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Cuomo apparently has a “very short” list of not shouting
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s advisers (D) are the first to say that the governor is impetuous, loud and easily irritated. But his style of governing was questioned after state senator Ron Kim (D) accused the governor of “abusing his powers” by threatening Kim’s career if he did not cover up the death scandal at the governor’s COVID-19 nursing home. . Interviews with dozens of lawmakers, former officials, political advisers and other insiders supported Kim’s assessment – with a few exceptions, reports The New York Times. In the days after Kim shared his story, Cuomo’s former enemy, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said the governor’s threats were “the classic Andrew Cuomo”. Karen Hinton, a communications consultant who worked with Cuomo, told the Times that “her main tool for governing is creating fear”. And other anonymous sources recall how he once threatened to compare then-Democratic rival Cynthia Nixon to a “child rapist,” and that he seemed proud of the so-called “bad girls” advisers in his office. Meanwhile, state senator Liz Krueger (D) says she has never faced Cuomo’s wrath and knows she is one of the privileged few. As Krueger, head of the Senate finance committee, reminded the Times, Cuomo’s former aide, Joseph Percoco, once said that she was on Cuomo’s “don’t shout” list. “I replied, ‘Do you have that list?'” Krueger told the Times. “He said, ‘It’s too small.'” Percoco is currently in prison serving a sentence for conspiracy and bribery. Cuomo’s senior adviser Richard Azzopardi, meanwhile, said the governor “[s] impatient with party politics and hypocritical attacks, “but that New Yorkers” know that you must fight to change the status quo and special interests to progress. “Read more in the New York Times. More stories from theweek.comTed Cruz invited his roommate on the trip to Mexico, he blamed his daughters Resign, Andrew Cuomo5 outrageously funny cartoons about Ted Cruz’s escape in Cancún