Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo penned an article Monday slamming current Gov. Kathy Hochul for her ‘incompetence’ and ‘backdoor deals,’ citing in part the recently announced $850 million Buffalo Bills’ stadium deal that could directly benefit Hochul’s husband’s concession business.
Cuomo, who resigned in August after a sexual harassment scandal, weighed in on the current state of affairs in Albany in a New York Daily News column titled ‘There’s a better way forward for New York State.’
‘The Albany culture now is ‘see no evil’ and ‘go along to get along.’ State government is back to parochial politics, fundraising and incompetence,’ the embattled career politician wrote.
The hit piece comes on the heels of an especially chaotic week for Hochul.
Her handpicked Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned in the wake of his arrest in a federal corruption investigation, just seven months after the pair vowed to make a fresh start in an office already rocked by scandal.
Cuomo went on to criticize his former right-hand woman’s response to a new spike in COVID cases in the Empire State following Hochul’s remarks that she will not impose new lockdowns so as to not disturb the state’s newly regained economical stability.
‘COVID has changed the world. People [and] businesses can work from home. [It’s] not that people are affirmatively choosing other states, but that they’re being constructively evicted from NY,’ Cuomo wrote in a tweet sharing the Daily News piece.
‘We just paid the Bills $1 billion. What do we pay our citizens to stay?’
Hochul, who faces an election this fall, recently came under fire after Albany insiders pointed out that an $850 million, taxpayer-funded contract to build a $1.4 billion stadium for the Buffalo Bills would potentially benefit her husband’s major food concession business.