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cajunrevenge
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Uh, you voted for one. Like Trump I think they should both have their day in court. If there is one thing I like its elected officials going to prison.
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goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
i already know you don't like democracy and want your cult to rule
didn't need you to hint at saying it here with the post i quoted
acesfull86
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https://reason.com/2021/08/13/andrew-cuomos-other-pandemic-scandal/
Before we say bon voyage to the disgraced governor, it's worth noting another of his pandemic policies that has proven to be a massive scandal: the disastrous rollout of New York's Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP).
The last two COVID relief bills passed by Congress in December 2020 and March 2021 collectively appropriated $46 billion to cover the massive amount of unpaid rent that tenants have accumulated during the pandemic.
By the end of January 2021, the federal government had released close to $25 billion of that money—including about $1.2 billion to New York state's ERAP. Subsequent federal grants and state money would fund the program to the tune of $2.7 billion, according to City Limits.
And yet by the end of June, New York had, per U.S. Treasury Department data, managed to spend $0 of its rent relief funds. A month later only $1.2 million had gone out the door.
A major reason for the slow dispersal of funds is that the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)—which is responsible for administering the program—took until June 2021 to start accepting applications. When it did get an online application portal up and running, tenants and landlords were met with crashing websites, and requests for documents they didn't have.
Applications would take hours to complete, yet the online web portal lacked a feature allowing people to save their progress and try again later. People who called into a hotline to report problems said that staff often had no answers for them.
This disastrous performance has gotten state lawmakers to start scrutinizing a $115 million no-bid contract that OTDA awarded to the Illinois-based company Guidehouse to set up ERAP.
Normally state contracts over $50,000 would have to be approved by the state comptroller, but the since-expired emergency declared by Cuomo in response to COVID-19 suspended those rules.
Expediting the ability of state agencies to sign contracts is a standard feature of emergency orders signed by governors during the pandemic. Nevertheless, the Associated Press reported in July that Guidehouse hired a Cuomo adviser shortly after winning its state contract, which has raised subsequent ethics questions.
Before we say bon voyage to the disgraced governor, it's worth noting another of his pandemic policies that has proven to be a massive scandal: the disastrous rollout of New York's Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP).
The last two COVID relief bills passed by Congress in December 2020 and March 2021 collectively appropriated $46 billion to cover the massive amount of unpaid rent that tenants have accumulated during the pandemic.
By the end of January 2021, the federal government had released close to $25 billion of that money—including about $1.2 billion to New York state's ERAP. Subsequent federal grants and state money would fund the program to the tune of $2.7 billion, according to City Limits.
And yet by the end of June, New York had, per U.S. Treasury Department data, managed to spend $0 of its rent relief funds. A month later only $1.2 million had gone out the door.
A major reason for the slow dispersal of funds is that the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)—which is responsible for administering the program—took until June 2021 to start accepting applications. When it did get an online application portal up and running, tenants and landlords were met with crashing websites, and requests for documents they didn't have.
Applications would take hours to complete, yet the online web portal lacked a feature allowing people to save their progress and try again later. People who called into a hotline to report problems said that staff often had no answers for them.
This disastrous performance has gotten state lawmakers to start scrutinizing a $115 million no-bid contract that OTDA awarded to the Illinois-based company Guidehouse to set up ERAP.
Normally state contracts over $50,000 would have to be approved by the state comptroller, but the since-expired emergency declared by Cuomo in response to COVID-19 suspended those rules.
Expediting the ability of state agencies to sign contracts is a standard feature of emergency orders signed by governors during the pandemic. Nevertheless, the Associated Press reported in July that Guidehouse hired a Cuomo adviser shortly after winning its state contract, which has raised subsequent ethics questions.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Weren't you like a week ago or so talking about how insanity and genius are close? So you're kind of making this argument for me in multiple ways. Got to love it.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Kathy C. Hochul, a former congresswoman from Buffalo, became the 57th governor of New York early Tuesday, making history as the first woman to ascend to the state’s highest office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/nyregion/kathy-hochul-governor-ny.html
Attorney General Letitia James and her office are to be commended for what appears to be a thorough, fair and relatively quick investigation of the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/nyregion/kathy-hochul-governor-ny.html
Attorney General Letitia James and her office are to be commended for what appears to be a thorough, fair and relatively quick investigation of the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo.
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
She's from Buffalo. The second city, but often a neglected one in New York. People from Buffalo have a certain sensibility that is different from those from the city.
Most importantly she is not Cuomo and that will engender a lot of good will for a few months. Albany is a cesspool (the long-time former speaker of the assembly and former majority leader in the senate are both in jail at the moment). The good news is that she is not part of that culture. But she will have to learn how to deal with it.
Correction: the former majority leader was released early due to contracting covid. He is serving the rest of his prison term under house arrest.
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Successful to me would be having a productive relationship with local officials. Eric Abrams, incoming mayor of the city, will need her help to implement certain parts of his platform, especially with respect to increasing the availability of affordable housing. Cuomo and DeBlasio were famous for their petty games (mostly due to Cuomo). If Hochul and Adams can set that nonsense aside they can accomplish some things that will actually improve people's lives. There are also some obscure agencies (the Port Authority, the Metropolitan Transit Authority) that are very important and over which the governor has a lot of power. Cuomo did not always exercise his powers over those agencies in a constructive manner.
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Tapate50
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acesfull86
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https://nypost.com/2021/12/05/chris-cuomo-faces-sexual-misconduct-claim-from-ex-abc-colleague-sources/
CNN fired Chris Cuomo after learning he’d been accused of sexual misconduct by a woman who formerly worked with him at ABC, sources told The Post on Sunday.
The unidentified woman is set to be interviewed by outside lawyers hired by CNN this week, pending an agreement to keep her identity and everything she says confidential, sources said.
Cuomo, 51, hasn’t been formally told the accuser’s name but is believed to have figured it out based on information in a letter her lawyer sent to CNN last week, sources said.
The woman was previously described only as “a former junior colleague at another network” by the New York Times, which first reported on the new allegations after Cuomo’s termination Saturday.
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Man, do these guys suck or what? Figured Chris was fired after the shenanigans he was trying to pull to support Andrew, which led to his suspension, but it turns out a sexual misconduct accusation is what finished him off.
CNN fired Chris Cuomo after learning he’d been accused of sexual misconduct by a woman who formerly worked with him at ABC, sources told The Post on Sunday.
The unidentified woman is set to be interviewed by outside lawyers hired by CNN this week, pending an agreement to keep her identity and everything she says confidential, sources said.
Cuomo, 51, hasn’t been formally told the accuser’s name but is believed to have figured it out based on information in a letter her lawyer sent to CNN last week, sources said.
The woman was previously described only as “a former junior colleague at another network” by the New York Times, which first reported on the new allegations after Cuomo’s termination Saturday.
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Man, do these guys suck or what? Figured Chris was fired after the shenanigans he was trying to pull to support Andrew, which led to his suspension, but it turns out a sexual misconduct accusation is what finished him off.
