Cuomo May Face New York Worker Pay Fight After Legislative Wins
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Minutes after the New York Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage just before midnight June 24, Governor Andrew Cuomo turned to an ally on the floor and said, “We got it all done.”
In his first six months, the 53-year old Democrat led the divided Legislature to produce the state’s first on-time budget in five years, a property-tax cap, an ethics law for public officials and the marriage-equality bill. Gerald Benjamin, a professor at the State University of New York-New Paltz, said Cuomo’s “extraordinary success” is unmatched since Democrat Hugh Carey helped New York City avert bankruptcy in the 1970s.