New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo over recent revelations that Covid cluster zones determined by the governor were not based on health metrics, but were rather arbitrarily imposed by Cuomo, regardless of the situation on the ground.
De Blasio tore into Cuomo when asked by veteran Hamodia reporter Reuvain Borchardt whether the city’s refusal to publicly release the health metrics as per the request of frum community officials was supported by the mayor or not.
“We thought that the approach that we were taking was the clearest approach. I was confused and confounded by the zones the state created. They were somehow self-created geographical units, when we were working from well recognized geography, and we thought it made so much more sense to just take what we knew and work from that,” de Blasio said.
“You hit the nail on the head that, unfortunately, at that point, with that governor, if the city did something – no matter how good or how effective – the state had to do it some different way,” he continued, declining to call former Governor Cuomo by name.
“We knew that people were being told not to talk to us, because we couldn’t get answers from them – that’s how we knew. And that’s just wrong,” de Blasio added. “It was a global pandemic. It was wrong that professionals were not really allowed to talk to [other] professionals and get the kind of answers that would protect people’s health.”
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I really dont know what more Reuven wanted DeBlasio to do. The mayor spurred with Cuomo almost every single day in the media. There were some things that were just out of the city’s control.
If you believe DeBozo didn’t realize what was going on I have a bridge to sell you. Now that Cuomo isn’t around he’s backtracking. He had the metrics and spewed the same garbage Cuomo did to hurt the frum communities.
Big talk now when he is thinking of running for governor himself .
When it came to sending out armies of inspectors giving tickets to even CLOSED businesses and Yeshivas De Blasio was 100% on the same page as Cuomo .
Not only that, even this very summer he refused to dismiss those violations (Eric Adams said he would as a campaign promise)
Pot, meet kettle
He’s a total moron, but, apparently, smart enough to lie.
From the self righteous one…
It is not news, under the man-bites-dog definition of news, when Mayor deBlasio “blasts” former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. What is the information that reporter Ruvain Borchardt wants, and did deBlasio give it? I can’t tell from this article.
So whenever things didn’t go his way, Cuomo blamed Trump. And Blasio blamed Cuomo. What a game! Except they were playing with people’s lives! A TRUE leader stands up and is accountable for his own actions without pointing fingers at others. If Blasio doesn’t have the spine and the courage needed to be a leader he should’ve just stepped down. AND HE SHOULDN’T EVEN ENTERTAIN THE THOUGHT OF RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.