Andrew Cuomo Isn't Doing Interviews
Also in this week's paper, I look how Andrew Cuomo is winning over critics in uncharacteristic fashion: by doing his job and not letting self-promotion get in the way.
"What we're seeing is a guy who sees the value of letting the work speak for itself, as opposed to engaging in gratuitous public relations," said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who spent the 2006 election cycle tauntingly referring to Cuomo as "Andy" on behalf of Mark Green.
Toughguy Republican consultant Rob Ryan put it this way: "Maybe the guy's better suited for the job than I thought."
-- Azi Paybarah
Cuomo has it exactly right. He's hired talented legal professionals to care only about enforcing the law while Cuomo himself keeps the AG office above politics. It is the proper way to run a law enforcement organization; if Alberto Gonzales had done the same thing he'd be able to keep his job.
It's not surprising to people who looked at his prior work.
The NY Press corps missed everything he did in DC. Fundamentally, he's the kind of guy who likes to do the nuts-and-bolts of government work. He's old-school. The path to success is in doing the job well.
Both comments are true, but there will come a time when he will have to talk to the press if he plans on moving up.
Cuomo is still an a-hole
I'm sorry, you don't think investigating schools spread across the whole nation (rather than ones he actually has jurisdiction over), libeling an entire profession without offering any specific evidence, and issuing press releases saying he found what he was looking for, but he's just not ready to say what it is yet, is not "gratuitous public relations."