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TexasTowelie

(117,551 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 04:23 AM Dec 2016

Its a pissing match: Cuomo defies de Blasio again

Gov. Cuomo is sending in reinforcements in his war with Mayor de Blasio, planning to double the number of state troopers in the Big Apple, sources told The Post.

And the governor isn’t stopping at additional manpower to make his presence known, he’s also having the state’s local bridge-and-tunnel enforcement vehicles painted in its signature in the troopers’ yellow-and-blue to make his presence more widely felt.

As always, “it’s a pissing match,” a law-enforcement source said.

Some of the extra state troopers are currently patrolling the Staten Island Expressway, after local Assemblyman Michael Cusick griped to Cuomo that city cops and firefighters were illegally using its HOV lanes, a source said.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/12/19/its-a-pissing-match-cuomo-defies-de-blasio-again/

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