Popcorn concessionaire for the NY22 race for Congress. Approved and licensed journalist. Devotee of the Golden Apple. Hail Eris! Pronouns: Wham/Bam/Alakazam
Unbelievable. Linda Sun used her position to craft Governor Hochul's speech for Lunar New Year in line with CCP demands. Removed all mention of the Uyghur concentration camps.
Here's the indictment against Gov. Hochul's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Linda Sun. It is absolutely damning. Provided direct access to NYS internal conference calls and documents, and set up corrupt deals for COVID supplies with CCP officials.
I honestly can't believe the
#NY22
election isn't the lead story on every newscast in the country.
@marceelias
(!) and the Perkins Coie legal team are literally arguing that voting machines *changed thousands of votes*.
It boggles the mind this isn't getting more attention.
.
@GovKathyHochul
has spent the 8 days since the SCOTUS decision against NY's firearm carry restrictions touting her legislative response in 11 Tweets, 5 national television appearances, and 3 press conferences.
Sadly, she forgot to come up with an actual bill.
On the waiting game in Albany for a gun restrictions bill, a Capitol Wag opines:
“You shouldn't call for an Extraordinary Session unless you have an Extraordinary Bill...in print.”
@GovKathyHochul
"New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave."
The vast majority of them were nurses.
Please, tell me more about how you're going to be there for them.
Six weeks after conceding the
#NY22
election, former Rep. Anthony Brindisi embraces the "Appointed, not elected!" narrative and goes full-bore
#BlueAnon
.
Previously,
@marceelias
and his legal team unsuccessfully argued voting machines changed thousands of votes in the election.
@GovKathyHochul
"New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave."
The vast majority of them were nurses.
Please, tell me more about how much we owe them.
@GovKathyHochul
@NYSLabor
"New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave."
The vast majority of them were women.
Please, tell me more about the pandemic's impact on women in the workplace.
Gov. Hochul needs to do two things:
1. Commit to a complete after-action analysis of NY's response to COVID.
2. Clean house at the DOH. The audit stonewalling happened on *her* watch, not Cuomo's. She owns it.
Key audit findings --
#NYNursingHomes
:
Meanwhile, Gov. Hochul has signaled she does not plan to conduct a detailed retrospective of what happened when COVID hit NY nursing homes.
@NYHammond
#Covid_19
I don't think people appreciate how apocalyptic the hospital staffing shortage is here in Utica.
St. Luke's staffed ICU beds-
Dec. 2020- 38
Dec. 2021- 16
St. Elizabeth's staffed ICU beds-
Dec. 2020- 33
Dec. 2021- 25
That's a 58% decrease at St. Luke's, 24% at St. Elizabeth's.
In Oneida County it's actually 36% of the population on Medicaid. Paying the state mandated share of those costs devours 80% of every property tax dollar.
It has to end, and tomorrow your vote for
@LarrySharpe
can make it happen.
Gov. Cuomo hasn't been seen in Utica since August 20th, 2015, when he pledged Nano-Utica would bring thousands of jobs. Oops.
This weekend
@LarrySharpe
returns to Utica, *yet again*, along with running mate
@achollister
.
'Cause that's how they roll.
This is so wrong in so many ways.
1. No Utica? Halfmoons? Utica greens? Chicken riggies? Tomato pie?
2. Who thought defining upstate NY's regional food destinations based on proximity to an interstate exit was a good idea?
3. Seriously, no Utica?
Road trip! 🚗
Buffalo ➡️ Rochester ➡️ Syracuse ➡️ Binghamton
Proud to help launch Upstate Eats Trail bringing together unique culinary options of Upstate NY.
It's the "Summer of Upstate" as I announce
#Hochul225Challenge
: 4 cities + 225 miles + LOTS OF FOOD in 1 day, Join me!
Regular gasoline in the Utica/Rome area up to a record high of $4.41 a gallon. A minimum wage worker has to clock just over four hours to pay for filling up their gas tank.
Luckily, they can just buy an electric car and avoid those high gas prices.
@GovKathyHochul
@MTA
Turns out, when you're surrounded by a security team of seven plainclothes State Police specialists and a swarm of police, the subway is amazingly safe.
