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It’s Cuomo or catastrophe for New York

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I don’t know many people who have said or written nastier things about Andrew Cuomo than I have. Yet if I still lived in the city, I’d vote for him next month in a heartbeat. Doing otherwise would be grossly irresponsible for someone who’s called the Big Apple home most of his life.

I served as spokesman to two Republican gubernatorial challengers to Cuomo. I can’t count the number of causes and clients I’ve worked with who locked horns with the former governor. My p.r. firm successfully sued Cuomo’s infamous “J-Joke” ethics board on First Amendment grounds.

I even ran the largest GOP club in Manhattan and spent a week in the mid-1980s in the bowels of the Republican National Committee chasing down unsubstantiated mob rumors about Andrew’s mother’s family. Suffice to say, I am no Cuomophile.

And yet there is no choice. It’s Cuomo or Catastrophe. This mayoral race is binary, not trinary. Voters need to get........

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