Gov. Cuomo Makes Republican-Friendly Re-Election Pitch At Midtown Meetup
BY CELESTE KATZ
Gov. Cuomo made his re-election pitch to GOP powerbrokers at the Harvard Club Thursday, with attendees saying he sought to strike a politically moderate, fiscally conservative tone while urging them to return a Democrat to the state's highest office.
"He was strong. He expressed his ideas. He was good," one of the hosts, financier Donald Marron, told the Daily News after the morning meetup.
"It was not a political kind of a talk. He talked about the city, what's been accomplished, what should be accomplished. He talked about lower taxes," Marron said. "He talked about fracking a little bit [and the] big study of the health impact on New York."
Outside the club, penned in by police barricades, about 100 demonstrators waved signs and chanted, urging Cuomo to push for an increase in the state's minimum wage and ban natural-gas hydrofracking in the state.
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