This Week in Politics: Cuomo's Veto Pen

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address and executive budget proposal at the Hart Theatre, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in Albany, N.Y.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has spent the final weeks of 2019 catching up on the remainder of the 935 bills passed by the state legislature this year. And he's vetoed several contentious pieces of legislation, including a measure permitting the use of electric scooters and bicycles, one that would create a state office of utility consumer advocate and two measures related to prescription drug insurance policies and prices.

Karen DeWitt is the Capitol Bureau Correspondent for New York State Public Radio. She told WNYC's David Furst that many of Cuomo's vetoes fall into the category of "I can do it better myself."

"There's a little bit of a rivalry between the Governor and the newly-Democratic state legislature," said DeWitt. "When it was a divided government with the Republicans controlling the Senate, then the Governor held all the cards, all the power."