Andrew Cuomo's Job Approval Hits Record Low: 37% Approve, 59% Disapprove

Just out from Marist:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating dropped to its lowest mark since he took office in 2011, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.

Released on Monday, the poll shows that 37% of New York voters consider Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, to be doing a good or excellent job, down from 44% in October.

According to the new poll, Mr. Cuomo’s lower approval rating is partly because of voter concerns about corruption in the state’s government.

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More than half of those polled, 52%, said they have a favorable opinion of the governor. That too, however, marked a decline from his 54% favorability rating last October, which is within the poll’s margin of error.

Respondents who said they had an unfavorable opinion of Mr. Cuomo rose to 43%, compared with 36% in October, his highest unfavorable rating in a Marist poll since taking office.

Okay, two things of importance here.

First, the trend in the job approval numbers is downward since 2012.

See here:

Those trend lines for job approval don't lie.

Second point - favorability rating.

Cuomo remains over 50% in favorability, but again, the trend is unmistakeable - his favorability rating is declining over time and his unfavorability rating is rising.

If the trend continues, he will eventually fall below water on favorability too.

This is governor who governs as if he still has favorability ratings in the 80's and job approval ratings in the 60's, but the truth is, he's not a very popular governor and he gets less and less popular in both job approval and favorability as time goes on.

37% job approval - looks like New Yorkers have come in with their own APPR rating for Governor Cuomo - highly "ineffective."

Teacher Made To Remove "Respect Public Education" Button Before Meeting Governor Andrew Cuomo

The NY Post reports that a teacher wearing a "Respect Public Education" button was told he must remove the offending item before meeting Governor Cuomo at his New Years' Eve Executive Mansion Open House event:

East Greenbush English teacher Sean Crall said he was shocked last week when he was asked to remove the button — which says, “Respect Public Education, It Works” — from his lapel before he and his family could meet Cuomo during an open house at the mansion. The button also said “NYSUT,” for New York State United Teachers.

“I was stunned that the concept of respecting public education would be offensive to the governor,” said Crall, a union leader in his upstate school district. “I was with my family. I didn’t want to create a scene, so I complied.”

The powerful union, at odds with Cuomo over teacher evaluations, was protesting outside the mansion before the open house. Crall said he attended the demonstration before attending the open house, but that he wears the button all the time.

Crall said he was planning to keep the ordeal to himself until Cuomo started calling the mansion “the people’s house.”

A Cuomo spokesman declined to comment.

Governor Cuomo has a very delicate sensibility and he must never be confronted with anything that might smack of criticism or opposition.

How dare this teacher wear a button that says "Respect Public Education, It Works" when Cuomo knows in his heart it is a monopoly that must be broken?

If the Executive Mansion were truly "the people's house" and Governor Cuomo truly a servant of the people, Sean Crall could have worn his button without incident.

But Governor Cuomo sees himself as king and the Executive Mansion is his palace, and so there must be no criticism of or opposition to Cuomo within earshot or eyeshot of the king.

Andrew Cuomo's New York - do what the governor wants or else.

A Birthday Gift For Andrew Cuomo From His Future Great Granddaughter

Matilda Sandra Lee Cuomo reflects on her great granddad's legacy, as a politician and great grandfather, on the occasion of his 57th birthday.  Matilda Sandra Lee Cuomo will be born in the year 2064 and currently resides in the ether of the universe.

On Dec. 6, my entire future family celebrated my future great granddad's 57th birthday together.  While I, alas, could not join them at the celebration, since I have not been born yet and won't actually exist until 2064, I was fortunate to celebrate my future great granddad's legacy here in the ether of the universe where all matter exists before it actually exists.

The admiration that the not-yet-born have for my future great gandfather, Andrew Cuomo, is so profound that it cannot be overstated. Just the other day as we were having our traditional Sunday sausage and meatballs with pasta dinner, many of my fellow yet unborns expressed their wonder at how Governor Cuomo (D) could have won re-election by an extraordinary 13 percentage points when so many other Democrats across the country went down to defeat this year.  I chalked up his historic victory to his common sense approach to governing that saw him champion legislation that included provisions to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons and potentially dangerous mental health patients, and ban high capacity magazines and assault weapons, yet still respect the first amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and law enforcement officers.  In addition, I said that my future great grandfather's promoting marriage equality for LGBT people both born and unborn shows the great humanity that exists in this man.  All of this comes on top of all the on-time budgets he has gotten the past four years after years and years of gridlock and paralysis in Albany. He truly is one of the greatest visionaries of both his time and any time and the voters of New York State have clearly demonstrated they know this by giving this Dem an historic victory in a year when most Democrats lost their elections.

But my future great granddad isn't just the most effective and best governor the State of New York has ever seen - he's also the best future great grandfather any unborn could ever have. Somehow he manages to handle each natural disaster that befalls New York, from seven feet of lake effect snow falling on Buffalo to flooding from the superstorms and hurricanes that come from a Global Warming my great granddad is wise enough to know is not human-caused, yet still deal with all the dramas his family members, both born and unborn, contend with.  His guardian angel, Clarence Percoco, says only an extraordinary man, a governor of historic gifts, could handle all of these challenges, while still remaining true to himself and his guiding principles.  Clarence Percoco also says if anybody doesn't believe that, he'll come around to have a discussion with said unbeliever and make sure they undergo a change of opinion.

In any case, I wanted to take this opportunity, 50 years before I'm actually born, to express my admiration and love for the man who is not only the best governor that New York State has ever had, he's also the best husband, father, uncle, future granddad and future great granddad that any family could have.  Happy birthday, great grandfather, and may you have many more so that both the Cuomo/Lee Family and the Family of New York can enjoy your wisdom, leadership and guidance for decades to come!