It wasn't a Dem thing, it was a progressive thing. Cuomo, DeBlasio, et al are Dems. They clamored and campaigned for it. It was the new Progs who killed it. AMZ didn't stick it to NYC/NYS so much as the new Progs actively killed it (Read what Cuomo has said).
VZ: Author claims it was poor. It was rich prior to Chavez, regardless if he and the state were true Communists or fakers loved by Bernie.
According to this polling[1], there was strong support across the board in NYC, and Queens in particular for HQ2.
[1]https://harrisx.com/2019/02/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-supp...
Queens and Long Island did not need Amazon HQ2 in the neighborhood that Amazon wanted to put HQ2. It would have ruined traffic and driven up housing prices for the 99% of residents who wouldn't work at Amazon, and the tax credits would have resulted in a net tax loss because the tax credits would have far exceeded the expected tax revenue from the net jobs Amazon would have created in that neighborhood (compared to the jobs that would have been created if Amazon did not move there).
VZ was the richest country in the South American continent --not the "poor" country, at the time they claim
This was the result of cronyism and vote-buying political programs. Like what the Trump administration is trying to doing right now...Communism and socialism had very little to do with it; after all, most Scandinavian nations have extremely socialist policies, and China, Cuba, and Vietnam have been doing fine and even thriving despite being Communist nations.