If
Cuomo had raided the MTA budget in 2010, 2014, 2015, leaving NYC's
transit system to crumble, but not disbanded the Moreland Commission, an
ethics body, when he himself came under investigation...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission but not rushed the reopening of
the Tappan Zee Bridge against engineers' orders, so he had something to
grandstand about ahead of the 2018 primary...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo rushed the reopening of the Tappan Zee Bridge but not quietly
given tax breaks for luxury yachts and private planes in the 2015 state
budget...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo quietly given those
tax breaks but not proceeded to give more tax breaks to corporations
than any other U.S. Governor...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo given more tax breaks to corporations than any other U.S. Governor
but not taken hundreds of thousands in donations from predatory
financial execs pushing austerity in Puerto Rico...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo taken hundreds of thousands in donations from predatory financial
execs pushing austerity in Puerto Rico but not gotten friends and staff
to make repeated $1 donations so he could claim "small donors"...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo gotten friends and staff to make repeated $1 donations but not
deleted state workers emails after 90 days, raising serious questions
about ethics and paper trails...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo deleted state workers emails after 90 days but not raked in huge money from the real estate industry...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo raked in huge money from real estate but not taken nearly $1
million from landlords and property owners who rent space to ICE and
CBP...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo not taken nearly $1
million from landlords and property owners who rent space to ICE and CBP
but not cut off funding to the grassroots organizations protecting
immigrant communities like New York Communities for Change & Make
the Road New York after they dared to endorse Cynthia Nixon...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo cut funding from these grassroots orgs but not sought to destroy the Working Families Party...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo sought to destroy the Working Families Party but not created a
fake women’s party to try and manipulate women into voting on a ballot
line with no platform or constituency, in another attempt to destroy the
WFP… DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo created a fake women’s party to destroy the WFP but not refused, year after year, to tax the rich...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo refused to tax the rich but not spent $50 million on a job creation program that created only 408 jobs...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo spent $50 million on this failed job creation program but not
backed the IDC, a group of fake Democrats that gave Republicans the
majority in the State Senate for years...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo backed the IDC but not vetoed more bills now, with a fully blue legislature, than when we had a Republican Senate...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo vetoed more bills from a blue legislature but not attempted to
torpedo legislation to restore driver’s licences for undocumented
people...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo attempted to
torpedo the Green Light legislation but not later said “As a New Yorker,
I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking
to control her body. We are one New York”...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo said he’s a Muslim, Jewish, Black, gay woman seeking to control
her body but not also compared anti-Italian discrimination to anti-Black
racism, dropping the N-word in the process...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo compared anti-Italian discrimination to anti-Black racism but not
cut Medicaid & $400 million from hospitals at the start of the
pandemic...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo cut Medicaid
& hospital funding at the start of the pandemic but not failed to
fulfill the Foundation Aid formula year after year, ignoring the court
order to fund Black & brown public schools...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo failed to fund Black & brown public schools but not covered
up the real number of lives lost to COVID-19 in New York State nursing
homes...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo covered up the real
number of lives lost in nursing homes but not also insisted on austerity
budgets at the expense of schools, healthcare, and life-saving services
for Black and brown communities...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo insisted on austerity budgets but not sexually harassed his staff
and others around him, creating an unbearably toxic misogynist
workplace...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo sexually
harassed his staff and others around him but not played political games
instead of shutting down the State to keep people safe...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo played political games instead of shutting down the State but not
excluded undocumented New Yorkers from all relief in a so-called
sanctuary state...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo excluded
undocumented New Yorkers from relief but not also rolled back bail
reform in order to incarcerate more poor New Yorkers at the start of the
pandemic...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo rolled by bail reform but not exploited prison labor to produce hand sanitizer for pennies...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo exploited prison labor to produce hand sanitizer but not refused
to prioritize vaccinations for incarcerated people, against the
recommendations of health experts...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo refused to prioritize vaccinations for incarcerated people but
not had one of the nation’s most horrific records on clemencies to begin
with...DAYEINU!
Had Cuomo had one of the
nation’s most horrific records on clemencies but not referred to
unhoused people on the subway as “disgusting”...DAYEINU!
Had
Cuomo referred to unhoused people on the subway as “disgusting” but
not, while New York has had among the worst COVID outcomes of any state,
spent his time writing a book about how he single-handedly defeated the
virus...DAYEINU!!!
