Andrew Cuomo’s long record of failing New York

Gov. Andrew Cuomo always painted himself as New York’s rock — the one guy who could keep the state together, the man holding off the lunacy of the far left, the leader who got us through the depths of COVID. It was largely bunk.

Yes, Cuomo in his first two years put New York on a steadier financial footing, mainly by junking the insane spending plans set out by his predecessors and instituting a cap on property-tax growth in most of the state. And he stepped on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to kneecap the city’s charter schools and to slap millionaires with yet another tax. Yet ever since, he’s only led the retreat against the left. By his third term, the radicals had won an utter rout, as he signed on to criminal-justice “reforms” that fueled a monstrous rise in violent crime. New Yorkers are now paying the price with their lives.