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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch one of Gov. Cuomo's news conferences...
No shouting, no jockeying on a stage. They are seated and keep social distancing at the dais. He goes through each item calmly explaining, scolds those not following in an adult manner....almost an entire hour and I learned just how active our Gov. is . He reminded NY'ers to at least smile and that we would all get through this together like we did after 911. Face it he has a tough crowd to cater to but I've seen some can't stand him, but he is doing a wonderful job at leading,comments.
He asking mental health experts, dr.s therapists, etc to volunteer to man an electronic help board, to help people through the crisis. If enough volunteer it will be up and running shortly. He knows people and this is an outreach, an ear to listen to.
Got a question the Gov. says call, we will try to answer them all.
[link:https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home|]
Oh he's listed all the stuff on the way from 6000 vents to millions of masks, the garment district in NY along with designers are banding together to make face shields and gowns, etc.
Meanwhile the Trump shit-show is on the TV with rants, taunts, pointing, what little information gleaned is from those having to correct the misstatements from the Dear Leader.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)challenge now. He's doing his job and showing us just how the artificial President should be doing his.
There is, of course, absolutely no chance that the pumpkinfaced prick will pick up on any of this.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)Talking about social distancing and not playing basketball he says, "you can't play basketball 6 feet apart. You can, but then you're a lousy basketball player."
Injecting a little well placed humor helps get us all through this. I enjoy listening to him, unlike Trump, which is torture listening to him.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Practical, inspirational without blue skying, informative, authoritative and the absolute antithesis of the bumbling fool in the WH.
Danmel
(4,912 posts)He has genuine empathy, he loves his family and knows that other people love their families too.
He can state scary facts while calming people down.
I work for a NY state elected official. I have had my moments of frustration with the governor. But I have always known he is a smart and decent person. I also want to say that his staff has been very responsive, helpful and accessible under extraordinarily challenging circumstances.
The state had 180,000 claims for unemployment insurance in ONE HOUR!
Even that pendajo Lee Zeldin complimented Cuomo.
He is an exceptional leader.