The Brian Lehrer Show

Ahead of New York's primary election on Thursday, Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY), a Crain's New York Business columnist and the author ofModern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2012), talks about the promises Gov. Cuomo made when he was first elected, which ones he kept, and which promises fell by the wayside. Plus, freelance journalist Jake Shore talks about his reporting on last-minute fundraising for ex-IDC members.

Could Cuomo not have known about the mailer?@GregDavidonNY: I don't think so. "The idea that this micromanager doesn't know about things going on in the campaign is hard to believe."

Cuomo and Nixon are currently separated by around 40 points. Their respective running mates for LG, Hochul and Williams for are about tied. What gives?@GregDavidonNY attributes to name recognition, bc Hochul's term been mostly behind-the-scenes: "It's all Cuomo all the time."