Cuomo could back up public statements of support for automated speed enforcement by pressuring John Flanagan and the State Senate to reauthorize cameras. Instead he's allowed senators to use Simcha Felder's cartoon villainy as an excuse to let the program come dangerously close to extinction.
The governor's support could break through the inertia in the State Senate, where speed camera expansion has enough votes to pass but is stalled in committee by Brooklyn's Simcha Felder.