ALBANY, N.Y. – It’s safe to say New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can’t count American Federation of Teachers president Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten as a fan.

Weingarten – the former president of the New York City teachers union United Federation of Teachers – took to Twitter to slam Cuomo, echoing sentiments published in a Politico story.

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Her tweet could be part-payback for Cuomo’s support for relatively meager school reforms, or part-presidential path clearing for long-time Weingarten ally Hillary Clinton.

Regardless, Weingarten’s echo of a scathing personal attack on the governor is nothing less than eyebrow-raising.

The Politico piece labels Cuomo a “coulda been” presidential contender.

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It reviews how Cuomo could be posturing for a president run:

“Every presidential election is a reaction to the style of the guy in the Oval Office,” suggested one of Andrew’s advisers. “If you have gridlock Obama, then the person who will replace him, Republican or Democrat, is the anti-Obama. Is it Hillary? Or could it be Andrew?” Andrew was a long shot, the adviser conceded. “But he’s positioned himself. He can’t contest Hillary for the left, but he can position himself as someone who can deal with the left and the right. He’s viable in this cycle if people collectively say we can’t put someone forward who’s not a strongly moderate candidate.

“So you’ll see Cuomo trying to move the party to the center going forward,” the adviser suggested. “He can stake out his position and then embrace Hillary. If she wins, it makes sense. If she loses, it makes sense. I think his positioning is Clintonian. The irony is: who is more Clintonian, Hillary or Andrew?”

For Andrew, a unified Republican U.S. Congress could be far more beneficial than a divided one. If the party actually governed, instead of obstructed, it might be strong for 2016. Hillary as the Democrat might lose. Four years of a Republican presidency might set Andrew up as the perfect alternative: the seasoned, centrist, three-term governor with all those on-time budgets behind him. At the picture-perfect presidential age of 63.

There was just that nagging question of character. Andrew was commanding, pragmatic, hardworking, personally incorruptible (so far), fierce in defense of his policies—and willing to compromise when absolutely necessary. In short, a strong leader. He was also vengeful, bullying, mean-spirited, conniving, not always true to his word, and very secretive.

Those are just the delicious descriptions his detractors – even on the Left – are looking for, and Weingarten wasted no time repeating them to her more than 45,000 Twitter followers.

Weingarten has been feuding with Cuomo, a proponent of charter schools and performance pay, for some time.

Last year, she announced she’d be voting for the ACORN-founded Working Families Party line on the ballot, while lamenting the exception of Cuomo.

“As I head back home to vote on Nov. 4, I’ll be casting my vote for the candidates endorsed by [New York State United Teachers], my statewide union, starting with Eric Schneiderman for attorney general, Thomas DiNapoli for comptroller, Tim Bishop for the U.S. House of Representatives, and a strong pro-public education, pro-worker majority in the state Senate and Assembly,” Weingarten said, according to Capital New York. “And I’ll be voting on the Working Families Party line. If I lived in another state, I’d be starting with the governor—but not in New York.

“It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening in New York, especially after campaigning across the country for gubernatorial candidates who unequivocally support public education, respect teachers and will fight for the investment our schools need,” Weingarten said. “But in New York, the decision is painful. I am deeply disappointed and appalled by Gov. Cuomo’s recent statement that public education is a ‘monopoly’ that needs to be busted up. (Frankly, it’s only hedge fund millionaires, right-wing privatizers and tea partiers who would use that terminology.) Public education is a public good and an anchor of democracy that is enshrined in our state constitution. Public education needs to be nurtured and reclaimed.”