Andrew M. Cuomo, was standing alongside his mother, Matilda, and Hillary Clinton celebrating “the grand opening” of the eastbound span of a gleaming bridge bearing his father’s name. But that span never opened as planned on Saturday as engineers invoked a “potentially dangerous situation” involving the old Tappan Zee Bridge. Then, a second problem erupted for Mr. Cuomo on Saturday, when a flier landed in mailboxes of Jewish New Yorkers: a political mailer, paid for by the State Democratic Party that Mr. Cuomo funds, tying together a photograph of his opponent, Cynthia Nixon, and the loaded words “anti-Semitism.” The flier drew swift rebukes from fellow Democrats as Mr. Cuomo distanced himself from its content. On Sunday in Tarrytown, Marcus J. Molinaro, the Republican candidate for governor, questioned whether the bridge opening was rushed, citing the governor’s penchant for news headlines, and he called for an independent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. “The governor has a clear history and has made perfectly clear that at times optics and politics are more important than anything else,” he said.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2018 18:29 UTC