For Cuomo, familiar music with some new notes
In 2019, however, the Democratic-controlled Legislature approved a huge chunk of these perennial proposals. That forced Cuomo to come up with an unprecedented amount of new material for his 2020 State of the State address on Wednesday.
The end result was still a very Cuomonian speech: New York, he said, needs to pass monumental pieces of progressive legislation. Particularly those that don’t make the budget soar.
I am pretty sure the same could be said about Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republicans, but then again, they weren't so concerned about letting the budget soar, especially back in the day. But then again, things kind of ended badly for New York with the rent strike putting the Urban Development Corporation and all of New York State at the edge by mid-1970s.
