Professional update:
As first reported by
@CityAndStateNY
today, I’m joining the
@jpmorgan
@Chase
team as Executive Director for New York communications. Incredibly excited to help tell the story of New York’s bank in its hometown!
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
opens the new Moynihan Train Hall, expanding Penn Station’s concourse area by 50% with sunlight through over 1 acre or glass skylights.
This is how it works, folks.
It starts with a wedding that’s too big—but everyone going to the wedding understands the risk…their choice, right?
Well, no.
Because it leads to outbreaks at a nursing home, a jail, and a school.
The woman who died didn’t even go to the wedding.
“Maine health officials say 123 people have tested positive as a result of the wedding…25% of the cases were tertiary, ‘meaning they were infected by someone who was infected by someone who attended the wedding.’
“One woman died after having contact with a wedding guest.”
Describing how NY must work as one state,
@NYGovCuomo
: "If it comes from Montauk Point, and I have to get in a truck and drive it from Montauk Point to Buffalo, it will be there ... whatever any community needs, we will be there."
I have ZERO doubt he would actually do this.
“We don’t know
@OregonGovBrown
and we don’t know if she’s ever even been to New York, but the governor of Oregon is a New Yorker — and not just honorary, she has more than earned her stripes”
@NYDailyNews
knocks it put of the park.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
.
@NYGovCuomo
: “I’m a former altar boy, Catholic grammar school, Catholic high school, Jesuits at college. So I fully respect religion & if there’s a time in life when we need it, the time is now—but we want to make sure we keep people safe at the same time & that’s the balance.”
Some ~personal news~
Last night Eliza and I went to Red Hook, where we fell in love on our 5th date, and I asked her a pretty *big* question … and she said yes!
“Maine health officials say 123 people have tested positive as a result of the wedding…25% of the cases were tertiary, ‘meaning they were infected by someone who was infected by someone who attended the wedding.’
“One woman died after having contact with a wedding guest.”
Am I the only one who thinks
@Roku
@TheRokuChannel
shouldn’t be advertising white supremacists like Tucker Carlson on the screen saver that plays when your TV is on but you’re not using it?
Cc:
@slpng_giants
Really big opportunity for NYC schools (and
@NYCMayor
) to show a generation of kids that plant-based food is tasty, filling, and healthy.
I hope we get this right.
@jdawsey1
Every hour or so I find myself thinking about the decisions families in Ukraine are making and what I would do if it were here. It’s heartbreaking.
But these guys … absolute legends, who didn’t think twice.
.
@TheRevAl
: “Let me also say about
@NYGovCuomo
—to give this Executive Order...there’s no governor in this country that has said what he said...To say that every mayor must come up with a plan [for police reform] or they will withhold state money is a model for... this country.”
🚨🚨🚨🚨
@NYGovCuomo
: "New York State has one of the lowest infection rates...I offer to
@MLB
, if you're having problems playing in other states, come play here. We will set up a health protocol...I would love to see a robust baseball season."
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
announces NYS is shifting from a quarantine list to a testing policy.
➡️ Get a negative test within 3 days BEFORE arriving in NYS.
➡️ Once you arrive in NYS, wait 3 days and then take a test on the 4th day (or after).
✅ If both are negative, no quarantine.
🚨 Breaking:
@Tesla
has informed
@EmpireStateDev
they have over 1,500 jobs in Buffalo will EXCEED their employment benchmark for the RiverBend facility.
Full statement from ESD Chair Howard Zemsky ⬇️
BREAKING: Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Mahon has DENIED Floral Park’s motion for a Temporary Restraining Order on the
#Isles
Belmont Arena.
Statement ⬇️
“
@NYGovCuomo
’s daily press conferences were a whole new dimension in public education. He informed, he demanded, and he calmed people down…people everywhere saw them.” —
@iemmys
President & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner presents Gov Cuomo with the International Emmy’s Founder’s Award
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
just announced on
@MSNBC
with
@KatyTurNBC
that the USNS Comfort will now take
#COVID19
patients.
Announcement comes after the Governor called the President this AM & requested the change.
That's 1,000 beds for COVID-19 patients, on top of 2,500 at Javits.
Some ~professional news~ this budget week: excited that I’ve been promoted to Vice President at
@SKDK
’s NY public affairs practice.
Thanks to
@MikeMorey
@klyon19
& the whole team for investing in me and providing such a great place to work & grow. (First in
@CityAndStateNY
⬇️)
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
& governors from other northeastern states will have an emergency summit this weekend to address COVID spread.
Gov Cuomo: "We believe we're going to have to be taking additional steps and to the degree we can share information & align action, we'll do that."
It's so refreshing that
@NYGovCuomo
can finally have a PowerPoint slide that says this.
A simple but powerful message -- and complete 180 from the Trump Administration.
"The White House is working in partnership with the Governors" on COVID response & vaccines.
After four years of Trumpian chaos, it’s startling — GREAT! but startling — to see the President address the nation, remind people to wear masks, and have a moment of silence for those who died from COVID.
