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> this incredibly progressive action

..that never would've happened if Cuomo didn't feel real heat from Cynthia Nixon.

A complete miss. The Mayor and Council have been moving in the direction of ceasing to prosecute lesser crimes for several years. But more importantly the DA is an elected position. Nixon and Cuomo's drama is at the state level and pretty far removed. NYS hasn't legalized cannabis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_County_District_Att...

Huh? This doesn't have anything to do with Cuomo. This is the New York County (Manhattan) DA, who is himself an elected official.

People are so incredibly desperate to attribute things to people who haven't really done anything. I hate Cuomo too, but I'm not going to descend into nonsense peddling in order to fight him. It only serves to undermine any actual effort of resistance to the man.

> People are so incredibly desperate to attribute things to people who haven't really done anything. I hate Cuomo too, but I'm not going to descend into nonsense peddling in order to fight him. It only serves to undermine any actual effort of resistance to the man.

The New York State political machine is incredibly corrupt and interconnected. And Cuomo himself is more powerful and influential at all levels of state government (which includes country-level positions) than any governor since, well, his father. It's really not unreasonable to suspect he had a hand in this.

What Cuomo wants, Cuomo gets.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

These aren't extraordinary claims by any means. Historically New York politics have been exceptionally corrupt.

Poor Galileo.

maybe this is true, maybe not. But polls show he is up 40 points on her[0]. Maybe internal polling shows a different race, but not clear to me from publicly available information that he is feeling "real heat".

0:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/governor/ny/ne...

> maybe this is true, maybe not. But polls show he is up 40 points on her[0]. Maybe internal polling shows a different race, but not clear to me from publicly available information that he is feeling "real heat".

He's trying to run up the score to make it look like he has a mandate. If Nixon gets anything close to what Teachout got four years ago, it'll look bad for his 2020 presidential run.

Are you asserting Cuomo had some influence on the Manhattan DA's decision? Can you point to a reference?

No I can't. You're probably right and it's a complete coincidence this is happening the day before the primary.

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