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Raging Gov: Cuomo Not Whistling a Happy Tune

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/18/14

Andrew Cuomo, perhaps having come to believe he can commit almost any politically dubious act and suffer no significant damage from a comfortably-numb electorate in his re-election run, was on quite a roll before, like a frat boy on a losing streak, he tried to change his luck with a road trip to Israel Aug. 12.

A day earlier, a Brooklyn State Supreme Court Justice thwarted his campaign’s labors to burrow into the nooks and crannies of Zephyr Teachout’s 2009 living arrangements in search of proof that she hadn’t been a state resident for every day of the past five years. One old Democratic Party hand explained this dubious maneuver by calling the Governor “biologically incapable” of doing anything else.

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