By Alan Colmes
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, sounding much like his father, the great orator
Mario, urged a
return to progressivism, with his state as an example.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, had two emotional fulcrums
in his sprawling 78-minute address: gun violence and Hurricane Sandy. But most
of the speech was devoted to an onslaught of proposals favored by the left wing
of his party.
He proposed increasing the minimum wage to $8.75
an hour from $7.25 an hour, public financing of elections, tougher greenhouse
gas standards, solar jobs programs, a $1 billion affordable housing initiative,
grants for schools that extend school days and a 10-point women’s rights program
that garnered loud applause for its provisions strengthening abortion rights
laws and enacting equal pay legislation.
“We are a community based on progressive
principles,” the governor said, in a speech to several hundred lawmakers and
guests at an auditorium in the Capitol complex. “We must remain that progressive
capital of the nation.”
2016 anyone?
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