Andrew Cuomo is presenting himself as a sensible, competent executive who can pull New York City back from its current leadership crisis. His candidacy announcement video claims that he will bring back a new era of effective and capable good government to New York City. Cuomo hopes New Yorkers will forget that he spent a decade as governor pushing austerity and cutting funding to our basic social services, including those he claims to care so much for. From schools, transportation, housing, and higher education, Cuomo pushed the interests of the rich donor class over working New Yorkers.
On March 1, Cuomo released a seventeen–minute video announcing his official entry into the crowded New York City Democratic primary for mayor His decision came after months of gossip and speculation that he might run, following Mayor Eric Adams’s public disgrace in the wake of a federal indictment on corruption charges,…