Janice Dean reacts to Cuomo’s Emmy award, ‘leadership’ during coronavirus pandemic
Not everybody believes that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given an award-winning efficiency during the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York governor will receive the International Emmy Founder’s Award, in recognition for his management and “effective use of television during the pandemic.”
“The Governor’s 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure,” stated International Academy President & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner. “People around the world tuned in to find out what was going on, and New York tough became a symbol of the determination to fight back.”
In this June 15 picture, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo removes a masks as he holds a information convention in Tarrytown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
While Cuomo’s has garnered some plaudits, loads of persons are not impressed.
Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean thinks the governor wants to do extra.
“I’m not surprised at this point,” Dean instructed Fox News. “When he sold a book during the pandemic – that shocked me, but it’s what I’ve come to expect from this governor.”
Janice Dean, senior Meteorologist for Fox News
Dean speculated that Cuomo “likes the attention,” and that it comes along with his love of celeb.
“He’s taking a victory lap,” Dean added, at a time when individuals nonetheless demand solutions from the governor.
Dean lost her elderly in-laws to COVID-19 after Cuomo mandated that nursing properties settle for COVID-19 sufferers launched in hospitals.
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Cuomo insists that New York’s unique nursing house coverage was in step with a March 13 directive from the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But that’s little consolation to those that misplaced family members in consequence.
“The number is possibly twice as many because they didn’t report the deaths as COVID-related,” Dean stated. “All I want is an honest accounting.”
In the previous, Dean has argued that Cuomo didn’t present precise numbers as a result of, “New York state does not count the numbers that we lost in hospitals from nursing homes.”
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Dean was set to testify upstate during an investigation into Cuomo’s nursing house coverage, however she was prevented from testifying – largely, she believes as a result of her story “made people uncomfortable.”
She as a substitute testified at a New York Senate Republican discussion board, which “just wasn’t the same,” she said.
“But if even one more person hears about this story because I’ve spoken up, then it’s worth talking about.”
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Dean does not believe she is alone anymore: Following the announcement of Cuomo’s award, Dean noted that a lot of people spoke up on Twitter to criticize the decision.
“I think people are starting to take notice,” Dean said.
Many media members have found fault with the award.
“I’m starting to suppose most of society’s “awards” aren’t actually provided in recognition of particular acts of excellence anymore,” Commentary magazine associate editor Noah Rothman tweeted.
“Almost each main award you possibly can consider has turn into primarily aspirational,” he added in a separate reply. “Hopefully, some day, you find yourself retroactively incomes it.”
“This award is smart as a result of Cuomo is not really a reliable, empathic Governor — he simply performs one on TV,” self-described former Justice Democrat and If Not Now co-founder Max Berger tweeted.
“This is Obama Nobel Prize stuff,” Daily Beast political editor Sam Stein tweeted, referring to the former president’s award, which he received after his first year in the White House.
“Can I’ve an Emmy for utilizing tv to strive to clarify to individuals what Governor Cuomo was yelling about on the press about at his briefing on Wednesday or did I not use sufficient Power Point,” NY1 reporter Jillian Jorgensen tweeted, referring to Cuomo’s bizarre reaction to a question over school closures.
The group Voices for Seniors, which was founded by sisters whose parents died from COVID-19 in nursing homes, also was shocked by the decision.
“We are surprised and insulted that the National Academy would take into account Gov. Cuomo for an Emmy Award ignoring the truth that tens of hundreds of New Yorkers bought urns,” co-founder Vivian Zayas told Fox News. “Our susceptible seniors are nonetheless dying immediately and his insurance policies have ravaged households without end.”
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Cuomo, in addition to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, even have been slammed for his or her crackdown of Orthodox Jews and latest closure of NYC faculties.
