Most of the candidates running for mayor of New York have refused to take a position on Cuomo’s concealment of nursing Home death data. Pictured here is a nursing home in Brooklyn using an emergency vehicle to transport patients to the hospital during the outbreak.
While New York Governor Cuomo is at the forefront of the debate over nursing home death data, several of the leading candidates for mayor of New York are keeping quiet about it, and none of them are taking a stand. Only Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral candidate and founder of Guardian Angels, a civilian policing organization, said stiffly, “You can’t be a New York mayor if you’re afraid of Cuomo! “
According to the New York Post, the top three New York mayoral contenders in the polls – City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and 2020 presidential contender Andrew Yang, a Chinese-American businessman Two other candidates, former investment banker Ray McGuire and Maya Wiley, former chair of the Citizens’ Complaint Review Board, have also declined to speak out on the nursing home issue.
Only two of the Democratic contenders made moderate statements such as “an investigation is warranted” and “the public has a right to know the truth. They are Kathryn Garcia and Shaun Donovan.
Democratic lawmakers who had previously taken a stand, including Congressman O’Casey (AOC), who is on the far left of the political spectrum, also kept their mouths shut. Only state Rep. Ron Kim, an Asian Democrat, is still insisting on the truth. Cuomo took a special shot at Kim at a press conference on Wednesday (Feb. 17) for this.
Voices For Seniors, a group that speaks out for senior residents in nursing homes, said it stands firmly with Rep. Kim and retweeted a tweet from Fox news meteorologist and New York Times best-selling author Janice Dean I’ve never been more disgusted than I am right now. I used to know Cuomo was a bully, but now I know he really is a horrible person.”
Only one Republican mayoral contender in New York City, Sliwa, still had the courage to stand up and speak out.
“You can’t be mayor of New York and be afraid of Cuomo.” The radio host and founder of Guardian Angels, who has just said he wants more patrols in the New York subway, said, “They know he’s going to be finished, show some courage!”
On Feb. 10, the New York Post obtained an exclusive recording of a conversation between Cuomo’s secretary and the state that exposed Cuomo and the state’s deliberate cover-up of nursing home death data last year to avoid a federal investigation.
But the governor’s secretary, Melissa DeRosa, later issued a statement saying they had given a “full and transparent response” to the Justice Department’s investigation; Cuomo publicly backed his secretary on Monday, saying the state had done nothing wrong.
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