A timeline of Cuomo’s fight for political survival
A timeline of Cuomo’s fight for political survival
It’s been a heck of a few months in state politics since a fateful Feb. 10 meeting between the governor’s aides and state lawmakers. Governor Cuomo on April 29. Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo The must-read daily newsletter for NY s political community. Get it in your inbox.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo stands to benefit from undermining public confidence in the investigation overseen by state Attorney General Letitia James. His political allies have alleged – without evidence – that she and a top investigator are more interested in scoring political points than finding the facts. The Cuomo administration has even brushed aside concerns that this amounts to tampering with an ongoing investigation just as the governor was getting ready to testify to investigators. I have concerns as to the in
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“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
HHS tries to put Fauci’s toothpaste back in the tube:
.@SecBecerra: We still want you to be as safe as possible. That s why the indoor policy should still be masking. pic.twitter.com/29hz6PITDg
“Bernie Sanders skeptical of the Biden White House’s dealmaking plan” [Axios]. “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) indicated to “Axios on HBO” he’s already impatient with the White House’s quest for Republican support for President Biden’s infrastructure package, saying. ‘The American people want results’ and don’t care if these results are achieved with bipartisan votes… [F]rankly, when people got a, you know [ha ], $1,400 check
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Three months ago, top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo met with a handful of Democratic state lawmakers to discuss why his administration waited months and months to release data on the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in hospitals. State politics would never be the same.
A scathing report on nursing home deaths by Attorney General Letitia James was bad enough, but the governor’s political problems escalated when the press found out that Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa had told legislators that the administration withheld data showing the true extent of nursing home deaths last year because they did not want then-President Donald Trump to find out.
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