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Adrienne Adams: “Cuomo cut funding to local hospitals and let his rivalry…”

Featuring: Adrienne Adams, Democratic | Speaker of the New York City Council, Former Candidate, New York State Senate

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Adrienne Adams Criticizes Andrew Cuomo's Leadership Amid Vaccine Distribution Controversy

Published | Video Starts at 00:16

His eyes said, please don't leave me today. Adrian Adams linking her dad's death to the leadership of mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, who was then governor. She says Cuomo cut funding to local hospitals and let his rivalry with then Mayor de Blasio govern his decisions. To damage him. Andrew Cuomo punished New Yorkers by delaying and denying us life saving vaccines. Adams and other critics accused Cuomo of delaying the opening of Citi Field as a vaccine site to embarrass de Blasio. (00:16–00:25)

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Asserts that Andrew Cuomo cut funding to local hospitals and let his rivalry with de Blasio influence decisions.

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