Who'da thunk it? 🤡🌎
@GovKathyHochul
"New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave."
The vast majority of them were nurses.
Please, tell me more about how much you're doing for them.
@PatrickByrne
I'm all for getting the word out, but it would be nice if you could give appropriate credit for breaking the story...and providing your graphic. Heh.
I honestly can't believe the
#NY22
election isn't the lead story on every newscast in the country.
@marceelias
(!) and the Perkins Coie legal team are literally arguing that voting machines *changed thousands of votes*.
It boggles the mind this isn't getting more attention.
Fun Fact: Larry Sharpe has visited the Utica-Rome area more than another other gubernatorial candidate. And he doesn't use a state-owned plane or helicopter. Heh.
Larry Sharpe is back. Has any gubernatorial candidate *ever* spent so much time here in Utica?
The last time Gov. Cuomo deigned to grace us with his presence was August 20th, 2015. It's been over three years since he's shown his face.
This is a great introduction to Larry Sharpe.
If you've ever found yourself questioning the whole "Rah, rah! Team Red! Team Blue!" paradigm the first five minutes alone will be a breathe of fresh air.
@GovKathyHochul
@NYSLabor
Your own budget office says it will take until at least 2026 to get employment back to pre-pandemic levels.
Your policies aren't working and we can't wait four more years, Gov. Hochul.
@GovKathyHochul
"The 18-year-old white supremacist who murdered 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket on May 14 was taken into custody by police last June after he threatened to carry out a shooting."
Please, tell me more about Red Flag laws saving lives.
Gov. Cuomo has now made more trips to Puerto Rico than Utica.
We've lost thousands of jobs. Our economy is barely sputtering along after suffering a massive crash. Half our children live in crushing poverty.
And Andrew Cuomo is still MIA.
The Oneida County Board of Elections botched the 2020 race in
#NY22
, leaving the results in doubt for months.
Under redistricting, if they do the same in 2022 they could leave *3* congressional seats unfilled well into 2023, putting control of the House in doubt.
Yikes.
NEWS:
@HealthNYGov
issued determinations to these 32 NY hospitals today to cease nonessential procedures scheduled to occur on or after this Wednesday, Dec. 9:
In the last year Utica's population fell from 61,337 to 60,635. That's *with* an influx of 434 refugees from resettlement.
Gov. Cuomo hasn't been seen here in years, while Larry Sharpe has been here multiple times in the past few months alone. What more needs to be said?
Florida has more people than New York, but about 1/2 the budget NYS has. We have the bigger budget, less people and we’re still hemorrhaging people yearly due to ever-increasing taxes, needless regulations and a Governor who can’t stop spending.
#Sharpe4Gov
#aNewNY
#Libertarian
Happy
#Mayday
to all who celebrate.
I've been a citizen of the Imperium since 1979, when a bunch of bored college students first started roaming the Spinward Marches. And dying during the ol' skool
#Traveller
character generation system.
Just one more term!
@GovKathyHochul
"Hochul, 64, took 210 flights across New York on a Sikorksy S-76 chopper and King Air planes."
Please, tell me more about getting to work sustainably.
Larry Sharpe is a great guy, and the reason there's a Libertarian line on the NY ballot this year.
I suspect both Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Vasquez will have some thoughts on the
#NY22
race.
Please join me TOMORROW, Nov 4th, at 8pm ET for the next episode of The Sharpe Way Show.
I’ll be discussing Upstate NY politics with Michael “Vass” Vasquez.
Please call in:
573-427-5463
Join the livestream at the YouTube link in my bio.
#sharpeway
#larrysharpe
#libertarian
#ny
"Cuomo wanted a thorough investigation like he wanted a thorough root canal. He needed to buy time."
The fact his lackeys are pushing back against the investigation so hard is a good indication there's clear evidence of wrongdoing.
Retweeting this because people don't seem to grasp how horrific it is. Herkimer County has just over 28,000 working adults. About 2.5 percent of them lost their jobs in the last 48 hours.
#NY22
600 jobs at Remington Arms in Ilion...gone.
