…Be nice. Be respectful. Be humble. Be honest.
Stop blaming the other guy and “politics.”
Then lay out some firm policy positions, and detail specifically what he’ll do to see them through.
He should admit the mistakes he made as governor.
When he met with The Post’s editorial board in March, he claimed he was helpless to stop the Legislature’s uber-lefties, who (per Cuomo) rammed through disastrous legislation, like bail reform, the climate lunacy, congestion pricing, the war on landlords, all against his will.
In reality, he himself called for bail reform in his 2018 State of the State address, and offered his own bill to raise the age to try perps as adults.
If he wants to claim his aim was to see reform done right, he owes the voters some account of how that gambit went wrong — which starts with an admission that it did.
Then give the voters some sense of how he’ll deal with the fallout when he’ll seemingly have less leverage against state lawmakers as mayor than he did as gov, and face a City Council that’s at least as far left as the Legislature.
He actually can brag about some past successes: He stood up heroically for the city’s charter schools when then-new Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to gut them, for example, got a solid statewide property tax limit law passed — and upended Albany business-as-usual to erase huge budget gaps when he took over as gov.
He was at his best, that is, when he rejected lefty shibboleths and the “More government is always the answer” crowd — and at his worst when he tried to “cleverly” outmaneuver the opposition….
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At heart, Andrew Cuomo really is a common-sense Italian kid from Queens — but he needs to open that heart, and triple down on the common sense, rather than play the cold technocrat who just knows better than the new kid.Stop trying to play it safe and show bread-and-butter New Yorkers you’re still one of them, and determined to give them a City Hall that runs for them the way they know it should….
image….A new and improved Andrew Cuomo, one truly committed to standing up to the wacky left, might have a chance, writes The Post Editorial Board.