The mounting public frustration is particularly acute among liberal and downstate Democrats aligned with Mr. de Blasio, in the party’s rising populist wing. The mayor’s remarks this week, accusing Mr. Cuomo of governing through vengeance and fear, are likely to further embolden Democrats who have long chafed at what they characterized as Mr. Cuomo’s ironhanded methods and imperious personality.
Their grievances are legion: The mayor faulted Mr. Cuomo on his handling of funds for public housing, and charged the governor with undermining his efforts to extend mayoral control of city schools. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, sharply criticized new ethics measures championed by the governor as deeply inadequate, and campaigned for his own set of more stringent proposals.
Others have fumed at Mr. Cuomo over the divided Legislature’s failure to raise the minimum wage or to pass a state-level version of the Dream Act, a bill granting tuition benefits to certain undocumented immigrants, as well as the governor’s support for an education tax credit meant to expand access to private schools.
