“To keep coal-fired power plants in upstate New York and not frack doesn’t make any sense at all. . . 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. . . That doesn’t help anyone in the area. I would certainly frack.”

— Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a Wall Street Journal interview, on Gov. Cuomo’s decisions to ban fracking and instead rely on casinos to boost Upstate