{"id":142919,"date":"2021-02-17T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142919"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:58:21","slug":"cuomo-lights-up-democrat-lawmaker-who-he-allegedly-threatened-possibly-engaged-in-illegal-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-lights-up-democrat-lawmaker-who-he-allegedly-threatened-possibly-engaged-in-illegal-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Lights Up Democrat Lawmaker Who He Allegedly Threatened: Possibly Engaged In \u2018Illegal\u2019 \u2018Racket\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\">28<\/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%2Fcuomo-lights-up-democrat-lawmaker-who-he-allegedly-threatened-possibly-engaged-in-illegal-racket%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=142919&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\/RK-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed a state-level lawmaker in New York, Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim, after Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-lawmaker-claims-governor-cuomo-threatened-to-destroy-him-over-nursing-home-criticisms\">claimed<\/a> that Cuomo threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him in a phone call that came in response to Kim publicly criticizing Cuomo\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office more than me, has had a long and hostile relationship with Assemblyman Ron Kim,\u201d Cuomo said at a press conference on Wednesday. \u201cIt goes back to the issue on nail salons. We passed a bill that we worked very hard to protect nail salon workers who were often victimized by businesses, exposed to dangerous chemicals, wage theft was prevalent. We passed a bill, Assemblyman Kim supported the bill, he then flipped 180 degrees because the nail salon business owners found the bill onerous. There was a big New York Times story on it at the time that said basically, and I don\u2019t want to paraphrase a Times story, but it basically said he supported the bill, he signed the bill, he was at the bill signing, then the business people in his community got upset, and then he changed his position, actually used his lobbying firm to lobby on behalf of the business owners, continued to use that lobbying firm and that political operative as his own, and then raised money from those business owners and continues to and I believe it was unethical if not illegal and I believe it\u2019s a continuing racket because he is still doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe euphemism is pay to play, and I believe that, as I said, Mr. Kim acted unethically if not illegally on that matter and my office is in that story, so it\u2019s been a long-running situation, but as far as his point that we didn\u2019t provide the Department of Justice with information, that is 100 percent wrong, he knows it,\u201d Cuomo continued. \u201cWe paused the State Legislature\u2019s request with information, which I\u2019ve now said 15 times, so we could comply with the Department of Justice information and the Assembly and Senate knew we paused the State legislative and there is no obstruction of justice in not providing the State Legislature with information, and they knew about it so that is 100 percent wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the suggestion that the immunity bill for hospitals and nursing homes was passed because of campaign contributions, which is the allegation against Mr. Kim, that bill was passed in the budget by the Assembly and the Senate, so if he wants to accuse his Assembly colleagues and Senate colleagues of the same conduct he\u2019s been accused of, pay to play, that\u2019s what his doing,\u201d Cuomo continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso with Mr. Kim, he has a meeting last week with the legislators and members of my staff. On the tape at the meeting, he says positive things. There\u2019s then a story that moves in the New York Post where he says the exact opposite and is very negative in quotes,\u201d Cuomo continued. \u201cI called him up and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t understand, you were positive \u2014 you said positive things in the meeting \u2014 and then the Post has you saying negative things.\u2019 He told me, \u2018the Post has misquoted me and I called the Post reporter and she refused to correct it.\u2019 I said, \u2018really?\u2019 \u2018Yes, she refuses to correct it.\u2019 I said, \u2018Well, my suggestion is, you then do a statement where you put out your correct statement because, you know, if the reporter doesn\u2019t want to include it \u2014 fine. Then do a statement that corrects it.\u2019 \u2018Yes, I will do that,\u2019 he says and then he never did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much for Mr. Kim\u2019s credibility, and I said to him on the phone, \u2018You know, there is still integrity and honor and decency in politics,\u2019 but that\u2019s that for Mr. Kim,\u201d Cuomo concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NY Gov. Cuomo holds COVID briefing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8j1kkbEPG1A?start=927&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span>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<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed a state-level lawmaker in New York, Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim, after Kim claimed that Cuomo threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him in a phone call &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181448,"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\/RK-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cuomo Lights Up Democrat Lawmaker Who He Allegedly Threatened: Possibly Engaged In \u2018Illegal\u2019 \u2018Racket\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RK-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cuomo Lights Up Democrat Lawmaker Who He Allegedly Threatened: Possibly Engaged In \u2018Illegal\u2019 \u2018Racket\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}