Via Instapundit, I’m getting the impression that Andrew Cuomo is apparently very good at turning small PR problems into bigger PR problems. Short version: guy in the state government (Mike Fayette) talks to the press (the Adirondack Daily Enterprise) when he apparently wasn’t supposed to. Fayette gets in trouble for it. Rather than get fired, he retires. So far, so… whatever, man. Only the Daily Enterprise on Wednesday published a story on the subject of Fayette’s forced retirement. And that’s when this story gets a little eyebrow-raising:
On Thursday, livid that an engineer in the Adirondacks was being portrayed as a victim of Mr. Cuomo’s penchant for control, a top aide to the governor, Howard B. Glaser, took to the airwaves. He read aloud Mr. Fayette’s disciplinary history, describing him as a troubled employee who had previously been penalized for having an improper relationship with a subordinate, misusing his work e-mail to send sexually explicit messages and using his state-assigned vehicle for personal errands.
I should note here that the Daily Enterprise has a circulation of 5,300; the New York Times claims one of 1.59 million daily. I should also note that the Daily Enterprise had mentioned Fayette’s past disciplinary problems as well, so this was not exactly new information. So I can only conclude that Howard Glaser apparently wanted the word to go out that Governor Cuomo is an incredibly thin-skinned politician who hates it when he doesn’t have absolute control over everything said about either him and/or his administration, and that Cuomo will lash out at anybody who dares cross him on that. Whether or not it actually gets the New York Times, of all things, to write even more unfavorable media pieces about him.
So noted – but, believe me: there are so many other things that we can and will talk about on a national level when it comes to Andrew Cuomo, should we have to. Starting with the magic words ‘adultery,’ ‘live-in girlfriend,’ and ‘Roman Catholic Church’…
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Damn you Moe. I wanted to tweet your Obama Is Starscream post, but then you write a better one.
Umm.. are you restricted to one tweet per day, for some reason?
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Mew
No. I just tend to not tweet from the same source often. It seems like a silly rule, but it’s a personal rule.
North Korea and it’s use of missile strikes against insubordinates comes to mind. The Wile E. Coyote version.
“Are you IN, Genius? INcapable? INcompetent?”
Gee, I didn’t know that a state employee’s disciplinary record was open to the public in New York. Reminds me of the time I learned that Joe the Plumber’s solicited political opinion was worthless because he wasn’t a real plumber.