This is an economic disaster. It's not going to take long for the ripple effects to trigger more job losses. If Roundhill can't ramp up production this is the death knell for Herkimer County.
@GovKathyHochul
Er...that's an interesting take on having the court throw out huge chunks of the CCIA. Most importantly, Jews can now defend themselves against antisemites attacking their synagogues and temples.
@GovKathyHochul
Your own budget office says NY won't return to pre-pandemic employment levels until 2026. Other states have not only regained those jobs, but added tens of thousands more.
Please, Gov. Hochul, tell me more about NY exceptionalism.
Yikes. The Cuomo administration is seriously trying to claim this year's budget was balanced from the get-go.
Mr. Hammond ain't buyin' it, and he brought the receipts.
In March 2019, the state quietly postponed $1.7B in Medicaid payments from one fiscal year to the next. That was not known to legislators at the time or factored into the 2019-20 budget, which was therefore out of balance from the moment it passed.
@GovKathyHochul
You signed the Child Poverty Reduction Act into law back on December 1st, 2021. The Advisory council was supposed to have it's first meeting within 60 days.
Please, tell me more about how alleviating poverty is one of your top priorities.
Some people dream of buying a mansion or traveling the world when they win the lottery.
Me? If I'm lucky tonight I will personally pay Wegmans whatever it takes for them to open a store in Utica.
Dream big.
A nice writeup from
@LarrySharpe
's latest visit to the Utica area.
“I absolutely am disgusted with Cuomo and everything that he is doing right now and I’m looking at other options..."
Cuomo molests public employees (allegedly) in a public building and a couple of dudes chastise me for conveying information that a public building is his only home.
#NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
I love John Krasinki's "A Quiet Place". It was cool seeing Little Falls in the movie.
That said, the $7 million dollars the taxpayers of NY paid for the movie, a third of the total budget, would have bought a whole lot of textbooks and ventilators.
If Albany didn't give this cash to TV and film producers, there's a risk it would wind up in a hospital or a classroom or some other less-deserving purpose.
@GovKathyHochul
@NYSLabor
Your own Budget Office says we won't return to pre-pandemic levels of employment for at least four years.
Please Gov. Hochul, tell me more about New York's comeback story under your watch.
@NYHammond
The author of the study, D. Gilson, has a PhD in English and serves as an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University.
With solid credentials like that you know the methodology of the study is beyond reproach.
The perfect use case for an EV like the Bolt. Lots of start and stop driving within the confines of the city, ample time for recharge during the low-demand overnight hours.
@Celeste4Utica
deserves credit for getting this up and running.
Money that was supposed to fund water treatment and infrastructure was diverted to pay former Gov. Cuomo's staffers.
Years from now we're still going to be uncovering more of Cuomo's awfulness.
A $500K settlement details the Cuomo administration's misuse of a federal clean-water grant to pay for staffers in Cuomo's office -- the result of a long-running FBI investigation into Cuomo's hiring practices
A complete refresh and redesign for
@SarahKleeHoodNY
's campaign website, including a call for volunteers. The only question now is when she'll officially launch.
#NY22
@GovKathyHochul
@NYSDOCCS
I suspect there's a good reason you didn't link to their actual power output. Here, let me help.
Mid-State Correctional, Oneida, NY. Average capacity factor of 12.1%, a dismal low of 2.6% in January. Good thing we don't have a demand for electric heat in January. 🤡🌎
@rachbarnhart
Of all the candidates I've been following you easily put in the most work earning those votes. Congratulations.
You fought the good fight, and won.
The gunman in yesterday's shooting at Utica's Proctor High School is in custody. Unless he meets the "extraordinary circumstance" provision of NY's "Raise the Age" reforms he'll do no jail time and his records will be sealed. Effectively, the attempted killing never happened.
If you're in Utica I hope you'll consider voting for
@Celeste4Utica
and
@katieaiello
today. I disagree with Ms. Friend more often than not, but her integrity and dedication to her constituents is above reproach. Ms. Aiello is smart, driven, and will challenge the status quo.
Last night there was a mass shooting in Utica, with four victims gunned down. As of now the
@uticaOD
, the city's legal paper of record, doesn't have a single mention of the incident.
