Democratic New York State Secretary Ron Kim said Tuesday that he feels “lifted” to playfully entertain CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on the air with his brother, Governor Andrew Cuomo, while the death toll in New York’s senior care settings has risen.
“I was on the ground screaming at my voters who could not see their loved ones, who knew COVID was sending out, and they literally saw their loved ones dying alone from pain and pain without burial,” Kim told Fox. Across America “is Jimmy Failla on Fox News Radio.
‘I turned on the TV and I saw his brother [Chris Cuomo] and Andrew jokes crack. I stopped watching TV for six months, “Kim remembered.” I could not accept it because I sometimes felt lifted and was like, ‘Am I living in a different reality? What is happening?'”
Kim, who represents part of Queens, is one of several Democrats who criticized Cuomo’s order that nursing homes accept coronavirus-positive patients who are released from hospitals. That directive was implemented on 25 March last year and repealed in May.
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His comments come a day after Chris Cuomo told “Cuomo Prime Time” viewers that he would not discuss the growing sexual harassment scandal surrounding the governor of New York.
The younger Cuomo faces intense setbacks as he repeatedly offered Andrew a platform in his CNN program to appeal to viewers by conducting softball conversations on air, and the 15,000 elderly people living in New York -nursing homes died, largely ignored.
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“I literally felt so demoralized and my constituents, I have re-election, and they kept saying to me, ‘Do not attack the governor. He votes in 80%, 90%. You will lose your re-election if you attack the governor. , ” Kim said.
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“I did not care because people are dying. People need justice, people need truth. And it was not just me. There were many other courageous, brave civil servants who spoke at the same time. But how do you compete? If you ‘ does a brother on CNN have what you cover every night on national TV? ‘