Mayoral candidate Adrienne Adams ripped rival Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis — as she tearfully remembered the injustice of her military veteran father’s death in a hospital during the shutdown.
Adams on Thursday criticized Democratic Party primary frontrunner Cuomo for his “redemption” campaign to return to office several years after resigning as state governor while embroiled in scandal.
“This past Easter Andrew Cuomo campaigned in a church,” said Adams, who is now serving as City Council president.
“Recounting this chapter in New York’s past he said: ‘You hit us with COVID, life and death, we do what they said was impossible, and we save lives.’
“His words stayed with me. Because I remember begging the governor’s office to send life saving vaccines to my community,” Adams told reporters at a news conference at Elmhurst Hospital.
“And for weeks and months, our request was denied no matter what we said. Because the site where the vaccines were supposed to go was run by then-Mayor de Blasio, the former governor’s political enemy.”
She tied the bickering to the death of her father Irvin Eadie, who died of COVID-19 in Long Island Jewish Hospital May 22, 2020 before the vaccine was developed.
She said didn’t take her UPS driver and Air Force military veteran dad to Elmhurst — even though it was the closest hospital to his Jackson Heights home — because it was overwhelmed with coronavirus patients and considered the local epicenter of the pandemic.
“People only go to Elmhurst to die,” a tearful Adams claimed the EMTs told her when her father was being taken for medical treatment.
She could not visit him in the hospital, hold a military funeral service at his beloved St. Mark AME church or a hold ceremony at Calverton National Cemetery because of pandemic restrictions, she added. --->READ MORE HERE
New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo wasted no time dropping a campaign ad casting himself as a bulwark to President Trump after news broke that he’s facing a Department of Justice probe – raising eyebrows as experts said it could give him an election boost.
The ad titled “Target” released Wednesday parades a long list of Trump’s political enemies who now face potential criminal trouble with the feds – ending with the ex-governor, who is reportedly being eyed over his House testimony about the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If Donald Trump doesn’t want Andrew Cuomo as mayor, you do,” the ad declares.
Cuomo’s campaign also quickly used the probe as fodder for fundraising, as they bundled the ad in an email asking for contributions.
The 30-second clip ropes in state Attorney General Letitia James – whose sexual harassment probe into Cuomo helped lead to his resignation as governor in 2021 – painting her as a fellow victim of Trump’s political weaponized vengeance.
One Democratic operative angrily condemned Cuomo as “shameless” for trying to grow his campaign coffers less than 24 hours after The New York Times reported the DOJ had opened a criminal probe into him last month for allegedly lying to Congress about nursing home deaths in New York during the pandemic’s early days.
Adding insult to injury, the source said, was Cuomo using James – whom he recently accused of leaking embarrassing testimony about his alleged “emotional romantic relationship” with a married top aide – in the ad.
“Less than a month ago Cuomo was dragging Tish’s name through the mud, and now he’s trying to use her to score points,” the operative raged.
“Cuomo uses black women when it’s convenient — and attacks them when it’s not.”
Political insiders told The Post that news of the probe, which was confirmed by the Associated Press and NBC News, could very well help Cuomo in the June 24 Democratic primary – even as legal experts warn the mayoral frontrunner potentially faces serious charges --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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