-money-from-donors-with-education-ties/
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“Skeletons”
Skeletons are spilling
Upon the bedroom floor
Cuz skeletons are filling
Behind the closet door
The governor is running
From past and all the bones
But skeletons are coming
And texting on their phones
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The biggest skeleton
https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/08/05/andrew-cuomo-and-fannie-and-freddie/
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Wow, and teachers’ unions are the problems. And, teachers with their Hamptons lifestyles. Oh wait, they don’t have that lifestyle. They’re working class, not hedge-fund class.
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I just checked and Cuomo had a high approval rating according to polls but now it is in a dive.
Cuomo’s statewide approval rating slipped to 46 percent positive and 38 percent negative — his lowest numbers since September 2015, the poll of 1,137 New York voters found. …
Fifty-six percent polled said Cuomo would not make a good president.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/12/cuomos-approval-ratings-get-torched-by-summer-of-hell/
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I cannot see Cuomo as presidential material. He has traded on his father’s name, and I doubt he will get much attention out of New York for that.
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I agree, but Cuomo has a twisted ego on a par with #FakePresident Trump’s, the Koch brothers, the Waltons, Bill Gates, Eli Broad, Richard Mercer, etc. And he has ass kissers who keep telling him what he wants to hear as they shovel money into his campaign.
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These shysters have shattered ANY conceivable justification for their “positions”
and no longer have any credibility. Is it time to heed the evidence of our senses,
and the stirring in our hearts? It it time to actually speak truth to power?
Are their “positions” nothing more than a product of “invented tradition”?
Positions based on a set of practices of a ritual, of symbolic nature, designed
to inculcate certain illusions.
The invocations of Democracy continue to clash with reality, yet they are
continued, as though it wasn’t an illusion.
Is it a “love is blind” thing? If we had a “seat at the table” (democracy),
NONE of this SHIT would fly…
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“A place at the table”
We need a place at the table
To get a better deal
We’ve got a place at the table
Because we are the meal
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Cuomo is a great example of someone that poses as a democrat. The reality is that he is really what used to be called a moderate republican. He is only registered as a democrat because he knows it gives him a better chance of being elected in NY state. I never voted for Cuomo because he represents the wing of the party that has destroyed the democrat party. These Wall Street democrats threw their traditional base under the bus assuming these people always would vote democrat. They finally got so frustrated with the democrat party that they fell for the Trump con and voted republican. This is why Trump won plain and simple. The democrat party will continue to lose elections as long as they think Wall Street money is more important that their traditional base. Presently we have only one party even though they have different labels. Democrats need to elect progressives to succeed.
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Cuomo does whatever it takes to get the campaign dollars and is dismissive and even spiteful toward any who disagree with him.
He will do great as a Republican candidate for President.
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