Can we dispense with the fiction that we even have a Utica newspaper anymore?
Hey
@Gannett
, a Utica man was fatally gunned down on the street just after midnight. Here's the current
@uticaOD
website.
Tell me more about your commitment to local journalism.
@GovKathyHochul
"Of the hundreds of hate crimes committed against Jews in the city since 2018, many of them documented on camera, only a single perpetrator has served even one day in prison."
Please, tell me more about taking a stand against hate.
The Bianca Devins murder in Utica is all over social media. Not a peep from the local media.
I don't want to hear another word about the importance of local news.
@RMConservative
@Southof5and20
New York was facing a $6+ billion dollar Medicaid shortfall.
70% of the state's nursing home residents are on Medicaid.
If someone wanted to kill off those patients to save money their actions would be indistinguishable from Gov. Cuomo's.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
They're divvying up Oneida County, again. Rome and Utica in two different congressional districts? This makes absolutely no demographic sense, unless your sole concern is tipping an election.
#NY22
The winners in the compromise NY plan described here (my own rough sketch below):
#NY18
Rep. Pat Ryan (D)
#NY19
Rep. Marc Molinaro (R)
#NY22
John Mannion (D)
Losers:
#NY18
Alison Esposito (R)
#NY19
Josh Riley (D)
#NY22
Rep. Brandon Williams (R)
@GovKathyHochul
"The outside agency that will perform this investigation will report directly to Bray, Hochul and other top aides, who will control releasing the firm's findings and information."
The thousands of seniors who died on your watch deserve better.
State redistricting experts and officials have a hunch the tension between the Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul surrounding the chief judge selection process in recent months is rooted in deeper political motives to help New York Democrats.
@GovKathyHochul
Six people down in a mass shooting just over a mile from the state capitol in Albany last night, in addition to the teenager fatally gunned down in Troy.
Please, tell me more about real progress.
@NickReisman
The
@NYGovCuomo
administration says its study on effects of legalizing marijuana will not necessarily be out this fall. In fact, there is “no timetable.” cc:
@CynthiaNixon
I'm amazed this story isn't getting *any* local coverage. The annual Civil War living history weekend in German Flatts, just outside of Herkimer, has been cancelled because of the state's new gun laws.
Thousands of people have been attending this annual event for years.
Cuomo's disastrous NanoUtica project is easily his biggest failure, dwarfing even the Buffalo Billion debacle.
$500+ million spent on Quad-C and the empty NanoField in Marcy has yielded just 24 jobs.
In the meantime our infrastructure is falling apart.
One suspect held the victim at gunpoint while the other brutally beat him with a metal baseball bat. Victim hospitalized with multiple broken bones.
Both attackers are back on the street tonight.
The explosion in ethnic markets is one of the coolest things about Utica. Beyond the mind-boggling array of imports they have amazing prices on produce and bulk foods.
@BeMoreWestmo
@davidsirota
Did you watch the Democratic AG debate last night? Every single candidate excoriated Cuomo's gutting of JCOPE and even the most basic checks on Albany's corruption.
Every. Single. Candidate.
Listen to the nurses.
Nursing home patients were relocated here to Oneida County from facilities with confirmed outbreaks. As of yesterday, close to 90% of our Covid fatalities are nursing home residents.
We need an independent investigation, now.
@GovKathyHochul
"New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave."
The vast majority were nurses.
If you wonder why the state is facing a crippling shortfall of nurses, look no further than the mirror.
"The tribe will break ground next month on a 50,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation and production facility on its homelands in the state of New York."
Sweet fancy Moses, the Oneida Indian Nation is going all-in on cannabis.
In less than four hours gubernatorial candidate
@LarrySharpe
will be appearing in Utica, yet again. He's also enthusiastically agreed to debate every other candidate for the office.
Those are the kinds of things a real Governor does.
Apparently Gov. Hochul isn't aware people are already voting with their feet.
One of the two congressional seats Florida picked up this year came at New York's expense.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention.
Since 2017 New York City has been secretly exporting its homeless population. That includes 31 individuals sent to Utica and 3 to Rome.
