"Javits was really the site in New York for COVID," Cuomo said. "When it started, it was the main center for dealing with COVID."
Actually, Javits was opened to much fanfare but barely used during the first wave of COVID
Javits bounced back from its seemingly 0 impact on the state response to the first wave by eventually becoming one heck of a vaccine site!
The budget is late by a week, but Cuomo is going on and on and on about the early days of the pandemic, a topic that we are all quite familiar with
Here is a good reminder for Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is strangely nostalgic for back when Javits Center was barely used for anything businessinsider.com/why-nycs-large…
"It's going to be Chapter II of NY Tough," Cuomo says of economic recovery
Cuomo says he was on a call w/WH/Biden/Fauci today
"We have not yet won the war," says Cuomo, who is governor of a state that now has one of the highest infection rates in the country
Nearly 15 minutes in, still waiting on Cuomo to announce something new ... I'm an optimist
"This past year has been hell," says Cuomo. "We've had to make a lot of decisions."
The man speaks in codes
"Want to know the toughest decision I had to make ..."
... "When I had to say to the ppl of NY: Stay Home" said Cuomo who announced a stay at home order days and days after experts and even BdB were pushing for it
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"This budget is certainly the most robust, most important budget that we have done in this state, I believe in modern history," Gov. Cuomo says of a budget that featured several big setbacks for him on taxes/excluded workers/Penn Station
"The future belongs to the economy and the region that adjusts to our new reality the fastest," Cuomo. "this is an opportunity for New York to capitalize COVID is not just going to go away."
“The enforcer for all of this is Melissa DeRosa ... it's usually about making sure other people see her do that to you, so they know they are a target as well.” cityandstateny.com/articles/polit…
DeRose in a 2017 commencement address: "“I’m not sure which I find more offensive – the fact that this kind of behavior has been allowed to continue to go on as long as it has, or the idea that everyone is acting as if they are just now finding out about it."
“Strong-willed men in politics are often portrayed as these like manic geniuses,” political consultant Lis Smith, who has worked with DeRosa in the past, said in an interview. “Strong-willed women and politics are somehow always just a mix of Miranda Priestly and Regina George."