Gov. Cuomo‘s hand-picked Democratic Party director, Rodney Capel, is ridiculously accusing the state GOP’s buttoned-down chairman, Ed Cox, of selling out to “the most extreme elements of the national Tea Party Republicans.”
His pretext for this overheated attack? Cox gave a speech in Buffalo touting the benefits of fracking for natural gas upstate — and justly chastised Cuomo for blocking an industry that would bring thousands of well-paying jobs.
Never mind that no less of a true-blue Democrat than President Obama supports fracking.
Never mind that the economic justification for expanding casino gambling upstate, a Cuomo cause, applies many times over to fracking.
Never mind that well-regulated drilling would be a huge boon to the environment — since clean-burning gas generates half as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as coal.
When he took office, Cuomo promised a decision on green-lighting fracking that would be based on science, not politics.
Obviously, Capel did not get the memo.
![In a narrow vote this week, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule that will ban the vast majority of noncompete clauses by U.S. employers, which have long prevented workers from switching jobs or setting out on their own. In doing so, the agency did its duty to protect American economic dynamism and opportunity, nothing less, nothing more. We hope that’s the clear conclusion of the courts that will now rule on a lawsuit being brought by the Chamber of Commerce, which has strenuously supported this anticompetitive practice. Of the arguments that the business group and other opponents have rolled […]](https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1820955015.jpg?w=490 "In a narrow vote this week, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule that will ban the vast majority of noncompete clauses by U.S. employers, which have long prevented workers from switching jobs or setting out on their own. In doing so, the agency did its duty to protect American economic dynamism and opportunity, nothing less, nothing more. We hope that’s the clear conclusion of the courts that will now rule on a lawsuit being brought by the Chamber of Commerce, which has strenuously supported this anticompetitive practice. Of the arguments that the business group and other opponents have rolled […]")
