Upstate New York Landowner Shale Gas Activist
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Vic Furman reacts to Governor Cuomo’s “America was never that great” comment and explains how Andy has systematically destroyed hope for Upstate New York.
“As for making America great, America was never that great!”
So says the great divider who serves as our New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo; the man-child raised with a silver spoon in his mouth and a ticket to political office in his rear pocket.
You have to live in Upstate New York to fully appreciate the nastiness of Cuomo’s statement. You have to be a struggling farmer, a land owner or a home owner to truly take in the full breadth of Cuomo’s latest insult to Upstate citizens.
This is the same man who previously said there was no place in New York for those with pro-life or other moral positions contrary to his own. He’s is out to destroy the state and is well on his way to doing it. He is not a real governor by any definition of the word. No, he’s a profiteer, a tyrant and a hard core socialist.
Governor Cuomo also plays with the lives of his constituents and picks winners and losers based on what appear to be kickbacks and political donations. He has advanced only himself and done so on the backs of those he has blinded with vague promises of equality and opportunity while passing out favors to big-time real estate developers. He has destroyed all future economic hope for Upstate New York, leaving a multitude of scenes such as this:
How has Governor Cuomo destroyed that economic hope?
Lets jump right to it. When he was elected Governor of NY in 2010, Upstate New Yorkers were already waiting for a decision on gas drilling due to the lack of one from the Patterson administration. Governor Cuomo stated “we must wait for the science” effectively admitting his biggest fear was not being reelected if he really did go by the science. Disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, he delayed his decision until after the end of his first term.
It was delay, delay, and more delay. With every delay there seemed to be an administration policy change. For a time he even suggested there was a path to allowing drilling on our land, although it was later to be obstructed by one of Cuomo’s “yes men.” I’m talking about a DEC Commissioner taken from a well funded environmental group associated with the NRDC who would later resign after an extended moratorium was put in place. in case you forgot, it was Joe Martens who, in 2011, stated his newfound support for High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF) by stating “we believe HVHF can be undertaken safely, along with strong and aggressive oversight.” (Later, of course, he changed his tune at the direction of his NRDC masters and bossman Cuomo).
Drilling was safely and successfully taking place in dozens of other states and Cuomo had what he needed from Martens to proceed but he was under pressure from the NRDC and his own former brother-in-law Robert Kennedy Jr. (a man whose personal problems should have left him out of New York politics but I won’t go there). Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Mark Ruffalo and other Hollywood actors, who were very likely important to his political aspirations piled on.
We all know what happened as Cuomo was guided by the fear of ruining his Presidential ambitions and deciding fracking was the issue on which to build support by appealing to the radical left. State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah resigned, just days before his report on HVHF was to be released and many people thought it would be a drilling favorable report. There were numerous excuses offered, but none were convincing. It was obvious, to those of us watching closely at least, that Shah knew he was a being abused and misused by his boss on the fracking issue and decided he’d had enough.
His replacement, Dr. Howard Zucker had no such qualms. He was happy to be Cuomo’s puppet and fall guy. Who can forget his infamous speech about his imaginary children and how he feared for them? It was a disgusting Cuomo orchestrated event with Martens reversing course, Zucker spinning yarns and Cuomo pretending he was just listening to them when, in fact, he was the one calling all the shots. Few greater lies have been told.
Andrew Cuomo let down hundreds of thousands of upstate landowners and farmers, job seekers, factories and small businesses, as he and his puppets shut down drilling in our dying upstate because he was told it would be good for him politically. He continues with a war on fossil fuels and pipelines to this day, probably as he sips cognac with Elon Musk and passes out favors at taxpayer expense.
What trips my trigger and that of half a nation at the very least, is that this tyrant stood at a women’s convention in New York and had the nerve to state “America was never that great.” These women could have been mothers, sisters, aunts and grandmothers of men who died in defense of this nation, lost limbs and vision.
He has also antagonized and degraded those who don’t share his values, engaged in blatant corruption and shamelessly exploited crises such as the one in Puerto Rico after the hurricane. I firmly believe his actions on the last score were to get the votes of Puerto Ricans in the state for a third term and for a presidential run, not really caring at all about their plight. As a veteran of two conflicts, I am appalled that our governor would sink so low as to degrade this great country, but it doesn’t surprise me.
We need to get the vote out and return this horrible man to the private sector, perhaps selling Russian gas to the Northeast since that’s where his sympathies seek to be.
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