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I've been on this website for more than 12 years and posted damn near 30K items. At least for now, I'm leaving. Here's my envoi; hope to see at least some of you elsewhere.
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ICYMI: Tuesday,
@RepStefanik
filed a proxy letter granting
@RepMeuser
the authority to vote on her behalf. She cited “the ongoing public health emergency” as the reason for her absence from DC. A few hours later, she attended a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.
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The congresswoman endorsed Carl Paladino, who called Hitler “the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational. We need somebody that is a doer.”
Ilhan Omar’s history of Anti-Semitic remarks disqualifies her from serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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@timesunion
editorial board to
@RepStefanik
: “Either you stand for the rule of law and accept the results ... or you follow a deluded or corrupt president and the mob he and his surrogates and radical right-wing propagandists have whipped into a frenzy.”
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@jaketapper
notes that
@NYGovCuomo
has refused repeated requests to come on the show. (The gov has, of course, rarely missed a chance to go on his brother’s show on the same network.)
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Do you people have any idea how many stories about
@NYGovCuomo
are going to come out once he loses the vast retaliatory powers of the Executive Chamber?
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@NYGovCuomo
is acting as if DOJ and the Legislature were the only two entities seeking data regarding the deaths of nursing home residents. That's completely false, and ignores the scores of journalists and other groups that were stonewalled since July.
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The
@timesunion
's editorial board has endorsed
@CastelliMatt
in the 21st CD: "Incumbent
@EliseStefanik
has become a toxic influence on Congress and American politics. Her opponent is someone who could make the North Country proud to be represented again."
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Let’s all pause for a moment and try to imagine the bipartisan reaction if this had been posited by
@BarackObama
or
@HillaryClinton
.
Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!
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Probably the worst thing to happen to Khashoggi as well.
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@timesunion
editorial board: “Now is the time for Ms. Stefanik — a frequent social-media scourge of any politician accused of wrongdoing who is not a member of her party — to show some of the integrity displayed by her state GOP colleagues.”
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BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
faces a new allegation from a sixth woman, this time involving inappropriate touching after she was summoned to the Executive Mansion late last year.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports:
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Statement from
@washingtonpost
publisher and CEO calling out
@mikepompeo
's slurs against Jamal Khashoggi.
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A first: flying north out of LaGuardia just after full dark on July 4th. Really beautiful.
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In case you hadn't guessed by now, it's clear that the reason why DOH and the rest of the
@NYGovCuomo
administration have been stonewalling nursing home death data is because it is ghastly.
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O Captain!:
@NYGovCuomo
recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor recently moved out.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports.
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On
@MSNBC
,
@WillieGeist
notes to Ron Kim that we don't really need to question the veracity of the assemblyman's charge that
@NYGovCuomo
last week threatened to slime him because the governor proceeded to do just that on Wednesday.
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@timesunion
editorial board: “There is more violence brewing, even as
@RepStefanik
and her colleagues still spew lies .... If blood is shed in what comes next, it will be on the hands of Ms. Stefanik and her colleagues, and the president.”
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It’s almost like there was a kind of stain on the Democratic brand in New York or something
Andrew Cuomo says Zeldin coming within 5 points of victory ‘a real wake-up call’
“To come within 5 points — that’s the closest race since George Pataki, so that is a real wake-up call. And it did cost Democrats, it has cost precious congressional seats”
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We fact-checked
@RepStefanik
's defense of her votes last night. They were rife with arguments rejected by the courts and debunked by state officials — including one claim of widespread fraud in Georgia that even her staff couldn't explain.
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I hope the people who have analogized having to wear a mask or get a vaccine to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust are watching this
@60Minutes
story looking at the hunt for the informant who dimed out Anne Frank’s family. But I kind of doubt it.
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Last winter, NY and Calif. bought coronavirus tests that were exactly the same. But Calif. paid about 45 percent less. If NY had paid the same price, the state would have saved $286M. The state bought the tests from a major
@GovKathyHochul
donor.
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You will recall that Jonathan Swift was Irish.
The opening two paragraphs from the Irish Times review of the Harry and Meghan interview. Lmao.
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The
@timesunion
's editorial board calls on
@NYGovCuomo
to resign: "Mr. Cuomo has squandered the public’s trust at a time when it’s needed more than ever."
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Chag imeach to all who celebrate.
Lauren Boebert has sent a release calling to impeach Biden, but she has messed up the logo here
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For the
@NYGovCuomo
stans saying “I smell a rat — why are all these women coming forward all at once?,” have someone read these paragraphs to you.
