Andrew Cuomo’s shadow campaign for governor moved decisively into the open today when the New York Post’s Fred Dicker ran on-the-record quotes from the attorney general’s spokesman, Richard Bamberger, criticizing the “state” as inefficient, fiscally undisciplined and procedurally opaque.
In the article, headlined “Budget Bashing,” Bamberger said, “The attorney general believes the state must do a better job of reducing government spending and increasing efficiencies in order to avoid tax hikes” and “The AG also believes our government needs to be more transparent in its budget processes.”
Among Albany-watchers, there was little doubt about where the criticism was aimed.
“It is critical of the governor,” said Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
