Business owners throughout New York are suffering and struggling to pay bills and feed their families, largely due to the COVID policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Just this week, he reinstated the ban on indoor dining.
None of this is going to prevent Cuomo from celebrating, however. This week, he is holding a virtual reception as a campaign fundraiser with Hollywood celebrities, a key constituency of the Democrat party.
Janice Dean is the FOX News meteorologist who lost her in-laws to COVID in a rest home:
Mary Kay Linge of the New York Post has details:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo throwing virtual birthday party to raise campaign cashPretty steep for a Zoom call.Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to fatten his campaign coffers with an online birthday shindig that will cost supporters up to $10,000 to — virtually — rub shoulders with him and a few of his favorite celebs.The Thursday evening event, billed as a “Virtual Birthday and Holiday Reception,” will feature appearances by Robert De Niro, Rosie Perez, Whoopi Goldberg, Henry Winkler and Ben Stiller, according to an invite obtained by The Post.It comes more than a week after the governor’s Dec. 6 birthday, when he turned 63.High rollers who raise or donate $10,000 will get a code to join a half-hour pre-party Dec. 17, along with “flex tickets” that friends can use to join the main reception later on.
This goes way beyond hypocrisy. It’s outrageous, and people should be outraged.
Some of Cuomo’s defenders on Twitter noted that the event is virtual, but that’s hardly the point.
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