With $9B deficit, Cuomo faces hard choices
Photo credit: Pool Photo | Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo as passes under the Tappan Zee bridge on his inspection tour of the bridge today. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Andrew M. Cuomo
Former New York Gov. David A. Paterson
His father liked to say that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But Andrew Cuomo skipped the pretty phrases in this mad-as-hell year as he crisscrossed the Empire State seeking to lead a government he called disreputable, discredited and a "national disgrace." New York State can't spend what it doesn't have, he warned voters. Prepare to tighten your belts.
A budget gap of $9 billion...
