Cuomo s aura of invincibility crumbles under weight of scandals
Ryan Teague Beckwith and Keshia Clukey, Bloomberg
March 3, 2021
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Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, speaks during a news conference in New York on Oct. 5, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Jeenah Moon.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has dominated New York state politics for more than a decade and enjoyed a rising national profile, is seeing his power limited by fellow Democrats as dual scandals raise pressure on him to resign.
A pugilistic Democratic governor with a reputation for getting his way, Cuomo has now been forced to submit to an outside investigation of sexual harassment claims while he faces a separate inquiry over accusations of a possible coverup regarding the number of Covid-19 deaths in the state s nursing homes.
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Asian Americans are victims of hate crimes since coronavirus outbreak. N.J. congressman Kim says action is needed.
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
Rep. Andy Kim, surveying beach erosion with Mantaloking Mayor E. Laurence White on Feb. 12, 2021, said action was needed to stem the increase in attacks against Asian Americans.
Noah K. Murray for | NJ Advance
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The same message was delivered to a Asian American shopping at a Bergen County supermarket and one riding an Essex County bus: COVID-19 is your fault.
“They were the only Asian Americans in that setting and they were both verbally attacked and accused of being the cause of COVID’s rise,” recounted Jun Choi, a former mayor of Edison and chair of Jersey Promise, an advocacy group for Asian Americans in the state.