Comments on: Too much green? http://nature.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/02/too-much-green/ A blog about nature and the environment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Artisan33 http://nature.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/02/too-much-green/comment-page-1/#comment-1501 Artisan33 Mon, 05 May 2008 14:19:15 +0000 http://nature.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/02/too-much-green/#comment-1501 Giving it some thought, I have to wonder why Cuomo seems so lost in space. It's hard to sit in one's mansion, aloof from the populace, and then try to figure out what they give a hoot about. Having been raised in the expectation of being NY governor one day, this distancing process gets even more isolating, by virtue of family expectations being the target, the goal, and the motivation for every public act.(not public need). Since the people don't really care if you become governor, you have to search around, for some group to lead, or some issue to proclaim, to substitute for not being one of the people, knowing their needs by living them, and constructing a viable program to improve their lives, in ways that matter to them. So we get PR gaffes. We get lapses of judgement. We get Elitist designer issues, straight out of Huffington Post, shoved down the throats of a populace, who if asked, would ask for some very different and specific things. They would ask, 73% to 27%, to not be bothered with the Indian Point as holocaust scenario any longer. They would ask for repaired roads, lower house taxes, and school tax relief for elder citizens. They would ask for some answer, any answer to the immigration dilemma, and they would ask that local jobs be preserved. They would ask for stability, cohesiveness, and just plain ethics in state government. They would ask for (even beg for) an end to the use of demagogery and hysteria in voting campaigns, remembering the last great "Ethical Leap Forward" proposed by the late Mr. Spitzer, in his holier than thou stealing of the state house, and what an embarrassing lie it turned out to be. They might even ask Mr. Cuomo to maybe poll the state, and get issues from below , where the problems are, instead of cherry picking designer issues from pages of the political fashion magazines, for all of us to "live up to" ( ala Spitzer ?). But no, he didn't do that. He just sent Kit Kennedy out to "Huffington them" about wispy green fantasies, and they stayed away in droves. Spitzer, Cuomo, Paterson. The non-existent New York State administration. I guess its better than Huey Long.( or Pol Pot) Giving it some thought, I have to wonder why Cuomo seems so lost in space.

It’s hard to sit in one’s mansion, aloof from the populace, and then try to figure out what they give a hoot about.

Having been raised in the expectation of being NY governor one day, this distancing process gets even more isolating, by virtue of family expectations being the target, the goal, and the motivation for every public act.(not public need).

Since the people don’t really care if you become governor, you have to search around, for some group to lead, or some issue to proclaim, to substitute for not being one of the people, knowing their needs by living them, and constructing a viable program to improve their lives, in ways that matter to them.

So we get PR gaffes.

We get lapses of judgement.

We get Elitist designer issues, straight out of Huffington Post, shoved down the throats of a populace, who if asked, would ask for some very different and specific things.

They would ask, 73% to 27%, to not be bothered with the Indian Point as holocaust scenario any longer.

They would ask for repaired roads, lower house taxes, and school tax relief for elder citizens. They would ask for some answer, any answer to the immigration dilemma, and they would ask that local jobs be preserved. They would ask for stability, cohesiveness, and just plain ethics in state government.

They would ask for (even beg for) an end to the use of demagogery and hysteria in voting campaigns, remembering the last great “Ethical Leap Forward” proposed by the late Mr. Spitzer, in his holier than thou stealing of the state house, and what an embarrassing lie it turned out to be.

They might even ask Mr. Cuomo to maybe poll the state, and get issues from below , where the problems are, instead of cherry picking designer issues from pages of the political fashion magazines, for all of us to “live up to” ( ala Spitzer ?).

But no, he didn’t do that. He just sent Kit Kennedy out to “Huffington them” about wispy green fantasies, and they stayed away in droves. Spitzer, Cuomo, Paterson. The non-existent New York State administration.

I guess its better than Huey Long.( or Pol Pot)

]]> By: Artisan33 http://nature.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/02/too-much-green/comment-page-1/#comment-1500 Artisan33 Mon, 05 May 2008 10:45:26 +0000 http://nature.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/02/too-much-green/#comment-1500 I'm glad you noticed that Mr. Cuomo's anti-Indian Point "campaign" is just his own personal vendetta. No administration stands behind him on this. No bill has been passed by the state assembly, no official policy has been written, and the heads of DEC and other agencies were not consulted. Many see him taking this position as an open grab for the same 8000 votes that put Rep. John Hall over the top. The antinuke mailing list(s), as held by just a few groups, adds up to about 8000 names. In a tight Democratic primary, 8000 is more than enough to ensure victory. If you look at yesterdy's event as Cuomo's first primary stump speech, 50 people ain't so bad. Besides, the biggest engine of green in our area, is the clean silent Indian Point, powering our lives with not a single molecule of smoke, soot, or CO2. If Andy wants to be Green, he better turn pro-nuke. I’m glad you noticed that Mr. Cuomo’s anti-Indian Point “campaign” is just his own personal vendetta. No administration stands behind him on this. No bill has been passed by the state assembly, no official policy has been written, and the heads of DEC and other agencies were not consulted. Many see him taking this position as an open grab for the same 8000 votes that put Rep. John Hall over the top. The antinuke mailing list(s), as held by just a few groups, adds up to about 8000 names. In a tight Democratic primary, 8000 is more than enough to ensure victory.

If you look at yesterdy’s event as Cuomo’s first primary stump speech, 50 people ain’t so bad.

Besides, the biggest engine of green in our area, is the clean silent Indian Point, powering our lives with not a single molecule of smoke, soot, or CO2.

If Andy wants to be Green, he better turn pro-nuke.

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