It's going to be a long day here in Oneida County.
There are already people and businesses rolling up their sleeves to help. There are a number of volunteer efforts being finalized this morning that you can be part of.
Times like these are when we shine.
I'm taking a break from Twitter right now. The constant stream of horror from the terrorist attacks in Israel is just too much to handle. I feel a monstrous rage, and I know that leads to a dark place I don't want to be.
Love your family, and show your love every single day.
NEWS:
@ericadamsfornyc
says he wants the NYS legislature to revisit bail reform/amend the controversial 2019 law (was also amended in the 2020 budget) to give judges judicial discretion & the ability consider “dangerousness.”
Says it’ll be a top priority when dealing w/ Albany.
Hard to believe
#NY22
has the most diverse slate of candidates in the district's history. Well, it's hard to believe if you're Francis Conole. In his mind, the entire election is just two white guys going mano a mano.
That's a character trait every voter should take note of.
Hi Francis, the people on stage tonight will be your opponents for the Democratic nom. Steve’s facing Brandon right now.
To say otherwise is not only arrogant, but dismissive to the people of color, immigrant, & the woman in the race.
Keep up the good work of alienating voters!
Yes, you're reading that right.
They're literally claiming it's *unethical* for the NYS Attorney General or the NYS Comptroller to investigate Cuomo, Inc.'s $4 million dollar book deal.
Zero shame, zero self-awareness.
.
@RichAzzopardi
alleges
@TishJames
&
@TomDiNapoli
“have spoken to people about running for Governor,” so it is “unethical” that they are pursuing an investigation into allegations/reports that
@NYGovCuomo
used state resources to produce his latest book.
"In 2016, Ulukaya announced that he would give full-time employees shares worth nearly 10% of the value of the company’s growth."
That's roughly $500 million. This is going to be a life-changer for the former refugees in Utica that work for Chobani.
Woah!!
Getting rid of taxation of Social Security benefits would make Medicare insolvent 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 earlier, in 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎. It would 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 the 75-year shortfall.
It wouldn't be great for
#SocialSecurity
either.
See
Fun Fact: Utica has one of the lowest seafood mislabeling rates in the country. Just 1% of tested samples were the wrong species. NYC has an astronomical 30% rate.
You buy scallops here and you get real scallops, baby!
"The governor has great respect for Trooper
#1
, and he didn't touch her in a sexual manner," Glavin says.
"He has read what Trooper
#1
had to say, and he feels very badly, and he apologizes for anything he did to make her feel that way."
BREAKING from
@Brendan_LyonsTU
: After the Appellate Division unanimously rejected an appeal from Tappan Zee Constructors seeking to keep it sealed forever, portions of a whistleblower’s lawsuit have been made public.
Hey,
@Gannett
. There was an officer involved shooting in Utica last night. Dozens of police, state troopers, and sheriff's deputies were called out to handle a crowd of hundreds of people. A SWAT team was on standby.
The
@uticaOD
still doesn't have a word about it.
Gov. Cuomo last appeared in Utica on August 20th, 2015 to announce the Nano Utica project would bring thousands of jobs.
Within a year, with Todd Howe (!) acting as the Governor's liaison, the project was dead.
Cuomo hasn't been seen in Utica since.
Responding to criticism he has spent more time in Puerto Rico this past year than in other New York cities such as Buffalo,
@andrewcuomo
says he has been to Buffalo far more often and any claim to the contrary is “just factually bizarro land.” cc:
@TomPreciousALB
A new indictment shows
#NY22
was just the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Bankman-Fried used FTX engineer Nishad Singh to launder multiple illegal donations in NY, including to the NYS Democratic Committee and candidate Francis Conole.
Upstate, and Utica-Rome in particular, have been absolutely savaged by the Cuomo administration's policies. Fighting corruption isn't some abstract ideal. We've lost thousands of jobs because of Gov. Cuomo and his enablers in the Legislature.
1 million people have left NY; Upstate economy, including Buffalo, according to NY Fed Reserve has lost jobs; 1 out of 2 children born in major upstate cities born into poverty; and corrupt boondoggles - don’t visit so you don’t have to defend