{"id":137621,"date":"2021-02-16T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=137621"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:13:11","slug":"top-florida-democrat-on-gov-cuomos-cover-up-we-would-never-have-gotten-away-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-florida-democrat-on-gov-cuomos-cover-up-we-would-never-have-gotten-away-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Florida Democrat On Gov. Cuomo\u2019s \u2018Cover Up\u2019: \u2018We Would Never Have Gotten Away With That\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-florida-democrat-on-gov-cuomos-cover-up-we-would-never-have-gotten-away-with-that%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=137621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jared-Moskowitz.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A top Florida Democrat who led the state\u2019s pandemic response is warning his party against believing conspiracies about Florida\u2019s handling of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Moskowitz announced on Monday that he is retiring as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which he has led since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appointed Moskowitz to the post in January 2019. In his outgoing remarks, Moskowitz defended Florida\u2019s pandemic response while contrasting it with New York\u2019s, which has been routinely praised in the media and by awards commissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may see a conspiracy theory and you want it to be true and you believe it to be true and you forward it to try to make it be true. But that doesn\u2019t make it true,\u201d Moskowitz told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/florida-playbook\/2021\/02\/16\/moskowitz-issues-warning-to-democrats-desantis-rise-as-2024-contender-florida-legislators-may-consider-curbs-on-emergency-power-491754\">Politico<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen this, quite frankly, within the last four years with the previous administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Democrats should not be so naive to think that they don\u2019t accidentally participate in things like that \u2014 for instance when they forward things around that falsely claim Florida has more deaths than New York when it comes to coronavirus. That is just not supported by the data,\u201d Moskowitz continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in fact, for all the stuff about how Florida was not being transparent, it\u2019s not Florida that\u2019s in the national news. It\u2019s New York, that\u2019s in the national news, and it was New York that had a cover up for the last six months, and hid 50% of the nursing home deaths. We would never have gotten away with that for 15 days in Florida, let alone six months,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is facing significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/betrayal-of-public-trust-cuomo-faces-calls-for-accountability-resignation-after-top-aide-admits-cover-up\">backlash<\/a> from Republican and Democratic lawmakers in his state after one of his top aides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-cuomos-top-aide-says-new-york-hid-nursing-home-death-toll\">admitted<\/a> that his administration hid the true impact of COVID-19 on the state\u2019s nursing homes to avoid a federal investigation. Cuomo later asserted that he had been transparent about the nursing home data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cuomo-blames-toxic-political-environment-amid-scandal-deaths-in-nursing-homes-accurately-reported\">claiming<\/a> in a Monday press conference that \u201call the deaths in the nursing homes and in the hospitals were always fully publicly and accurately reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers were the numbers, always,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cPeople did request information beyond the place of death, not just, where they, how many in a nursing home, not just how many in a hospital. They did request different categorizations beyond those counts, how many people died, who were in a nursing home, but then went to a hospital? How many people died, who were in a hospital, but then went back to a nursing home? How do you count presumed COVID deaths? Everyone was busy. Everybody was here every day. We\u2019re in the midst of managing a pandemic. There was a delay in providing the press and the public all that additional information. There was a delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video conference call last week, Cuomo top aide Melissa DeRosa told Democratic lawmakers that the governor had withheld data from them out of fear of sparking a federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd basically, we froze,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause then we were in a position where we weren\u2019t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren\u2019t sure if there was going to be an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Florida Democrat who led the state\u2019s pandemic response is warning his party against believing conspiracies about Florida\u2019s handling of COVID-19. Jared Moskowitz announced on Monday that he is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181352,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jared-Moskowitz.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Top Florida Democrat On Gov. 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