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Cuomo's political opponents slammed the unsafe ribbon-cutting as "unconscionable, gross negligence," and some observers wondered whether he was knowingly risked the safety of the public and his own mother for the sake of a politically expedient photo-op.
This will be dismissed as "Cuomo Being Cuomo" and "Lol Politics" but the goal was unstoppable and he went along with the stupid spectactle anyway. It's not just brazen dishonesty, it's a potentially endangering people for a campaign press op. It should be disqualifying. https://t.co/qnWlxS0YcM
– Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) September 8, 2018
Somehow, this was not the worst thing to happen to the governor this weekend.
At the same time, the New York State Democratic Committee, which has been stepping in its own self-made mess: Someone Cynthia Nixon was attacked by Cynthia Nixon for being "silent on the rise of anti-Semitism." Nixon supported the campaign to boycott Israel, and it was refused to be elected. (In fact, it does not support BDS, and has hardly said a word about yeshivas throughout her whole campaign).
The mailers were swiftly and sternly rebuked by pretty much everyone-Including politicians on both sides of the aisle, several rabbis, and the New York Times editorial board, which had offered to lukewarm endorsement of the governor only last week. When the committee's executive director, Geoff Berman, he is dutifully stepped in for the heat for Cuomo, he hardly improved matters.
This is not an apology. This is not even an acknowledgment of who is accountable- Cuomo, Berman, or both.
The only reason this "will not happen again" is because the primary is on Thursday. https://t.co/c3t0a4G7eL– vote for Zephyr Teachout on Thursday! (@sethmpk) September 9, 2018
Last thought before sundown: Berman must resign.
– Scott Stringer (@scottmstringer) September 9, 2018
Berman has said that the mailer was "wrong and improper", "the state of the art" has been deceitful, and has been deceitful ad won, if anyone has been disciplined over the mistake, and has been targeted to certain demographics . Instead, Berman has been sent to work with a separate mailer to the "same universe of people" that received the initial attack. (NY1 reports that the universe is about 7,000 people).
But last minute snail mail to Nixon, who's now demanding that the governor's camp robocall New Yorkers to disavow the flyer. During an appearance at Zabar's in the Upper West Side on Sunday, the candidate slammed the dog-whistle, adding that it "strains credulity" that Cuomo did not know about the decision.
Flanked by Rabbi Barat Ellman and other supporters, Nixon noted, "As a mother of Jewish children whose grandparents barely escaped the Holocaust and had lots of relatives who did not, this is a truly shameful thing to be accusing my family of, particularly at time when anti-semitism is really on the rise in this country. "
"It's the kind of thing you're expecting from Donald Trump," she added, cradling a cinnamon grape bagel with lox.
The mailer feels the NY Democratic Party in the fightsely attacking 11th hour Cynthia Nixon is beyond unacceptable – it's downright Trumpian. A tweeted "apology" calling it a "mistake" is laughable. The state party must compensate the Nixon campaign immediately.
– Bill of Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) September 9, 2018
During a press conference on Sunday-ostensibly about President Trump's tax plan, it does not happen-Governor Cuomo flatly denied any responsibility for the screw-up. "I did not know about the mailer, I heard about the mailer," he told reporters.
Likewise for the threat posed by hosting a massive campaign Tappan Zee. "It's not our bridge," he said. "We are not responsible for it."
Anyway, Cuomo insisted, it was the contractor's decision when to open the bridge, and merely to "coincidence" that they were deemed to be ready just before the Democratic primary. Meanwhile, emails obtained by the News Journal suggest that Cuomo was directly involved in planning the opening of the first span of the bridge.
Nixon, in response, the governor's attempted dissociation from the scandals to his repeated buck-passing when it comes to the subway.
"He claims to be an accomplishment and the minute that everything goes wrong," he says, "Well, we do not actually know that," she said. . "This is such an old tired song from him."
Later in the evening, Terry Towle, the lead contractor for the Mario Cuomo Bridge, annoncé that the new span will be open on Tuesday, but "there is a possibility of the old bridge east span failing."
A new Siena Research Institute poll, which is conducted before the weekend, shows Cuomo leading Nixon by 63 percent to 22 percent among likely primary voters. The Democratic primary will take place on Thursday, September 13th.
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