Fox News meteorologist and author Janice Dean slammed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over news that he will be hosting a $10,000 per ticket fundraiser for his re-election later this month.
The event is being dubbed a “summer reception” with the governor and offers single tickets at the aforementioned price, as well as dual admission at a cost of $15,000.
“You. Can’t. Make. It. Up,” Dean seethed in a tweet sharing the report. “[$10,000] to meet the Luv Guv in person this month.”
The reference to Cuomo as the ‘Luv Guv’ is a likely jab at both he and his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who helped hype the Governor during the pandemic by playfully referring to his single status.
“I am the Luv Guv,” the Democrat said to his little brother at one point. “I’m a cool dude in a loose mood, you know that. I just say let it go, just go with the flow, baby.”
In a subsequent tweet hours later, Dean referred to Cuomo as “despicable.”
The $10,000 per ticket event does not have a specific location listed on the invitation but does indicate it will be held somewhere in New York City.
Despicable.
Andrew Cuomo to Host $10,000 per Ticket Campaign Fundraiser in NYC https://t.co/a5N48E2BKU
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) June 2, 2021
RELATED: Bombshell Report Indicates Cuomo Aides Repeatedly Blocked Release Of Nursing Home Deaths
The extravagant fundraiser comes as Andrew Cuomo’s political future is in turmoil, the subject of multiple investigations and impeachment inquiries.
The scandals embroiling him are wide-ranging and numerous, including:
Dutchess County Executive and 2018 Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro joked that the fundraiser might well just be going to Cuomo’s legal defense fund.
There’s a typo: “Cuomo to host $10,000 a ticket legal defense fund fundraiser.”
There. Fixed it. https://t.co/mT8dm7FIwt
— Marc Molinaro (@marcmolinaro) June 1, 2021
Dean has been a leading voice on the nursing home scandal involving Governor Cuomo, her in-laws being the sad and unfortunate victims of COVID-19, where nursing homes in New York played a significant part.
Cuomo issued an executive order last March forcing care facilities to take in COVID-positive patients. The order was not reversed for months.
A bombshell report from the New York Times in April led Dean to suggest many people in the Cuomo administration belong in prison.
The Times report indicated top aides to the Governor overruled his own health experts, blocked the release of the pandemic’s true death toll numbers at nursing homes for five months, and did so all while they were helping him write a book using state resources.
“I really feel like he should go to jail,” Dean said at the time. “And all these people surrounding him that covered this up for so many months, they should go to jail.”
Maybe a good old fashioned protest outside this cash grab at the end of the month? https://t.co/K0kPACihXS
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) June 2, 2021
Dean, along with Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin, had some ideas for Cuomo’s $10,000 per ticket fundraiser.
“Maybe a good old-fashioned protest outside this cash grab at the end of the month?” wondered Dean.
McLaughlin tweeted, “Someone should start a GoFundMe and get a ticket for [Janice Dean] … Now THAT would be interesting.”
Someone should start a Go Fund Me and get a ticket for @JaniceDean.
Now THAT would be interesting. pic.twitter.com/zNmDX7kOQF— Steve McLaughlin (@SteveMcNY) June 2, 2021
Dean responded to McLaughlin’s suggestion saying she would “definitely call and find out where the event is.”
She later advised that Governor Cuomo, instead of holding a $10,000 per ticket fundraiser for re-election, should meet with the families of the victims of his nursing home scandal.
“I think he should meet with many of us who lost loved ones in nursing homes. But he’s a coward,” lamented Dean. “He would never show up.”
State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is also conducting an investigation of allegations that the Governor used state resources and state employees to write his book on leadership during the pandemic.
The book earned Cuomo a $5.1 million payday.
The Albany Times Union is accusing the Cuomo administration of refusing to release records involving the book.
What have you got to hide, @NYGovCuomo?
Cuomo refuses to release records related to his 5.1 million dollar blood money book.
Grateful to the @timesunion for their reporting. The truth will come out eventually.
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) June 1, 2021
The New York Post is reporting that Cuomo’s fundraiser is the first since being hit with state and federal investigations.
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A bombshell report from the New York Times indicates top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo overruled his own health experts, blocking the release of the pandemic’s true death toll numbers at nursing homes, and did so all while they were helping him write a book.
