Mayor Eric Adams took sharp aim at former Governor Andrew Cuomo during his weekly Q&A with reporters on Tuesday, targeting one of Cuomo’s key mayoral campaign boasts—his management expertise.
“You mean the management he did with the nursing homes?” Adams said, alluding to Cuomo’s controversial pandemic directive that prevented nursing homes from refusing patients with COVID-19. He didn’t stop there, adding, “Or probably the management he did with the bail reform, is that what you’re talking about? That caused the ruckus we’re facing? Is that good management?”
Driving the point home, Adams contrasted the roles of mayor and governor, stating, “You can’t just hide out in a mansion.”
Cuomo’s campaign spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, fired back, defending the former governor’s record. “It is management, Mr. Mayor,” Azzopardi said, pointing to achievements like capping state spending, constructing the Second Avenue subway, and overseeing the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport.
Azzopardi didn’t hold back, taking a swipe at Adams: “Desperate men — particularly one’s acting as an agent of Trump — say desperate things.” The jab referenced the recent decision by Trump’s Justice Department to drop a corruption case against Adams, freeing the mayor to focus on issues like immigration enforcement and crime.
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No big fan of Mayor Adam’s, but Coumo TOTALLY mishandled the covid epidemic by deceiving and outright lying to his constituents. He took credit for saving people’s lives when in fact, he was responsible for so many deaths.
As I was reading the article, I was sure it’s AP, but it seems YWN writes with a similar bias. You call Cuomo’s forcing Covid patients into old-age homes “controversial”? So you maintain that a significant portion of society believes that it was a good thing to force them in. Well, I’d like you to find me those members. I think by and large everyone sane recognizes that that move was a death sentence for many non-Covid old-age home residents. But AP would agree with you, because they are not sane…