“It looks like he’s running for president. He said he wasn’t going to raise taxes, and then he did, which probably helps you in a Democratic primary by saying, ‘See? I can lie to voters, vote for me!’ But I don’t know that it helps nationally.”
— Grover Norquist, quoted by the Albany Times Union, on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
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