Cuomo Not Apologizing For Obnoxious anti-Conservative Comments (Video)

Andrew Cuomo set off a “right-wing firestorm” (not media firestorm – the MSM agree with him), last week, when he characterized  right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon (read: pro-2nd Amendment), anti-gay (read anti-gay marriage) candidates as “extreme conservatives” who are not welcome in New York, because “that’s not who New Yorkers are.” What obnoxious presumption! What must it be like to be a conservative living in New York under one party rule – forced to listen to this extreme, gun-grabbing, liberal fascist governor (and now the Communist Mayor of NYC, too)  speak for you in such terms.

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Can you imagine the media firestorm (not just the left- the entire MSM) that would erupt if a Republican governor or mayor made comparable comments about the left? “Who are they?Are they these extreme liberals who are pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro gay marriage?  Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme liberals, they have no place in the state of Texas, because that’s not who Texans are.” We’d never hear the end of it. There would be blood in the streets.

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Every conservative in New York should move out of the state. “Escape from NY” as it were. And the state should not be a destination for any conservative to go on vacation until Andrew Cuomo, the “Architect of Ruin” is gone.

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NY State Republican chairman Ed Cox has called on Cuomo to apologize, but of course he’s doing nothing of the sort.

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On Sunday, the Cuomo administration lashed out at the New York Post and its Albany bureau chief, Fred Dicker—a one-time Cuomo supporter who now stands accused of being an “extreme conservative” for reporting Cuomo’s claims.

In an open letter posted to the governor’s website, Mylan Denerstein, counsel to the governor said, “As we approach the political season we expect the campaign dialogue to become more heated on both sides. We understand the New York Post is an opinionated newspaper and that Fred Dicker is an extreme conservative. However responsibility must not be forsaken. Dicker’s story that the Governor said Conservatives have no place in New York is unfair, false and the exact opposite of what his tenure as Attorney General and his state administration has been all about.”

She added, “The Governor was making the point that he makes often: New York is a politically moderate state and an extremist agenda is not politically viable statewide. New York has a long history of electing Democrats and Republicans statewide who are moderate rather than on the extreme ends of the political spectrum. That is an inarguable fact.”

Also an inarguable fact: Conservatives are not welcome in New York:  Cuomo Really is Targeting Conservatives in NY:

Via Fox News:

Conservative activist James O’Keefe is accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration of targeting his group with document requests and a subpoena, claiming the Democratic governor’s recent comments critical of conservatives “aren’t simply words.”

O’Keefe, whose Project Veritas is behind a series of hidden-camera investigations against left-leaning groups and causes, made the claims on the heels of the controversy over a recent Cuomo interview. In it, Cuomo blasted “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” and said they “have no place” in New York. He later walked back his remarks, and said they were being taken out of context in the media.

But O’Keefe claimed that Cuomo’s government is acting on those words, revealing that the Department of Labor has hit his office in Westchester County, N.Y., with demands for financial documents for months. He compared it to IRS targeting of conservative groups nationwide.

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Andrew Stiles, NRO: Cuomo, Still the Prince of Darkness New York’s governor has a long history of nasty behavior toward opponents.