The crux of the Times column refers to the length of time aides spent in trying to cover up the number of deaths in nursing homes – five months – a particularly sore spot with the governor who had issued an executive order forcing care facilities to take in COVID-positive patients.
The order was not reversed for months.
Cuomo aides clearly sensed the fallout, doing their best to minimize the numbers by not counting seniors who were transported to hospitals and died there.
“By the time the policy was rescinded less than two months later, it had become clear that not all the deaths were being included in that tally: Those who died after being transferred to hospitals were not counted as nursing home deaths,” the Times writes.
When Cuomo’s own top health officials tried to get a more accurate count, his aides rebuffed them time and again. In fact, they fought release of the true numbers for five months, according to the report, a “far greater (effort) than previously known.”
Cuomo was suppressing the nursing home data at the time he was writing (and selling) a book about what a great job he did.
If that’s not a scandal, I give up because that should be enough to get rid of any leader without hesitation. https://t.co/y2jwko5QW9
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 28, 2021
While critics were noting the role of Governor Cuomo’s nursing home executive order in a large number of elderly deaths during the pandemic, the state Health Department was preparing a report on the matter in the spring of 2020.
Secretary to the Governor, Melissa DeRosa, according to an email reviewed by the New York Times, told health officials: “We are getting anxious over here on this report.”
That report was eventually published in July but contained an explicit quantifier that the order forcing the care facilities to take on COVID-positive patients was “not a driver of nursing home infections or fatalities.”
It also included a much lower number – not counting hospital deaths – in the report that the Times states was “rewritten several times by senior advisers to Mr. Cuomo.”
The department report listed just over 6,400 deaths. As of this month, more than 15,500 nursing home residents died from COVID-19.
Enraging and unforgivable.https://t.co/VOC5zUmCEM
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 28, 2021
In February, the New York Post revealed that DeRosa told leading Democrats that they tried to suppress the numbers because the administration feared the data could “be used against us” by the Justice Department saying, “basically, we froze.”
“We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” she said.
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out https://t.co/lbH53CORKv pic.twitter.com/OX94iKM0gn
— New York Post (@nypost) February 11, 2021
The New York Times reported in January that attorney general Letitia James, a Democrat, accused Cuomo and his administration, particularly officials at the State Health Department, of undercounting COVID deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%.
A subsequent report by the Wall Street Journal in early March accused the aides of a very explicit cover-up by the Cuomo administration in the nursing home scandal.
“Cuomo’s top advisers successfully pushed state health officials to strip a public report of data showing that more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19 than the administration had acknowledged,” they detailed.
Much of the pressure by the Health Department to suppress the numbers on the nursing home deaths was being applied by the administration itself.
“Aides overruled state health officials on releasing the figures over the span of at least five months, The Times reports,” according to The Hill.
“The effort included halting the publication of a scientific paper, which included the true tally, and the sending of two letters drafted by the Health Department and intended for state lawmakers.”
.@NYGovCuomo and his administration covered up the nursing home deaths for months, stonewalled the true numbers from being released on several reports including from the New York State Heath department and lied every time when asked. pic.twitter.com/e75j6rXyAS
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) April 29, 2021
The New York Times report notes that much of the effort to halt the release of the true figures in the Cuomo nursing home scandal revolved around the Governor’s efforts to write a book celebrating his ‘leadership’ during the pandemic.
“The actions coincided with the period in which Mr. Cuomo was pitching and then writing a book on the pandemic, with the assistance of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and others,” the report reads.
State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is currently conducting an investigation of allegations that the Governor used state resources and state employees to write his book on which he received a multimillion-dollar advance.
Part 2 pic.twitter.com/vLpAnVJlEU
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) April 29, 2021
Fox News meteorologist and author Janice Dean, a leading voice on the nursing home scandal involving Governor Cuomo, expressed her optimism that justice may finally be served.
Dean’s in-laws were the unfortunate victims of COVID-19, where nursing homes in New York played a significant part.
“I feel like all of these months, close to a year now, it feels like it finally is happening, that all of the things we’ve been yelling about and trying to shine a light on, it’s finally happening,” Dean said.
Many of the things I’ve covered here at The Political Insider as well, things that should have been revealed much earlier if not for a complicit New York media that spent more time fawning over Cuomo than reporting on him.
