Cuomo's bizarre plan to force New Yorkers to get new license plates [View all]
Leave it to Gov. Cuomo to come up with a wacky Rube Goldberg-like scheme, even for something as small-time as license plates.
Cuomo this week announced that the state is changing the style of its plates, and everyone with vehicles more than 10 years old will have to get one.
Oh, it’ll cost you an extra $25 — plus $20 more to keep the same plate numbers.
As E.J. McMahon notes in his column, Team Cuomo tried to present the change more as a fun contest than a new fee: New Yorkers get to vote on one of five possible designs, four that show the Statue of Liberty and one featuring the new Tappan Zee — er, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo — Bridge.
Critics speculate that the selections are rigged, because they’ll divide the pro-Statue of Liberty vote, leaving the plate with the monument to Cuomo’s dad likely to win.
“This indeed seems kind of rigged,” polling expert Nate Silver tweeted. “A bunch of near-identical Statue of Liberty designs will split the SoL vote.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2019/08/23/cuomos-bizarre-plan-to-force-new-yorkers-to-get-new-license-plates/
Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the opening of the first span of the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge back in 2017. Darren McGee- Office of Governor
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