Cuomo (podium) gets approval from Kingston Mayor Steven Noble (center) and
UIster County Executive Michael Hein
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 Kool-Aid.” 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.”
