Cuomo on what the Senate’s ‘failure’ will mean

Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY—Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday that the results of this legislative session have led him to conclude the state Senate's current governing coalition is a “failure,” but he stopped short of saying he will campaign for Democrats across the board.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five-member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

“It's no surprise that they weren't done, right, because those are fundamental political differences,” Cuomo said during an interview on “The Capitol Pressroom.”

“I said if they weren't done I would view it as a failure, and it would be a case that I would bring to the people of this state after this session as we enter the political season, and that is exactly what I'm going to do,” he said.

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