By Mark Scott
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Buffalo, NY – Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo will hit the ground running Saturday morning. Following a low-key inauguration ceremony, Cuomo plans to be at his desk to chart a course for New York's future.
University at Buffalo political scientist James Campbell says Andrew Cuomo's primary message is that the state's economy is still in trouble and that job one is fixing it.
Cuomo is expected to emphasize that in a brief ten-to-15 minute inaugural speech. The public inaugural will be a rather intimate affair with a guest list of about 175 family members and friends.
No state legislators are invited. Campbell says lawmakers will likely provide Cuomo with a brief honeymoon period but that the divisiveness so often seen in Albany is likely to return.
Even before he takes office, dozens of top jobs in Cuomo's incoming administration are being filled while the people who used to hold those positions under Governor Paterson are receiving their pink slips.