Dicker says Cuomo 'indirectly' making the point that Obama should govern like him
Fred Dicker. Photo via howiewolf on Twitter.
11:17 am Dec. 27, 2011
Are the complaints from Governor (and prospective 2016 presidential candidate) Andrew Cuomo about the "gridlock in Washington" an implicit criticism of President Barack Obama?
It's something I tried getting a few New York Democrats to talk about recently.
Post state editor Fred Dicker, who is as close as the governor has to a confidante among the Albany's corps of legislative correspondents, spelled out the premise a little more clearly than Cuomo's colleagues in state government are willing to in an interview this morning with Curt Smith, a former White House speechwriter for George H. W. Bush.
Smith: "Obama wouldn't be in the problem that he's in, Fred, if he'd governed from Washington as Cuomo has from Albany."
Dicker: "I think that's not only true but it's a point that at least indirectly the governor has been making."
