Gov. Andrew Cuomo is playing the hero after he saved 7-year-old Brendan Mulvaney’s lemonade stand — from his own Department of Health.
Over the weekend, DOH officials shuttered Mulvaney’s stand, eventually ordering him to pay $30 for a permit to sell powder-mix lemonade off his family’s back porch — because vendors at the nearby Saratoga County Fair were whining that his 75-cent drinks competed with their $7 charge.Cuomo took action after The Post put this bureaucratic overreach on Page One. First, he called the move “ridiculous,” then promised a swift investigation, even offering to pay for Mulvaney’s permit out of his own pocket if the DOH wouldn’t budge.
As if any state agency would dare defy this governor. In fact, the DOH quickly backed off, agreeing that kids don’t need permits to sell lemonade.
No word yet on whether any DOH official has suffered even a tongue-lashing for the idiotic initial ruling. And let’s all cross our fingers and hope Cuomo doesn’t decide that Brendan should get a few million in Andy Land “economic-development” cash to build a massive “job-creating” drinks operation.