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BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
's office is conducting its own investigation into the harassment complaints against him — and offering staff members lawyers to accompany them to questioning by
@NewYorkStateAG
's team.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports:
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Some personal news — a high honor to carry on
@rexwsmith
's work helping the
@timesunion
's newsroom stay vital to the Capital Region and beyond. Do your part and support local journalism!
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The
@timesunion
’s editorial board has endorsed
@GovKathyHochul
for a full term: “The Democratic incumbent has proven herself to be a capable governor. Her Republican opponent's record and agenda are troubling.”
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.
@NYGovCuomo
's appearance in Goshen was announced to the media 74 minutes before it began. These efforts to dodge questions are not new.
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Under the terms of
@NYGovCuomo
's own 2018 executive order, Charlotte Bennett's allegations against him should have been referred to GOER. Instead, they were handled by Beth Garvey, his counsel.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports.
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This does not look particularly insane but OK.
Passed by a media madhouse at the federal court in Brooklyn today for R. Kelly. Bigger than El Chapo and that weird upstate cult guy crowds.
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.
@NYGovCuomo
, who blew off months of WH briefings on vaccine plans, has been loudly complaining — without evidence — that the FDA's approval process shouldn't be trusted.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports:
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This event is closed to the media due to COVID restrictions. If it were a restaurant or bar, it looks like it would be shut down.
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“The aides who were involved in changing the report included
@melissadderosa
, the governor’s top aide;
@LindaLacewell
, the head of the state’s Department of Financial Services; and
@jimmalatras
.”
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I literally can't remember Cuomo ever taking his family — or anyone — out for dinner in Albany. This spot is four blocks from the Executive Mansion.
Kathy Hochul celebrated her swearing in with some of Albany’s dopest Italian food.
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If you're looking for
@melissadderosa
or
@LindaLacewell
, I believe they're reachable under the bus.
Full statement from SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras on his role in crafting July nursing home report
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Read the
@timesunion
’s fact check of
@RepStefanik
’s Jan. 6, 2021, open letter to her North Country constituents about her intention to invalidate electoral votes — an argument rife with falsehoods that she stands by a year later.
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The amount of people who burned down their reputations to serve
@andrewcuomo
is truly stunning.
NEWS: Time’s Up leader Tina Tchen resigns in fallout from New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sexual harassment scandal. w/
@michaelscherer
on lead:
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I,
@Brendan_LyonsTU
and the
@timesunion
's readers were lied to by Executive Chamber staff including
@melissadderosa
and the State Police in order to cover up
@NYGovCuomo
's desire to skirt regs to add a female trooper to his detail, who he subsequently sexually harassed.
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@timesunion
editorial board: “
@RepStefanik
has a choice to make: between a president whose reputation she seems determined to protect and the lives of American servicepeople whom that president seems to regard only as show props.”
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Hundreds of residents in Saratoga Springs and Amsterdam have written letters to a judge objecting to being placed in the district that could be represented by
@RepStefanik
.
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Person who doused house with kerosene and pulled out Zippo says fire is dangerous.
Americans have a Constitutional right to protest & freedom of speech, but violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable & anti-American.
My staff & I are safe.
We pray that all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, their staff, & all Americans remain safe.
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If the state Legislature and
@NYGovCuomo
want to do something concrete to rein in police misconduct, they can return to Albany this week and undo 50-a, the state law that keeps the personnel records of cops, firefighters and others veiled from public view:
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Sweet mother of mercy — is anyone going to ask a fact question?
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Yesterday was my Mom’s 80th birthday. Here’s what she’s doing today in Louisville.
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“It is amusing ... that (
@RepStefanik
) would point to the will of the voters, considering it was she who, a month ago, was doing her best to undermine the election results in Georgia.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene's vicious lies are "inexcusable" — Elise Stefanik is right about that. She should have done something about it.
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Just realized today marks a year since I officially took over as editor of the
@timesunion
. I've been a journalist for 30 years, but never before had 12 months as rewarding as these. Thanks to ALL the dedicated pros I get to work with every day, and the readers who support us.
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I have had numerous occasions down through the years to note
@NYGovCuomo
's horror of independent investigations when they come anywhere near him. But I've never seen this tendency expressed in so naked a fashion as we're seeing today.
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When watching "Dopesick," bear in mind that the firm that paid $573M to answer allegations it helped Purdue "turbocharge" the opioid epidemic is the same company that assisted in the production of
@HealthNYGov
's nursing home report.
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.
@chris_churchill
:
@RepStefanik
remains absolutely consistent in her denunciation of alleged sexual misconduct as long as the accused is not a member of her party.
