Watertown Daily Times Labels NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo a "Bully" Over His Strangle Hold on Public Infomation

Thank you WDT.  Although admittedly that is a really edgy statement for the Times.

 Here is the quote from the Times it's readers.

"But I thought you ought to know what a bully your governor has become."

You can see the whole opinion piece at this link.

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20131013/OPINION04/710139850

However, they are spot on, on Cuomo, and it extends to other issues.  His same bullying extends to the NY Safe Act... and his 2011 Power NY Act that removed NY communities home rule rights on land use issues involving electric energy siting.

Both pieces of legislation were pass under dubious legislative circumstances.  How exactly does he exert such control over NY legislators?  Does he have a file full of dirt on all off them?

Now if you follow this blog you know that I have been hammering Cuomo and the NY legislators and our town officials that have sucked up to the "bully" on both sides of the isle on the Art. X legislation that has shackled NY communities  by removing home rule and  siting through local zoning laws on electric generating facilities including Cuomo's favorite renewables like industrial wind power.

Such is the case right here in CV with BP using Cuomo's Art X system to circumvent our zoning to site an  absurdly invasive wind farm in CV so close to the treasured 1000 Islands that would also destroy our community.

I have been hammering on the point that in Cape Vincent and  as NNY communities we should not be enabling and validating this bully governor and his behavior.  Seems as though, although it be in another area, the WDT is also finally understanding the point as the bullying invades their turf...access to information!!!!  

But there is a bigger picture of bullying NNY wind threatened communities as well.

Our CV officials have gone so far as to even call Cuomo's Art. X system fair and impartial and even handed and balanced.  The primary reason bullies get away with their  behavior is because we enable them to do so, and that is what Cape Vincent and other local towns are doing by playing in fear of his Art X game while their citizens are bullied into the removal of their rights.  They try to appease this governor and his bully system and I have been trying to get them to see it is just plain wrong to not radically stand up and politically oppose this bullying!

Bottom line we should not be rushing and scrambling to write wind zoning regulations  in some delusion to appease a bully governor and the legislators he apparently holds a hammer over.  Not to mention that this head long rush to get a new zoning law as quickly as possible to appease and react in fear to Cuomo's legislation has already created several major zoning fiascos in CV, that expose how faulty parts of our zoning are.  And now we have numerous town officials including the town supervisor admitting the new zoning has problems and people aren't administering it correctly.  And even he got caught crosswise in the mess.

It is long past time to stop enabling bully Cuomo's Art X system and stand up for our home rule rights and refuse to participate in Art X as a town and region.

It is flat out wrong to keep appeasing the bully!  And thank you to the Watertown Daily Times for standing up and pointing out we should not tolerate Cuomo's bullying  on access to public information.  Nor do I think we should tolerate  his shackling of NY communities on energy project siting either!

Same bully different issue!