{"id":185673,"date":"2014-09-09T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/well-the-new-york-primary-results-should-be-coming-in-soon\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T00:12:00","slug":"well-the-new-york-primary-results-should-be-coming-in-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/well-the-new-york-primary-results-should-be-coming-in-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, the New York Primary Results Should Be Coming In Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just wanted to note that <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/09\/08\/cuomo-and-de-blasio-intimidate-democrats-backing-teachout\/\">Cuomo is going full arm breaker mode on endorsements<\/a>: (Yes, it is a <i>New York Post<\/i> link, but Andrew Cuomo has deliberately cultivated an image of tolerating no dissent)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de\u2009Blasio used threats and intimidation in recent days to block prominent Democrats from backing leftist law professors Zephyr Teachout and her running mate, Tim Wu, in Tuesday\u2019s primary, party insiders have told The Post.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The largely successful pressure has been especially intense to stop endorsements for Wu, who is given a real chance of defeating conservative-turned-\u201cprogressive\u201d former upstate Rep. Kathy Hochul, Cuomo\u2019s running mate for lieutenant governor, insiders said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cCuomo and de Blasio were pulling out all stops, making it clear that anyone who even considers endorsing Teachout or Wu will pay a big political price,\u201d said a prominent Democratic activist.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cCuomo especially is obsessed with Wu because he clearly thinks Wu has a chance to win, which would be a disaster for him,\u201d the activist continued.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">City Council members were told that pet projects would be endangered if they back either Teachout or Wu, said a source close to the council. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t believe how much we were intimidated and muscled,\u2019\u2019 said one.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still do not think that Teachout has a chance (WU does), but it is nice to see Andrew Cuomo sweating. <\/p>\n<p>I do hope that, if the report is accurate, (<i>NY Post<\/i>, after all) that de Blasio actually got something <b>BIG<\/b> for going to the mat for a governor who clearly loathes him and his agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just wanted to note that Cuomo is going full arm breaker mode on endorsements: (Yes, it is a New York Post link, but Andrew Cuomo has deliberately cultivated an image of tolerating no dissent) Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de\u2009Blasio used threats and intimidation in recent days to block prominent Democrats from backing leftist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}