Why the Gov’s Done With Albany

Gov. Cuomo has thrown up his hands, declared “mission accomplished” and turned his back on Albany for the rest of year. Don’t be surprised if this leaves him time to visit Iowa and New Hampshire.

The governor says he’d rather spend his time “building things” than wrestling the Legislature to deliver, say, ethics reform — which he as recently as last November called a major priority.

In past years, Cuomo — like previous governors — and his aides have used the postbudget period to put together a package of remaining issues to push lawmakers on before they adjourn in June.

But this time ’round, there’s no need to send anything else to the Senate and Assembly. “Everything big we wanted to get done, we got done in the budget,” the governor declared over the weekend.

Well, OK, there’s ethics — but there, Cuomo insists, “you don’t have the political will to get it done,” so he’ll simply sit back and “respond to the initiatives that the Legislature comes up with.”

That’s not exactly leadership, but maybe Cuomo is feeling gun-shy after the pitched battles he had to fight to get the rest of his agenda.

Then again, if he were truly serious about ethics, maybe he’d put the issue above getting more billions for his “economic development” schemes. At the least, he wouldn’t be fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent any outside review of how that cash gets spent.

But if he’s not going to be in Albany, what will Cuomo do with his free time? Building things, after all, doesn’t mean the governor will be standing onsite in his hard hat personally directing construction.

Our guess is, this will leave him plenty of time to go around the country, touting his accomplishments to receptive national Democrats — and revving up his growing attacks on President Trump.

Maybe he should spend some time considering why polls show New Yorkers still don’t think he’d make a very good president.