{"id":1996038,"date":"2023-08-09T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:11:14","slug":"andrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo accuser criticizes NY lawmaker&#8217;s claim of 200 ethnic backgrounds."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fandrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds%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=1996038&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--><h2>Aide Compares Assemblywoman&#8217;s Social Media\u200c Post to \u2064Cuomo&#8217;s Controversial Statement<\/h2>\n<p>A former aide of former New\u200b York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has drawn a comparison between a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds\/\" title=\"Cuomo accuser criticizes NY lawmaker's claim of 200 ethnic backgrounds.\">controversial social \u200dmedia post<\/a> from a state assemblywoman and a controversial statement made by Cuomo himself. According to \u200cthe aide,\u2062 they both took away &#8220;different\u200d lessons&#8221; from their time\u200d working for Cuomo.<\/p>\n<h3>Assemblywoman&#8217;s Bold Statement on Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>New York Democratic\u2064 lawmaker Jenifer\u2063 Rajkumar recently made a \u200dbold statement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> platform<\/a> X (formerly known \u2062as Twitter). She claimed to embody all 200\u200b distinct ethnic origins that make up the \u2062diverse population of New York City.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;NYC is home\u200b to people from over 200 distinct ethnic origins. And I am \u200d <strong>ALL<\/strong> of them,&#8221; Rajkumar, who represents Queens, replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Aide \u200cDraws Parallels to Cuomo&#8217;s Controversial Remarks<\/h3>\n<p>Lindsey Boylan,\u2064 a former aide who accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in 2018, pointed out the resemblance between Rajkumar&#8217;s post and a controversial statement made by the former governor at a press conference in \u200c2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We both \u200cworked for Andrew Cuomo. I\u2019ve known for some time that we took away entirely different \u2063lessons,&#8221; Boylan posted alongside an image of\u2063 Cuomo&#8217;s archived speech. &#8220;This barely scratches the surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Question from Reporter Sparks Assemblywoman&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Rajkumar&#8217;s post was in response to a\u2064 question from a local reporter, who asked whether she was an \u200b&#8221;honorary&#8221; member of every nationality in the city due to her frequent \u200cvisits to the mayor&#8217;s mansion. \u200bThis question arose after New\u200c York City&#8217;s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, referred to Rajkumar as an &#8220;honorary Dominican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Rajkumar&#8217;s Background and Political Roles<\/h3>\n<p>Rajkumar, who was chosen by \u200bCuomo to serve as his director of immigration affairs\u2062 and special counsel for the New York Department of State\u200b in 2017, was\u2062 elected to the State Assembly in 2020. She was also selected by Mayor Adams\u2062 to be part of his transition team when he assumed office in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO\u2062 READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former aide of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo compared a state assemblywoman&#8217;s controversial social media post to Cuomo&#8217;s statement, suggesting they drew &#8220;different lessons&#8221; from him. NY Democrat Jenifer Rajkumar, who claims to embody 200 diverse ethnic origins, made this assertion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996038","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=1996038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}