Hmmmm... Imteresting - Governor Cuomo's campaign contributors

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As always, follow the money - from Yahoo News:

Andrew Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations
As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.

Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.

Critics say Cuomo removed a key deterrent against nursing home and hospital corporations cutting corners in ways that jeopardize lives. As those critics now try to repeal the provision during this final week of Albany’s legislative session, they assert that data prove such immunity is correlating to higher nursing home death rates during the pandemic – both in New York and in other states enacting similar immunity policies.

Hiding it in the middle of a budget bill? He pulled the same shit to get around the Executive Order against sanctuary cities. Class act. Will people remember this in 2022? Hope so.

He is representing the big money industries, not the people of New York - they are just pawns. Rubes.
Give them bread and circuses and then ignore them - ignore the little people.

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