Cuomo would be great - except everyone around him has been getting convicted of corruption

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First it was Percoco, Cuomo’s former campaign manager, close confidante and surrogate brother. Then, in trials reprising their 2015 convictions, it was Silver and Skelos, onetime leaders of the Assembly and state Senate, respectively. Just before the indictments came down in early 2015, Cuomo referred to the two of them and himself as "three amigos."

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“The New York electorate seems to be inured to corruption, they seem to believe it’s normal and expected behavior,” said Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz. “The cynicism is manifested in low turnout, and the inability to get any serious traction for reform. The Legislature has learned that reform is not a live-or-die issue.”

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"This is, in classic terms, almost Marxist," McMahon said. "This is the state owning the means of production. It’s corporate welfare on steroids."

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