You know everything you need to know – absolutely everything – about the current state of New York politics when you learn that liberal Governor Andrew Cuomo is now considered an conservative extremist.
The New York Daily News has the slant on the chant:
Gov. Cuomo’s speech on Sunday night to the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators was interrupted with chants of “Tax the rich!” led by City Councilman Charles Barron.
Cuomo received a warm welcome as he began to address the group, but within moments Barron (D-Brooklyn) did a Kanye West and stole the spotlight.
“Shame on you,” Barron yelled at Cuomo after walking from the back of the Albany Convention Center to the front.
“Stop the cuts,” Barron said.
“How are you tonight, Charles?” Cuomo said to Barron after the interruption. “I can’t see who it is, but I know who it is.”
Barron, a known rabble-rouser, seized the moment, yelling, “Tax the rich!”
Soon the chant caught on with a small but vocal group in the crowd of more than 500.
Cuomo’s budget calls for deep cuts to education and health care spending to close the state’s $10 billion deficit. He also opposes extension of the state’s so-called millionaire’s tax, which expires at the end of the year.
Why, next thing you know they’ll have signs comparing Cuomo to Hitler. You know, the little moustaches, the hair down across the forehead, the little swastikas.
Give it a week or so. We’ll be the first to say, “We told you so.”
Source: New York Daily News
