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To destroy your political enemies, you can a) beat them in an election, b) cut off their funding or c) leak opposition research about them to the public.

Or you can d) create a commission on a wonky unrelated topic, appoint a close ally to sit on it, and then hope that nobody notices when said commission quietly writes your enemies out of existence.

Such is the accusation against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lodged by the Working Families Party, a small but influential progressive third party that has been one of Mr. Cuomo’s loudest critics.

The W.F.P. has accused Mr. Cuomo of creating the State Public Campaign Financing Commission — a group ostensibly concerned with getting money out of politics — as a backdoor tool to dismantle fusion voting, and of handpicking an opponent of fusion voting to sit on it.