The Ultimate Townhall Media Experience Has Arrived
Minnesota Just Admitted That Illegals Can Vote in Their Elections
Well, That's Certainly an Interesting Donor You Have, Mikie Sherrill
RFK Jr's Wife Slaps Down Attacks Against Her Husband With One Simple Fact
HBO Host Has a Total Meltdown Over CBS News' New Editor-in-Chief
Why Did Democrats Lose White Men? John Fetterman Has the Answer.
The ‘Climate Crisis’ Is the Left’s New Tool to Shame, Scare, and Silence...
Zohran Mamdani Will Make NYC a Haven for Sex Traffickers
The White Houses Response to the 'No Kings' Protests: 'Who Cares?'
200 Capitol Police Officers Secure 'No Kings' Rally For No Pay
Vought Pauses $11B in Projects During Schumer's Shutdown
ICE Arrested Illegal Alien Serving As Suburban Chicago Police Officer
21 Attorneys General Challenge EPA Over Solar Program Cuts
Feds Nab Illegal Alien Who Placed $10,000 Bounty on ICE Agent
The Direct Path to Affordable Medicines
Tipsheet
Premium

NY Assemblywoman Reminds Us of Some of Gov. Cuomo's Past Behavior

AP Photo/Hans Pennink

This week we were completely unsurprised to learn that Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened and bullied a Democratic assemblyman over his nursing home scandal. That assemblyman, Ron Kim, lost an uncle in a nursing home to presumed COVID-19, and is one of several individuals to demand apologies from Cuomo and investigations into what happened. When the two men spoke on the phone recently, Kim said that the governor questioned his integrity and threatened to finish his career if he didn't back off.

That report has given other Cuomo critics an opening to share their own unfortunate encounters with Cuomo. Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou assembled a list for her Twitter followers. And she says she is working with plenty of material.

Niou shared an account from Janos Marton, former special counsel for the now-disbanded Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, who says he has a firsthand account of the governor's bullying. He shared a piece he wrote back in 2013-2014 that accused Cuomo of pressuring commission members to make statements he knew to be "blatantly untrue."

Marton continued: "...what I observed showed me what little regard Governor Cuomo and his senior staff have for the press, the public, and people with integrity who work in government. Their disdain for ethics colors the way they govern the entire state."

As The New York Times reported in 2016, Gov. Cuomo nor his staff faced federal charges for the reported bullying and interference into the commission's work.

The bullying trickles down to his staff too. Reporter Alexis Grenell recalled how Cuomo aide Rich Azzopardi once affectionately called three female New York lawmakers, including Niou, some profane names. *(graphic language)*

It's language we've come to expect from Mr. Azzopardi.

Investigations have indeed been opened into Cuomo's failed leadership during the pandemic and how it may have contributed to the over 15,000 nursing home deaths.

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement