NY: Andrew Giuliani Would Make A Terrible Governor

 Andrew Giuliani is running for governor of New York. In fact, he is reportedly doing pretty well, considering his less-than-stellar start.

Yes, he's the son of that other Giuliani, and yes, he has a whole bunch of bad ideas.

In response to the shooting in Buffalo, he says he wants the death penalty (which is not much help for the victims who have already been murdered). He's disgusted that New Yorkers "celebrated": the legalization of late term abortions (though he can't really tell you who was celebrating that or when or where) and he is disgusted, as a father, by the idea of abortions at 39 weeks (which is not actually a thing). 

When it comes to education, he also shines. 

Giuliani promises the "highest tax cut and budget cut in the history of our state" and when asked what he'll cut to fund that, he targets education. Giuliani apparently believes the notion that public schools are just a scam run by the teachers' union. From an interview with Capitol Tonight

“I think immediately we have to go and we have to look at the teachers’ union. And we have to look that it’s over $31 billion and I understand a lot of that comes from property taxes as well,” he said.

When Capital Tonight pointed out that $31 billion is the entire education budget for the state of New York, Giuliani said that education and the teachers’ union are “one and the same."

“I’m a big believer in bringing the free market into education,” he said. “I don’t think the teachers’ union should decide, exclusively, what our child’s education should be.”

He promises to raise the charter cap from 460 to over 1,000, and he wants a "tax voucher program," which I guess is some sort combination of tax credit scholarships and vouchers and maybe education savings accounts too and I think we can safely say that he just wants to hand over money to folks "so that way parents can take those tax dollars and take them to a private school, a parochial school, a Yeshiva, or a home school."

This is where we are, I guess-- someone can be anti-public education while only having a general rough idea of what the heck he is talking about. Good luck, New Yorkers.