7 May 2021: Cuomo's Search for Better PR People to Intensify

Another top aide leaves Cuomo, as governor’s office shuffles ranks

We have a running joke about Governor Cuomo's constant search for better PR people and more legal help. This report reveals how shallow Team Cuomo's available PR talent pool is becoming as staffers flee for greener pastures:

A top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — communications director Peter Ajemian — is the latest to resign from the administration as it faces multiple investigations into sexual harassment allegations and a probe of its handling of nursing home patient deaths from COVID-19.

Ajemian became head of Cuomo’s communication department barely a year ago in August 2020, taking over from longtime aide Dani Lever after she took a job with Facebook.

That's bad enough, but then the Cuomo administration's PR problems got even worse:

The governor’s office announced longtime aide Rich Azzopardi — Cuomo’s current senior adviser and spokesman — will be replacing Ajemian, amid an omnibus email with a slew of new hires Friday afternoon.

Things must be going pretty badly in Team Cuomo's bunker for Azzopardi to become the administration's new head PR flack. Here is one reaction to the extreme Cuomo loyalist's promotion:

As if the Cuomo Administration couldn’t sink any lower, they appoint @RichAzzopardi as communications director.

He called us grieving families a “death cult” and told a grieving daughter to “get a life”. pic.twitter.com/7NpWuMisXE

— VoicesForSeniors (@Voices4Seniors) May 7, 2021

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