Cuomo renews vow to veto 'partisan' lines; clashes with lawmaker
Newsday > News > Breaking Spin Cycle News, views and commentary on Long Island, state and national politics `` Previous postLIA backs Nassau arena plan View all Cuomo renews vow to veto 'partisan' lines; clashes with lawmaker Wednesday July 6, 2011 6:07 PM By Dan Janison Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, as noted in this upstate report , pledged again to veto any redistricting map for 2012 that does not represent a non-partisan plan. In the process, legislative task force member Assemb. Jack McEneny termed it petty and dumb to issue a veto on anything other than the merits of the lines. Anti-gerrymandering activist Ed Koch, the former NYC mayor, praised Cuomo's position. Tags: Andrew Cuomo , Ed Koch , redistricting , Albany , Jack McEneny User rating: Click to rate Comments Log in to comment Publish this comment to Facebook ``of course that is right. There's a long historical record of Soviet and Chinese Marxists being against all party activities except of course their own. My view is that single party dominance is a particular form of a general disease inherent in unexamined free form 'party government'. In a two party disease there is check of one disease on the other but ultimately because of how natural Darwinism is perverted in human society the true believers end up as the fittest survivors. Immense credit is due to Ayn Rand for that insight. 3:52 AM
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is blaming Republican ``extremists'' for punishing fellow party members who voted for his initiative to legalize gay marriage in New York.