Good on
@JoeBiden
@FLOTUS
@NFL
Shocking to me how the NFL and Goodell have failed to seize the moment, show any leadership, and take charge of this situation in Cincinnati.
Rudderless for nearly an hour now, despite everyone knowing what needs to happen.
LOUDER FOR THOSE IN BACK:
@NYGovCuomo
: “New York pays ... $29 billion more than it takes” from the federal government every year. “You know who takes out more than they put in ... Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida. Those are the facts. Those are the numbers.”
New: It’s
@NYGovCuomo
spox
@JRSterne
’s last day w/ the admin, per sources. He’s heading over to private sector to work in consulting. Sterne worked for ESD before being pulled over to Exec Chamber last yr to help w/ covid, handling a big portfolio including unemployment.
Letitia “Tish” James of NYC,
@TishJames
has fought on behalf of everyday New Yorkers If James wins the Democratic primary on Sept. 13 and the race in November, she would be New York first Black attorney general.
#BlackBoldPolitical
Fact check: the bill is 5,593 pages & wasn’t printed until after 1pm.
If you started reading the minute it was printed & read 500 pgs/hour, you would STILL be reading.
As NY DOL told CBS6, we’ll get NYers info & money as fast as possible. But we won’t give out bad, rushed info.
Dr. Fauci to
@NYGovCuomo
: “You got hit with a sucker punch right from the beginning…you recovered from that…I’m not surprised that your infection rate is really low, I think you were doing the right things after a really serious hit at the beginning.”
NEWS:
@NYGovCuomo
announces the
#EmpireStateTrail
opens tomorrow.
Most days I bike home from midtown on the Hudson River Park bike highway, which is part of the trail. It's great to know that if
@PeterAjemian
calls me on my commute, I can turn north & start biking to Albany.
A very unexpected & humbling honor to be counted among
@BusinessInsider
"25 top public relations hires" in 2021 ⬇️⬇️
So proud to be working with
@SKDK
and the best colleagues in the business.
.
@JRSterne
starts today as the new downstate press secretary for
@EmpireStateDev
. Sterne most recently was the campaign press secretary for AG-elect
@TishJames
' campaign.
.
@NYGovCuomo
on the 12th day *straight* with less than 1% of tests returning positive: "The reason we're doing well is because we're being smart...if people's behavior doesn't remain disciplined, we're gonna have a problem."
So, the President of Columbia University apparently said in an email to students that "one priority we have as an institution is to assist students with voting"
And the
@NewYorkGOP
are LIVID.
Luckily the
@nypost
is *all over it*
.
@NYGovCuomo
on Congress allowing unemployment benefits to expire at the end of the year: “It is as irresponsible & reckless as you can be.”
@melissadderosa
, notes Gov. Cuomo sent a letter to Congress a week ago on this and says it’s “complete & total government malpractice.”
So excited that my mom—a RN her entire career & Director of Nursing Ops at
@GreenHosp
—got her first COVID-19 shot today!
She’s helping
#CrushCOVID
, and while she lives and works in Connecticut, I know she’s
#NewYorkTough
.
@NYGovCuomo
and
@MayorJohnsonSAV
elbow-bumping after the Mayor gives the Governor a key to the City, as thanks for supplying Savannah with PPE, testing kits, and an expert team.
Breaking news:
@GovKathyHochul
has appointed
@MicahLasher
Director of Policy.
I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Micah a few times & can say without a doubt he is the smartest, hardest working, and most dedicated person in the biz. NYers are lucky to have him in our corner.
@dieworkwear
I had a suit made for my wedding and wanted suspenders for the event. The 3rd generation Italian American tailor very nicely asked if I wanted belt loops as well so I could wear a belt on other occasions. I said maybe & he replied “correct, you do not, good choice.” He was right.
In rally for Lee Zeldin tonight, FL Gov. DeSantis invoked Jewish billionaire George Soros, who's been the target of antisemitic tropes
"We have a major problem in this country with rogue prosecutors in the office, usually funded by people like George Soros," DeSantis said to 👏
Surprising no one, “
@jimmalatras
asked for a 25 percent pay cut…He has asked that the remaining $170,000 go to programs to increase faculty diversity and aide underrepresented students.”
That’s
#NewYorkTough
and
#NewYorkLoving
DATA: not only was today the 7th day in a row that NYS'
#COVID19
infection rate was below 1% -- but the rate in EVERY region was below 1% as well.
This great progress is thanks to
@NYGovCuomo
's strong leadership & New Yorkers' hard work.
"Until the vaccine is available in the South Bronx, and the East Side of Buffalo, and Wyandanch, and South Jamaica, and Edgerton and East Utica — our health care deserts — our job is not done,"
@NYGovCuomo
said.
More from
@LisaColang
⬇️
Some ~news~
After nearly three years, today is my last day at
@SKDK
.
It’s been an absolute honor to work with some of the best political and PR minds in the business — and make amazing friends along the way, while doing incredibly important work.