A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City marched on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan offices today to take on his tax policy.

The protesters borrowed the “Governor 1 Percent” moniker from the Albany incarnation of the movement, which is still camped out in the city’s Academy Park, and marched on the Capitol last week chanting the name.

Cuomo has earned the wrath of the protesters not only for his opposition to keeping a surcharge on those making $250,000 or more at the end of the year, but also his efforts to enforce a curfew on the Albany demonstration.

The governor would not give his thoughts today on the criticism of his handling of the protest from a former State Police attorney who called his efforts “repugnant and inexcusable.”

This also marks yet another time when protesters showed up to the governor’s office and he wasn’t home. Cuomo was in New York City during the Capitol demonstration. Today he’s back in Albany.

Update: A source with knowledge of the protest disputes the idea this flyer was distributed at all, noting that the demonstration was small and focused on hydrofracking, not the millionaires tax. Truth be told, it’s difficult to sort this all since I’m here in Albany.

Update X2: Andrew Hawkins, an editor at The Capitol and City Hall News emails this item:

“I was there, and can tell you that it attracted a little over 100 people, and that the focus was very much on the millionaire’s tax, not hydrofracking. There was only one sign that had anything to do with hydrofracking. Protesters were handing out those “Governor 1%” flyers, but just to each other and not to random people on the streets.”

A little more than 100 people would make the protest slightly larger than the one at the Capitol building last week.

GovOnePercentFlyer

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