This article was provided by Judge John H. Wilson, (ret.) who served on the bench in New York State
Why would the Democrats turn on their “messiah of governance?” Who is most responsible for bringing Cuomo to the brink of a disgraceful exit from office?
According to CNN, in May of 2018, “New York Attorney General Letitia James was only a few months into her second term as New York City’s public advocate when, over a few hours during a dinner party with friends, a stunning twist of fate put her on a collision course with the state’s most powerful man, Gov. Andrew Cuomo…then-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was leveled with a series of domestic and sexual abuse allegations. Within hours… Schneiderman had announced plans to step down. The next week, James declared her candidacy to replace him.”
Ironically, Cuomo supported James’ candidacy for Attorney General. “The pair, who exchanged endorsements that spring, made for strange political allies. James is a favorite of New York progressives, Cuomo their longtime rival and antagonist. But the support of the governor proved too much to turn down and, despite some grumbling on the left, James joined his ticket.”
Letitia James has made a remarkably fast rise in New York politics. According to her biography on the website for the Office of New York Attorney General, “(s)he is the first woman of color to hold statewide office in New York and the first woman to be elected Attorney General. In 2013, Ms. James was elected Public Advocate for the City of New York and became the first woman of color to hold citywide office…(p)rior to serving as Public Advocate, Tish James represented the 35th Council District in Brooklyn in the New York City Council for ten years. As a Council Member, she passed the Safe Housing Act, legislation that forced landlords to improve living conditions for tenants in New York City’s worst buildings.”
There can be no doubt that AG James is, and always has been, a progressive. “James won her first public office, a seat representing central Brooklyn on the New York City Council, in a 2003 special election, in which she ran exclusively as a Working Families Party candidate. With the party-cum-progressive pressure group’s help, she defeated the Democratic Party’s chosen candidate…” However, when she ran for Attorney General, “she sought the blessing of Gov. Cuomo, a sworn enemy of the WFP. James had a history of difficulty in raising money and Cuomo’s access to big donors looked essential.” Nonetheless, when she was elected, Bill Lipton, the New York State director of the Working Families Party, said “Tish James is going to be the strong, progressive attorney general we need to stand up to Donald Trump.” Further, “(a)t her victory party in Crown Heights, a diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn, James vowed to use the attorney general’s office to stand up to Trump ― and promised she’d remain the same scrappy fighter progressives had come to know and love.”
Now, after taking Cuomo’s endorsement and support, James has positioned herself to be Cuomo’s successor. “New York Democratic strategists, operatives and progressives are viewing state Attorney General Letitia James as an appealing primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo…Her bombshell reportabout how the coronavirus rocked New York’s nursing homes focused on the issue Cuomo rode to a heightened national profile during the past year…Several operatives said Democrats can’t make the same ‘mistake’ they have in the past, as one put it, and nominate a white, liberal woman…(James is) a Black woman at a time when the Democratic Party publicly calls that constituency the backbone of the party.”
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While the focus in media reports has been the Governor’s inappropriate sexual misconduct, the end for Cuomo begins with the James report. Not happy with a Governor who mouthed support for progressives, the extreme left wing of the Democratic party wasted no time in renouncing Cuomo and embracing James. As described by Politico, “The nursing-home probe had been ordered by the Cuomo administration itself when Covid-19 cases began to spike, but was all but forgotten as many political insiders regarded it as the kind of investigation in which a sympathetic AG could disguise any bad news amid caveats and contradictory findings. To their surprise — and the governor’s — the 76-page report was frank in its tone and clear in its assessment that the way the Cuomo administration tallied Covid-19 deaths in state nursing homes served to mask the true toll.
“Suddenly, one of the state’s most underestimated politicians may be holding the future of New York politics in her hands, even while she herself gets mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate…”
A more objective interpretation? James saw her opportunity to advance both the cause of progressives, and her own career, and took it.
What can New Yorker’s expect from a Governor James? Let us quote from the platform of the New York Working Families Party as an answer; “The Working Families Party is leading the fight for social, racial, and economic justice in New York state. By pushing for progressive legislation and by also training, recruiting and supporting progressive leaders to run for office, we form a unique bridge between progressive activism and electoral success.”
In other words, the old school, Democratic Machine, liberal politics of Andrew Cuomo is dead in New York State. All hail progressivism!
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