KINGSTON – “Hudson
Valley is going to be ground zero in this next election,” Governor
Andrew Cuomo told Democratic Party faithful at a Kingston rally on Sunday.
“This is the place that is going to be transformative; this is the
place where Democrats are going to come out stronger than ever before
and we will have more Democratic victories than ever before and we are
going turn this state.”
Cuomo is being challenged in his own party by actress Cynthia Nixon and
on the Republican side by Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.
Cuomo said this is “the most important election of my life and this
is a seminal moment because the choice that is posed in this election
cannot be more stark.” He said the “extreme conservative administration”
in Washington has taken over. “It is taking this nation in a direction
that none of us wants to go.”
The governor said Republicans in New York “drank the Cool Aide.”
The moderate Republicans of yesteryear have gone the way of “the
doe-doe bird; they are now all extreme conservatives,” he said.
The governor said the conservative Republicans are not willing to negotiate.
“It’s their way; their cultural view; their religious view;
their lifestyle view,” he said of the GOP leadership.
Cuomo said the election “is not just about people; it’s about
the soul of the country; it’s about character of the country; it’s
about the values of the country; and it’s a matter of survival of
the State of New York.”
