5 May 2021: Cuomo a "Generational Disappointment"

The politician’s apple doesn’t fall far from the tree — mostly

This commentary is really a fluff piece. It's about how the children of prominent politicians are different from their parents. And yet, here's how it addresses Governor Andrew Cuomo:

Whoever first said, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” never took a good hard look at the offspring of many American political figures. Recent allegations from several women that Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York sexually harassed them are so out of synch with the public image of his late and respected father, Governor Mario Cuomo, that — if the allegations are true — show the governor from the Big Apple falling into a totally different orchard. The late senior Cuomo was revered as a brilliant gentleman full of wisdom and class.

Andrew Cuomo also disappointed Americans who had appreciated and respected the New York governor’s COVID-19 public health TV updates early in the crisis when most of us knew nothing about the impending plague. A year later, Mario’s son and members of his administration stand accused of altering the number of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19 to hide the true numbers while also accused of misusing his Albany State House staff to help get his book written, edited, and published.

Such generational disappointment is not new, nor limited to any one political party....

The article goes on to discuss the children of many other politicians. In its coverage of Governor Andrew Cuomo, we think it's a bit of a whitewash because it entirely misses why Governor Cuomo hid the true number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths: his deadly 25 March 2020 directive directly contributed to that death toll. None of the other featured politicians' children have similar amounts of blood on their hands.