he’ll root out corruption, so he says, even though he punted rooting out corrruption as Attorney General.

Well, except for calling for the head of his black, blind, seated Governor predecessor.

From a speech Cuomo gave in April, 1998, about discrimination in public housing, and his unprecedented settlement with a bank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314

I’ve transcribed some of it here:
“The bank has also agreed to a 2.1 Billion – BILLION dollar agreement where they’ll make $2.1 billion available to families who are low and moderate income, across the country for mortgages. About 15,000 low and moderate income people will now be able to buy their own home because of the settlement we announced today.”

During the Q&A, session this is an answer to a question:

“They would not have qualified but for this affirmative action on the part of the bank.”

and this showing his ability to see the future:

“…with the $2.1 billion lending that amount in mortgages, which will be a higher risk and I’m sure there will be a higher default rate on those mortgages than on the rest of the portfolio…”

“And here we all thought that state Attorney Generals were attractive candidates for larger office.”

Can you say “Jerry Brown”? He’d be next on my list for a takedown after Cuomo.

…and from what they’re saying, it sounds like his platform is Christie’s platform, only coming from a Democrat and almost certainly all of it will be shorn off before Election Day. Examples:

Salary freeze for NY state workers
Cap state spending
Capping property taxes at 2% rate of inflation or lower
Freeze state income/corp taxes
20% reduction in number of state agencies
Consolidate 10,000 local governments
Lift charter school cap

Tell me those don’t sound EXACTLY like what Christie is doing right now.

It will not be shorn off until AFTER the elecion.

If New York gets another lunatic-left tax-and-spend d-crat socialist governor, they might as well change their name to New Greece and immediately file for bankruptcy to end the sufferings of its citizens as quickly as possible.

re: Andrew Cuomo’s, shall we say, not-so-perfect HUD history.

“But Cuomo’s history at HUD, as documented by the General Accounting Office and the agency’s own inspector general, however, raises questions about his effectiveness in managing a government agency.
snip

Hundreds of stories of abuse, however, still haunted HUD, as revealed by audits that were conducted by the agency’s inspector general. For example:

– The Puerto Rico Public Housing Agency (PHA) used $17 million in operating funds from HUD for ineligible disaster relief expenses. The audit report was published in March 2000.

– An audit conducted in 1999 on the Homebuyers Incentive Program in Troy, N.Y., revealed that the city did not disclose all relevant facts to HUD while awarding the brother of the deputy mayor a $27,500 grant. A $10,000 grant was awarded to the mayor’s secretary without HUD permission.

– An audit of the period from July 1997 through December 1999 called into question over $1 million spent by the Housing Authority of the City of Miami Beach (HACMB), and over $2 million in a failed project to provide housing and social services.
snip

One failed HUD program in particular stands out as a large blotch on Cuomo’s legacy in Washington. The 203(k) loan program, which was created to help revamp broken-down buildings and turn them into “affordable housing,” became the victim of fraudulent “flipping” schemes, according to a New York Times story in 2006. The turnaround renovation and resale schemes led to hundreds of foreclosures.
snip”

Read it all: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/print/36912

It doesn’t look like Andrew Cuomo did such a great job with HUD. Can we expect him to turn around New York State’s fiscal mess?