By Dana Rubinstein and Jimmy Vielkind
Dressed in pale dress trousers
and work boots, Gov. Andrew Cuomo grasped an industrial vacuum known as
a Vac-Tron and sucked up a pile of litter from the subway tracks in
Union Square last week.
The event was ostensibly about cleaning up garbage and reducing track
fires, but it was also about tidying up the governor’s carefully
crafted image as the kind of executive who can make the trains run on
time.
In New York City, where the subways have suffered a meltdown over
the past six months, Cuomo’s name has instead become synonymous with the
system’s neglect. In polls, riders have blamed him for the
deteriorating service, and a Twitter hashtag #CuomosMTA has catalogued
the system’s problems throughout the summer. “Tired of New York’s subways? Blame Andrew Cuomo” read one New York Times op-ed.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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