“As a state legislator who served during Andrew Cuomo’s governorship and witnessed its collapse up close, I know firsthand that sending Cuomo to City Hall will not solve New York City’s challenges. It will make them worse.”
As a state legislator who served during Andrew Cuomo’s governorship and witnessed its collapse up close, I know firsthand that sending Cuomo to City Hall will not solve New York City’s challenges. It will make them worse, especially under a Trump presidency, when we need principled leadership more than ever.
Many New Yorkers have a vision of Cuomo as an experienced statesman who appeared on our television screens daily during the difficult early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, filling a leadership vacuum left by Trump’s chaos and incompetence. But that vision is a mirage.
We know now that, away from the cameras, Cuomo was severely mismanaging the crisis. He directed staff to undercount the death toll and issued regulations to send sick patients into nursing homes, dramatically increasing the risk that they would spread the disease. I remember well because I chaired the oversight hearing exposing his lies…