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Tony, Emmy and Grammy award winning actor, lifelong New Yorker and progressive advocate.
Mar 11, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
NY is about to get billions in pandemic aid to help schools, hospitals, businesses & more. BUT...Andrew Cuomo gets to decide how it’s spent

When the feds gave NY a billion to help schools earlier in the pandemic Cuomo took it to plug an unrelated budget gap.
1 As NY’s AG conducts an investigation into newly revealed cases of sexual misconduct, we cannot wait to address Cuomo’s years-long pattern of corrupt behavior — seen most starkly and tragically this last year in the nursing home scandal.
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Mar 3, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
In an America where the richest 3 individuals own the same amount of wealth as the entire bottom half of the population, I don’t think it’s radical or unrealistic to ask them to start paying their fair share in taxes. 1/5 In an America where our children live with the anxiety that our planet is on a path to destruction in the next decade, I don’t think it is radical or unrealistic to adopt a solution — the Green New Deal — which is as big as the threat we face. 2/5
Sep 14, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
This is an incredible moment for progressives, but it’s not just a moment -- it’s a movement, and this movement is only growing stronger. Our numbers show that the younger you are, the more likely it is that you voted for me today. I’m particularly proud of that fact, and it gives me so much hope for the future of our party and our country.