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Narrator: In fact, a black woman had applied for the nomination, but had been rejected by a secretive panel largely staffed by appointees of the disgraced former governor and ex-chief judge.
Just listened to LaSalle supporter and lobbyist Roberto Ramirez’s interview w
@TweetBenMax
about LaSalle.
In one notable moment, Ramirez said: “If the nominee had been a Black woman, or a Black man, or Jewish…would what happened have been done to them?”
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Can anyone else think of a public website being used by taxpayer-funded attorneys to denounce victims of alleged sexual harassment? Usually you rent a hotel conference room for that kind of thing.
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You mean future FBI Director Joe Arpaio.
PHOENIX (AP) — Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses bid for seventh term after facing criminal charge 2 weeks before Election Day .
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Four members of this Saratoga County family got COVID at the same time. The two members who were vaccinated recovered; the other two, father and son, died in ICU just days apart.
@wendyliberatore
reports.
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Column: If you're looking for a possible motive for
@NYGovCuomo
’s stonewalling on nursing home deaths, the novels of Agatha Christie are full of characters who commit far more heinous acts for a lot less than $5.1 million, even adjusted for inflation.
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New from
@RonanFarrow
:
@NYGovCuomo
made a wholly inappropriate call to the White House in April 2014 to complain about
@PreetBharara
, who was looking into the shuttering of the Moreland Commission.
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.
@Lis_Smith
/
@melissadderosa
text exchange from March 9, the day
@Brendan_LyonsTU
broke news of Brittany Commisso's allegations.
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.
@stoolpresidente
goes bananas for Troy's beloved DeFazio's Pizzeria. From
@timesunion
deputy pizza correspondent
@Brendan_LyonsTU
.
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Thanks for including the link, Alex. Here's an additional link to the report from
@NAPOpolice
that gives
@RepStefanik
the lowest score among the NY House delegation.
@chris_churchill
asked for a response from her and received none.
With editorial “leadership” like this, it’s little wonder why no one will pay 99c for the subscriptions they’re so desperate for. Complete garbage.
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@timesunion
editorial board:
@RepStefanik
“is as unburdened as ever by the special responsibility she bears as a member of the House of Representatives and leader of the GOP conference to be mindful of the consequences of her words and actions.”
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Column: The
@NYGovCuomo
admin’s response to nursing home deaths was previously deployed for the Schoharie limo crash and the scuttling of the Moreland Commission — admit no error, stonewall the evidence, and behave like all critics are acting in bad faith.
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The answer to any question that begins "Is it legal under New York campaign finance law to ... " is almost always "Yes."
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Editorial: If
@NYGovCuomo
led a business, nonprofit or state agency, he would have been fired Tuesday. Since he won’t resign, the
@NYSA_Majority
must move with dispatch to impeach him.
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There's a state hiring freeze; school districts and local governments have seen state aid slashed — but
@NYGovCuomo
keeps hiring former political operatives to taxpayer-funded jobs.
@ChrisBragg1
reports:
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.
@RepStefanik
remains 100 percent consistent in her strong denunciation of sexual harassment and abuses of power when alleged against someone who isn't in her party.
My statement on the New York State Assembly’s impeachment report and the need to arrest
#CorruptCuomo
⬇️
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Saratoga County GOP cancels
@RepStefanik
-hyped rally featuring Scott Presler, identified by
@splcenter
as operative for anti-Muslim hate group — not for the racism, of course, but due to a COVID outbreak.
@wendyliberatore
reports.
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@chris_churchill
: The
@NYGovCuomo
administration's excuses for not being able to provide the full tally of COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents are growing more feeble with each passing day.
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BREAKING from
@Brendan_LyonsTU
: After the Appellate Division unanimously rejected an appeal from Tappan Zee Constructors seeking to keep it sealed forever, portions of a whistleblower’s lawsuit have been made public.
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Because Rensselaer County's chief medical examiner refuses to get vaccinated for COVID-19, bodies have to be transported to Glens Falls Hospital, which is still allowing him to do work at their facility.
@KennethCrowe
reports.
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If the moderator doesn’t retain the power to switch off mics of candidates who abuse time limits, these debates are going to be absolutely worthless.
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.
@timesunion
editorial board: Before and after her investigation of Cuomo,
@NewYorkStateAG
should know what accountability and transparency looks like. This is not even close.
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Congrats to my friend and former cellmate
@JimmyVielkind
on receiving the Walter T. Brown Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association 2021 Award for excellence in coverage of NYS government and politics — although, really, it wasn't much of a year for state news.