On May 18th, nearly one full year ago, I labeled Cuomo’s executive order on nursing homes a “scandal” and noted at the time that the Governor seemed uninterested in accountability.
He even suggested it wasn’t his fault because “older people … are going to die.”
They all should go to jail. All. Of. Them. https://t.co/dLMQOZ7ErR
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) April 28, 2021
In an interview with Fox News, Dean didn’t hold back on what she felt should happen to the governor and those in his administration complicit in the nursing home cover-up.
“I really feel like he should go to jail,” she said. “And all these people surrounding him that covered this up for so many months, they should go to jail.”
The following is a list of scandals in which Cuomo is currently embroiled, most of which have resulted in investigations, calls for his resignation, and impeachment inquiries:
In an incredibly cold and callous comment last May, Cuomo snapped at a reporter for asking about grieving families of nursing home patients seeking justice.
“What is justice? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Nobody,” he rationalized. “Mother nature? God? Where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus.”
It’s time somebody from the administration is prosecuted, if not the governor himself. That would be justice.
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Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney refused to rule out a future run for President of the United States when asked by the New York Post.
“I’m not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time,” she is quoted as saying.
Her coy remarks may not be referencing 2024 though, as she believes the GOP already has a number of solid contenders in the next presidential election cycle.
“I think we have a huge number of interesting candidates, but I think that we’re going to be in a good position to be able to take the White House,” Cheney said.
Rep. Liz Cheney not ruling out 2024 presidential run https://t.co/xS3JkoLH67 pic.twitter.com/nLoVxNuyvM
— New York Post (@nypost) April 26, 2021
RELATED: Liz Cheney ‘Would Not’ Support Trump In 2024 — We Can’t ‘Embrace Insurrection’
Cheney, the lead Republican of 10 in the House who joined Democrats in the impeachment of Donald Trump following the Capitol protests in January, continued her fixation on that singular event.
Cheney said any of her colleagues who participated in questioning certification of the electoral college results should not be eligible to run.
“I do think that some of our candidates who led the charge, particularly the senators who led the unconstitutional charge, not to certify the election, you know, in my view that’s disqualifying,” she told the New York Post.
This is just Liz Cheney giving herself an “out” as her re-election primary approaches and she finally realizes she’s
.
My guess is they’ve received new polling showing this exact point, hence the 2024 tease. https://t.co/fpK3emo3P6
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) April 26, 2021
Senators Ted Cruz (TX) and Josh Hawley (MO) both took part in objecting to the certification of the 2020 election results for President, something Liz Cheney and the media have claimed led to an “insurrection.”
I can only assume this means that Lincoln Project Liz is planning a primary challenge to Joe Biden for the Dem nomination because God knows she’d be lucky to break 5% running in the 2024 Republican primary. https://t.co/mxD8mbkur2
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 26, 2021
RELATED: Trump ‘Very Seriously’ Considering A 2024 Run, Says He Misses Helping People
Just weeks ago, Cheney again attacked former President Donald Trump, whom she voted to impeach because he allegedly incited the Capitol protests in January.
“I think that it was the gravest violation of an oath of office by any president in American history,” the establishment Republican declared in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.
“For us as a party, we have to be the party of hope and aspirations, and we cannot embrace insurrection and can’t minimize what happened January 6.”
Question: If Donald Trump were the 2024 nominee, would you support him?
Liz Cheney: I would not pic.twitter.com/lmroWeIPiv— Acyn (@Acyn) April 14, 2021
The Wyoming Republican has said she would not support Donald Trump if he were to run in 2024.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, the former President insisted he is “very seriously” considering a run for the White House in 2024.
Trump on 2024 run:
“I am looking at it very seriously— beyond seriously.” pic.twitter.com/0qlUanXD04
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 20, 2021
Liz Cheney running for president will be difficult, but she has enough trouble on the horizon in her next primary.
Cheney is already facing a primary challenge and has faced multiple calls to resign following her vote to impeach Trump.
The former President’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joked that Cheney’s presidential aspirations must involve “a primary challenge to Joe Biden for the Dem nomination because God knows she’d be lucky to break 5% running in the 2024 Republican primary.”
Former Clinton campaign adviser and political pundit Dick Morris predicted Cheney will lose her re-election campaign in 2022 due to her decision to impeach Trump.
“She has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting reelected,” he told Newsmax.
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