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On a recent afternoon in Flushing, Queens, Assembly Member Ron Kim filtered through Main Street’s crowded sidewalks with his 6-year-old daughter in tow,
arrow Assemblymember Ron Kim speaks Wednesday at a press conference inside City Hall Park calling for a full investigation into Governor Cuomo s handling of nursing homes during COVID. Elizabeth Kim / Gothamist
For all of its political fervor, New York City is still a place where it is possible for state lawmakers to toil in relative obscurity for years. Such was the case with Ron Kim, a five-term Democratic Assemblymember from Queens whose clash with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the state s underreporting of nursing home deaths has catapulted him into national view.
Reports of what Kim described as a threatening phone call from the governor have given way to a broader (and long-simmering) discussion of Cuomo s aggressive political tactics, as well as brought added urgency to the effort to strip him of the emergency powers he has held during the pandemic. By all accounts, Cuomo, a three-term Democrat whose popularity had soared last year during his streak of daily cor