Governor Cuomo: The Greatest Showman

 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rolled out one marquee project after another. But has he neglected the state’s less flashy infrastructure needs?

By Sarah Goodyear

Step right up ladies and gentlemen, to see the unstoppable construction governor in action!

See Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a tunnel under the Hudson River, kicking with his work boots at metal corroded by flooding from Superstorm Sandy!

Watch him drive President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1932 Packard across a new bridge with colored lights! See him driving the Packard across another magnificent new bridge, this one named for his father!

Ring in the new year with the governor in a gleaming new subway station! See him break ground at the site of a solar panel factory in South Buffalo! Posing atop a trucked-in pile of dirt on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport, his elegantly shod foot on a shovel!

Cuomo is kicking off his third term armed with a thick portfolio of photo ops like these and an agenda for more of the same. More than any New York chief executive in recent memory, he has embraced the role of builder, repeatedly throwing his considerable political muscle behind big-ticket items.

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Source: City&State New York (via Empire Report New York)