New York Democrats accuse Cuomo of threats, intimidating phone calls: 'gangster stuff'

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'So many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him,' one New York Democratic assemblywoman said of Governor Andrew Cuomo

Additionally, two-time Democratic House candidate Nate McMurray compared Cuomo's efforts to control state politics to"gangster stuff" in a Saturdaypiece. McMurray said he received a call from a Cuomo aide on New Year's Eve that opened with the greeting of"you motherf**er," and shouts of"you're done in politics."

McMurray said the anger was directed at a tweet that criticized Cuomo's reported plans to attend a Buffalo Bills game amid the pandemic. Conceding that he was"scared," McMurray toldhe took the critical Cuomo tweet down over concerns of a"pervasive culture of fear that has trickled down from his office."

Yuh-Line Niou, a Democratic assemblywoman from New York City, led an outpour of internal Cuomo criticism on Twitter, remarking Friday:"So many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him." I kid you not....my text messages, my DMs, and my inbox are flooded with cuomo stories. So many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him.A state attorney general report emerged in late January that showed a staggering number of deaths occurred after Cuomo made a controversial order to move recovering coronavirus patients from hospitals to nursing homes. The report revealed that thousands of nursing home deaths had not been reported by the Cuomo administration.

The three-term New York governor last week acknowledged making a"mistake in creating the void" by underreporting the nursing home deaths, but has stopped short of a direct apology, prompting ridicule from both Democrats and

 

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Once again you get it wrong. Bipartisan anger. Grow up folks.

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