NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has gained a national following through his management of the coronavirus pandemic, is writing a book that looks back on his experiences, and includes leadership advice and a close look at his relationship with the administration of President Donald Trump.
Andrew Cuomo is a shitty Dem whose story of COVID-19 is that he ignored it for weeks and weeks before finally waking up like a day and a half earlier than De Blasio.
I’ll shelve it between donnie jr’s opus and “my pet goat”.
Although he finally woke up and did the right thing with the pandemic, he’s no shining example:
Cuomo shows some leadership and then transparently displays his outsized ego as he has done so often. While he learned well about politics from his father, his father he is not. He demonstrates why we must welcome the small gifts that come our way in comparison to the monstrous chaos coming out of the White House.
That’s probably the best, succinct simultaneous summary of Andrew Cuomo and his response (plus De Blasio’s) to COVID that I’ve seen so far.
Those leadership lessons better include a massive dose of “here’s where I fucked up” because there were a lot of them. That said, he more so than anyone else had to deal with the pandemic first and at a scale that others didn’t that early on, and it was magnified by no leadership and outright obstruction from Trump. Hindsight being what it is I can understand some of the mistakes he made but I hope there’s little to no patting himself on the back outside of him treating his daily pressers seriously (even my Republican father who doesn’t live in or near NY was tuning in to Cuomo’s reports for information at the time).
Um, California managed to deal with it earlier and managed to dodge the massive death wave. Other whole countries managed to do better than either state.
I think that’s a bit harsh, calling him a shitty Dem. He’s not a Dem at all. Let’s not forget he loyally served the GOP for years, sponsoring a group of turncoat Dem NY senators to caucus with the GOP and give the GOP a false majority for years. Also during the 2010 redistricting he loyally gerrymandered state and congressional districts on behalf of the GOP. The key thing to remember, before you criticize TV personality and author Cuomo for being a shitty Dem, is that he has always been very loyal to very rich Republican donors. He won’t raise taxes on billionaires by a penny, even in a pandemic, preferring instead to make massive cuts to services for regular New Yorkers. Be fair to the guy.
CA didn’t have anywhere near the number of cases or the density of cases that early on and medical professionals, leaders, etc. learned (some more than others) how to deal with it. I’m not excusing him, it’s ultimately his fault that medical facilities were overrun which was what lead to so much death early on. And for the most part the only countries that handled it better that early were ones with lower population densities or ones that already had a culture of wearing masks.
China has lower population densities??? South Korea? Stop making excuses for your local boy, and face up to it: he fucked up big time, then managed to climb out of the hole. That’s nothing to write a brag book about.
Yeah, don’t hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back there.
You conveniently left off this part of my comment:
or ones that already had a culture of wearing masks.
He’s not my local boy, I live on the other side of the country and have never set foot in NYC and as I stated in the first sentence of my initial comment:
Those leadership lessons better include a massive dose of “here’s where I fucked up” because there were a lot of them.
Maybe stop with the cherry picking to bolster your pointless arguments.