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Update: This stray good girl stayed overnight with us. Took her this morning to get scanned for a microchip, which was detected; waiting for more info. Apparently
@CityAlbany
animal control doesn’t return messages on the weekend.
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“Gilded Age” filming on State Street adds some grace to Albany’s summer evening.
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"My disappointing experience of re-victimization ... yet again sadly highlights the reason victims are afraid to come forward, especially against people in power": Brittany Commisso drops a bomb on
@DavidSoaresNY
.
@Brendan_LyonsTU
reports.
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Caller asks if we take Medicare. I say we're a newspaper. She says we were listed under dentistry. I say we haven't done dentistry in the newsroom in several years.
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.
@chris_churchill
: “Unlike nurses or doctors, cops or firefighters, most grocery workers didn’t knowingly sign up for this. They didn’t expect to be on the front lines of a crisis. But they’re among the unsung heroes of the moment.”
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The
@timesunion
editorial board:
@andrewcuomo
should “reimburse taxpayers for the misuse of state employees … along with a hefty penalty.”
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NEW from
@ChrisBragg1
: Emails detail
@GovKathyHochul
campaign staff handing off big-money donors to Executive Chamber aides. An especially lucid explanation of how the Albany access economy operates.
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RIP Kirk Douglas, Amsterdam native— a great actor, a man of high moral courage and forever a credit to
#UpstateAmerica
.
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Trump said of
@EliseStefanik
, "I was up campaigning for her, helping her" — he might be confusing her with
@claudiatenney
, who got a Utica fundraiser with POTUS the same day he signed a bill alongside ES in Fort Drum.
"She looks good, she looks like good talent, but when you open that mouth, you are killing them, Elise!" -President Trump on
@RepStefanik
"I'll always be your friend. What a great future you have. The first lady agrees."
@washingtonpost
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Scoop from
@chris_churchill
: If
@NewYorkStateAG
Tish James runs against
@GovKathyHochul
,
@ZephyrTeachout
will seek the AG’s office.
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Who in
@NYGovCuomo
's campaign was simple enough to think that no one would notice this transparent effort to goose small-dollar contributions?
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This report from
@NYHammond
on the
@NYGovCuomo
administration's self-serving stonewalling and falsehoods on nursing home deaths is devastating. That's not a peer review, mind you, but still.
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He’s not going to resign unless the Legislature makes his exit inevitable.
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This is a remarkable analysis: Those who supported other candidates were cynical opportunists; the success of the candidates supported by our moneybombing proves it.
So many electeds and others ran against
@TishJames
and
@LtGovHochulNY
-- making cynical moves based on their finger in the wind calculus. The people of NY disagreed with them -- and the people of New York, and Governor Cuomo were right and they were wrong.
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Looking back, we’ll recognize that the interruption in the supply of these cookies due to dangerous weather was the moment we finally got serious about climate change.
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Summarizing
@NYGovCuomo
's Tuesday messaging:
— I'll put the full weight of my executive power behind a 7-year-old trying to run a lemonade stand;
— I will not answer questions about the donor who gave me at least $400K.
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An interview with Executive Assistant
#1
will appear Monday on
@timesunion
.com and
@CBSThisMorning
.
“What he did to me was a crime,” a former Gov. Cuomo aide, identified in the report as executive assistant
#1
, tells
@CBSNews
and the
@timesunion
. She alleges the governor groped her, which Cuomo denies, and has now filed a criminal complaint against him.
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I trust that
@brianstelter
is poring over today's document dump — it reveals a far greater role for
@ChrisCuomo
in his brother's response team than previously disclosed.
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Column:
@andrewcuomo
’s attorney says he’s being denied due process. He missed his chance to have a super-jumbo serving of it when he resigned.
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Yes! FINALLY we're getting the story of the true victims of the Cuomo scandals: the elite crisis-PR sharpshooters who allowed themselves to stay aboard the train out of nothing more objectionable than blind loyalty. Oh, when will their suffering end? And will their books sell?
"Say what you will about Andrew Cuomo, but he died as he lived: with zero regard for the people around him and the impact his actions would have on them."
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Give me a break —
@KathleenRice
was asked repeatedly by reporters to discuss her Moreland experience, and waited until it was politically safe to speak publicly in anything but proud-of-our-work generalities.
Coming up on
@CapitalTonight
: Rep. Kathleen Rice talks about her experience on the Moreland Commission and Cuomo's interference.
"What I never understood was why the media didn't care. We were exposing exactly who the governor was eight years ago. And no one wanted to listen."
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