The upending of Cuomo’s national press strategy
Laura Nahmias
When Governor Andrew Cuomo gave his inaugural address on January 1, 2011, after a campaign that pledged to clean up Albany, he asked the people of New York to help him mend a state government that had turned into a “national punchline."
“The joke is on us,” he said.
Now, apparently, he's concerned that the national joke is on him, with everyone from Jon Stewart to Fox News to the hosts of MSNBC mocking him for his hobbling of an ethics commission and subsequent, progressively tortured explanations.
After a particularly brutal ten-minute segment on "Morning Joe" on Monday, in which Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough cited the details of a dead-to-rights Times investigation to compare Cuomo unfavorably to scandal-damaged New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Cuomo called Brzezinski privately to explain his side of the story, according to the co-host.
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