Grieving Families Join Andrew Cuomo’s Mayoral Foes to Mark Grim COVID Nursing-Home Debacle: ‘Failure of leadership’; Cuomo Greenlit Progressive Nonsense and Royally Fumbled COVID – But Still Refuses to Admit He Helped Destroy NYC, and other C-Virus related stories
Grieving families join Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral foes to mark grim COVID nursing-home debacle: ‘Failure of leadership’:
Dozens of grieving New York families who lost elderly loved ones during the pandemic joined eight of Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral race foes Sunday to somberly mark the five years since the former governor’s controversial order to house COVID patients in nursing homes.
The family members and candidates were united in sorrow and outrage, excoriating Cuomo for his fateful decision, which by many estimates resulted in the premature deaths of about 15,000 nursing-home residents, all while he touted his leadership of the Empire State and signed a multimillion-dollar book deal.
“My mother’s name is Anna Martinez. She was a strong, kind woman who dedicated her life to her family,” said Alexa Rivera, who founded Voices for Seniors along with her sister, Vivian Zayas, after their mother died following Cuomo’s March 25, 2020, order.
“She deserved dignity and protection and a government that valued her life,” Rivera said at the gathering. “But instead she was abandoned by the very system that was supposed to protect her when the pandemic struck.
“I stand before you today not just as a grieving daughter but as the voice for thousands of families who lost their loved ones due to the reckless and deadly decisions of Andrew Cuomo,” Rivera said. “My sister and I started this advocacy group searching for answers, never realizing that the very governor our mother voted for was the one who facilitated her death.
“Let’s be clear: This was not just an accident. It was a failure of leadership, a betrayal of trust and an avoidable tragedy.”
The mood was rife with emotion outside the Cobble Hill brownstone where Norman Arbeeny lived and later died after contracting COVID-19 at the age of 89.—>READ MORE HERE
Michael Goodwin: Cuomo greenlit progressive nonsense and royally fumbled COVID – but still refuses to admit he helped destroy NYC:
For months I’ve doubted the poll-driven story line that Andrew Cuomo is unbeatable in the Democrats’ mayoral primary.
Despite his consistent lead of 20 or more points over a large field, I believed Cuomo’s enormous Albany baggage would be a burden and as more voters paid attention, he would be vulnerable to younger, fresher opponents.
His weak performance Monday convinced me the day of reckoning is growing closer.
It’s an understatement to say the former governor’s meeting with Post editors and reporters did not go well.
He appeared to sense as much about halfway through the two-hour slug-athon as his shoulders sagged and his customary combativeness grew perfunctory.
The toughest questioning focused on his nearly 11-year run as governor and his repeated portrayal of himself as a lone, courageous moderate against the emerging socialist wing of his party.
But his resistance, such as it was, only went so far.
His signature is on a wide range of legislation that is destroying the city and state.
Progressive nonsense
From crime and disorder to radical climate policies, from rotten schools to congestion pricing, Cuomo gave the green light to a mountain of progressive nonsense.
“A governor is not a dictator,” he said in a weak defense.
“I always made the best deal I could.”
It’s part of his routine, that politics is a dirty game even as he spends a lifetime being the son of a politician and one himself. —>READ MORE HERE
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