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Blake Zeff
In an op-ed posted on the Huffington Post late Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo strenuously demands that the State Senate pass public financing of elections, or risk him actively campaigning against them this fall. He also makes clear that such an achievement should occur by the end of session in late June.
The June time-frame Cuomo mentions in the HuffPo column—like his sudden hurry to get public financing done—is highly relevant.
It sets the goal for passage after the W.F.P. state committee meets on May 31 to determine the party’s gubernatorial nomination, and effectively to decide whether to go to war with Cuomo by backing a margin-damaging challenge from the left.
As has been well documented, relations between the governor and W.F.P. activists have been chilly for some time, amid big disagreements on everything from tax policy to charter schools and, of course, campaign finance reform.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)CELESTE KATZ
The progressive wing of the state Democratic Party doesn't want Gov. Cuomo to run for re-election on the Independence Party line — and plans to tell him so at their upcoming convention.
"You cannot be for ethics and good government and then turn a blind eye to the corrupt practices of [the Independence] party. Those two things just do not go together," Jay Jacobs, head of the Nassau Democrats, told the Daily News.
If the Independence Party doesn't garner 50,000 votes for whichever candidate it backs for governor, it will lose its right to an automatic spot on the ballot
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/progressive-dems-push-gov-cuomo-forgo-independence-party-line-blog-entry-1.1782629#ixzz312OIZ7a5
