Many NYS Legislative Dems Want Mayor de Blasio To Take It Slower

[hrmjustin]

BY KEN LOVETT

Here is an expanded version of my "Albany Insider" column today:

State legislative Democrats waited two decades for a New York City mayor from their party, but now that their wish has come true, many want him to slow down.

Already in a tooth-and-nail battle over his push to pay for expanded prekindergarten programs by raising the city income tax on the wealthy, Mayor de Blasio surprised state legislative allies last week when he proposed last week the creation of a separate city minimum wage. Both ideas need state approval and are opposed by Democratic Gov. Cuomo.

“It's too much at once. It should be one big issue at a time,” groused one Democratic senator. “His agenda is definitely welcome, but a lot of liberals in the Legislature, and I’m one of them, are saying he’s giving us too much to chew.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics

[Squinch]

1. Starting a preK is "too much at once?" Don't people making lame objections EVER come up

with anything new?

Raise the damn tax! (Because we all know that all objections are really fear of the tax.)

[hrmjustin]

2. I hope he does not listen to them. He needs to make Cuomo and those so called Democrats in

Albany uncomfortable.

[Squinch]

3. Clearly he already has! And I agree. I am rooting for him to stand tough.

[hrmjustin]

4. These independent senate Democrats need to be defeated in the primaries because their garbage is

spreading in albany.

[GoneFishin]

5. Yeah. ALEC blankets the country with extreme right wing agendas like a foot of snow

plopping on all 50 states simultaneously, but progressives have to be timid and exercise moderation, lest they appear too "radical".

[hrmjustin]

6. It is sad!

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Exactly. We are the timid party, in reality

the Democratic Party is conservative and the Republican Party is radical, but they are poles of right wing ideology. Democrats are opposed to change. They seek to maintain the current center right status quo. Republicans are hell bent on moving things even further right. An actual center left Democrat is an embarrassment to the party.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Hmmm. Ya.

They're waaaay too busy figuring out how to de-fang the Moreland (corruption) Commission.

They can't be bothered w. all this socialist spread-the-wealth crapola.

[hrmjustin]

8. Sad that a progressive state has to have these type of Albany Democrats.