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Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg slams Andrew Cuomo's decisions to expand casino gambling, reject hydrofracking

ALBANY - Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday broke his silence on New York politics Wednesday —ripping Gov. Cuomo's decisions to expand casino gambling and reject hydrofracking.
Bloomberg, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, said banning fracking--a controversial form of natural gas drilling-- was “a misguided policy.”
With tight regulation, the economic and health benefits of natural gas outweigh potential health dangers, Bloomberg said. "To keep coal-fired power plants in upstate New York and not frack doesn't make any sense at all.”
Bloomberg--who had a frosty relationship with Cuomo--was even more acerbic about the governor’s successful push to begin state-sanctioned casino gambling upstate.
“Our strategy in New York State seems to be to open gambling casinos so we can rip the lungs out of the poor to subsidize upstate real-estate developers," he said. "That doesn't help anyone in the area. I would certainly frack."
Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi declined comment on the casino remark, but a Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman said the state’s review found “significant uncertainties” regarding fracking’s impact on health and the environment.
Bloomberg’s comments came on the day he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the British government in a ceremony at the British embassy in Washington.