cuomo will take personal responsibility for the project state approval and cuomo has reportedly had several conversations with amazon executives including ceo jeff bezos since the deal fell apart, so far amazon has shown no signs that it s willing to reconsider. neil? neil: thank you, tracy. let s get the read right now for joe borelli, republican new york city councilman. they re trying pulling out all of the stops. he s trying and he s right to try. we shouldn t give up on the prospect of 25,000 not just jobs but we re talking real careers for real new yorkers. the problem the governor faces is that new york in and of itself is the reason why amazon s not coming. amazon itself isn t the problem just the result of the problem. we can t be a high tax, high regulatory state and expect companies that don t necessarily need to be here, to come here at their own will, and this type of neil: a lot of the critics of this didn t understand how business deals are made like amazon was gett
unions yesterday in governor cuomo s open letter, you had the building trade supporting it they were going to build construction with union jobs and the tech industry is not known for unionizing its tech employee s this is not an industry where the employees want to be. neil: and change the way other businesses who might want to look at setting up shop here. i think not so now. this type of diplomacy where we can basically hang sticks and carrots in front of businesses at the threat of some obscure political board just eliminating their deal, this is not an environment where businesses will want to come and if this continues the way it is if governor cuomo continues running the state the way he does we can expect more businesses to pull out. neil: well god bless him he did try to get them here and he s trying again but again to your point it s an up hill battle joe borelli, thank you very very much we should say new york also lost better than $2 billion in revenue prior to this getti