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Message to New Yorkers: If the Governor Kicks You Out, You’re Welcome in Oklahoma
kresta in the afternoon ^ | January 26, 2014 | Al Kresta

Posted on 01/26/2014 3:12:41 PM PST by NYer

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a now-famous rant, put out the "Not Welcome" mat in front of Empire State pro-lifers.  If you're conservative, he said, you're not welcome in his state.  NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio sided with him "100%".

Oklahoma State Representative Rebecca Hamilton, who has served in the Oklahoma House for 18 years, has published a response to the governor's inflammatory remarks on her blog, Public Catholic, which can be found on the Catholic Portal at Patheos.  

Rep. Hamilton first gratefully acknowledges the statement from Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, who publicly responded to the governor's over-the-top political posturing.  Then, she slices the governor and the mayor with her rhetoric.

Rep. Hamilton's well-reasoned perspective is worth reading.  Here is an excerpt:

Rep. Hamilton
I’ve held off writing about this because it is so over the top in terms of acceptable behavior from an elected official that I decided to give it a bit of time to jell. I wanted to allow Governor Cuomo a chance to issue a press release saying, I was suffering from gastroenteritis/drunk/grief-stricken-because-my-dog-had-died at the time and said things that in no way represent what I truly think. Nothing that carries the flat-out I-did-not-mean-it apology which I think is required for such outrageous comments from an elected official has ensued. 

It appears that not just the Governor, but the mayor of New York (or, as we call it where I’m from, New York City) are standing pat. They may not agree on much else, but they agree “100%” that people who think differently from them on a whole range of issues are not welcome in New York. 

This isn’t about pro life vs pro abortion. It’s not about gun control vs the Second Amendment. It’s also not about gay vs traditional marriage. It’s about two elected officials who, from all evidence, have totally lost their sense of what elective office means. Both the Governor and the attaboy mayor following in his footsteps have taken on attitudes and ideas that are antithetical to what public service in the form of elective office entails. 

When you’re elected to office, you represent everyone in the area that elected you. That means, Mr Governor and Mr Mayor, even those who oppose gun control, gay marriage and abortion. You are their governor and their mayor just the same as you are the mayor or governor for your pals and cronies who blow smoke up your skirts and tell you what a “statesman” you are for kicking everyone else to the curb. 

It doesn’t matter if you agree with your constituents. It doesn’t matter if they agree with you. It certainly doesn’t matter if they like you or not. They can call you names and drive you nuts with weird accusations and oddball demands all they want. The office you occupy belongs to them. Not you. 

Governor Cuomo occupies the office of Governor of New York. But the office belongs to the people of New York.  

By the people of New York, I mean all of them, including those that the Governor and his mayoral echo say “don’t belong” in their fair state and city.

It's an excellent analysis.  Read the rest here.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; bishoprichardmalone; buffalo; chirlanemccray; cuomo; newyork; newyorkcity; ny; ok; oklahoma; rebeccahamilton
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1 posted on 01/26/2014 3:12:41 PM PST by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...
Several states have rolled out the welcome mats to New Yorkers, including TX and LA.

Jindal: New Yorkers should move to La. if they don't like Gov. Cuomo

Imagine the impact on NYS if all pro life New Yorkers could pack up their bags and leave. Cuomo would be singing a very different tune.

2 posted on 01/26/2014 3:15:11 PM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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To: NYer

Or Texas...

3 posted on 01/26/2014 3:17:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: NYer

Red states again begging people from blue states to come to red states....Very odd.


4 posted on 01/26/2014 3:23:53 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: NYer

Yes Cuomo but you and your leftist hacks in NY state certainly welcome our tax revenues while you extort our ‘conservative’ taxes in your putrid state. $15 a hit to cross the bridges and tunnels in and out—potholes included.
You immoral, corrupted fraud living large on Daddy’s name.
This ex NYer is pizzed at what you leftists did to NY. Pox on you tasbard Cuomo—and de Blahzio too.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 3:25:14 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: NYer

New Yorkers welcome? Um.... be careful what you ask for...


6 posted on 01/26/2014 3:30:33 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

when they flee their own socialist pig pens, they often bring in their politics and voting habits and elect idiots who will do to their new host state, what they did to their old state....


7 posted on 01/26/2014 3:35:01 PM PST by pastorbillrandles (The choice isn't heaven or Hell. its heaven or the world)
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To: NYer

I never thought it possible for anyone to be dumber than Mario Cuomo, yet his dumbass son has managed to make his father look intelligent.

Another dumb dago in an expensive suit.


8 posted on 01/26/2014 3:35:21 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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9 posted on 01/26/2014 3:35:52 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: RedMDer

Didn’t Hitler say that to the Jews in Germany?


10 posted on 01/26/2014 3:38:29 PM PST by scooby321
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To: NYer
Now, Texans and Oklahomans will be arguing:

"OUR NEW YORKERS ARE BETTER THAN YOUR NEW YORKERS!!!"

11 posted on 01/26/2014 3:40:03 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: NYer; neverdem; The Mayor; Behind Liberal Lines

NY ping.

My kids are already abandoning the state for greener pastures.

Soon as is feasible, we’re outta here.

Mr. Governor and Mr. Mayor, you are losing yet another law abiding, tax paying citizen.

Your loss, not mine.


12 posted on 01/26/2014 3:44:38 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Hatteras
New Yorkers welcome? Um.... be careful what you ask for...

Hemorrhoids, they be Hemorrhoids
The ones that come down and go back up
Are not so bad...

Spoken as one born, and raised in NJ
But escaped to the deep South half a century ago

13 posted on 01/26/2014 3:44:40 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: dragnet2
Red states again begging people from blue states to come to red states....Very odd.

Not so odd. Some people realize that not everyone who lives in a blue state is liberal.

Perhaps you need to get out more.

14 posted on 01/26/2014 3:45:44 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom

“Not so odd. Some people realize that not everyone who lives in a blue state is liberal.

Perhaps you need to get out more.”

Exactly. Let us not forget that Free Republic is headquartered in California.


15 posted on 01/26/2014 3:49:29 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Imagine that.....


16 posted on 01/26/2014 4:00:40 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: NYer

Question OK and Texas freepers

You want rude New Yorkers coming to your state LOL!


17 posted on 01/26/2014 4:05:23 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine

They’d hate it here, it’s hot, I can’t wait to leave Texas myself.....nudge...nudge....wink...wink.


18 posted on 01/26/2014 4:06:39 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Just sayin

Texans do you really want go there LOL!


19 posted on 01/26/2014 4:07:41 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: NYer

Andrew Cuomo and Bill DeBlasio are behaving tyrannically. It is morally okay to “do” tyrants.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 4:11:11 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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