Posted on 10/07/2020 5:52:41 PM PDT by karpov
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told Jewish religious leaders that limiting houses of worship to 50 percent capacity was sufficient to beat back the coronavirus surge — only to announce tighter restrictions just hours later.
The governor spoke around 9 a.m. Tuesday with honchos from Orthodox Jewish communities across New York, seeking their commitment to help contain new outbreaks in Brooklyn and Queens, as well as a handful of upstate communities.
“I’m asking you, out of friendship, for your help,” Cuomo said, according to a transcript of the phone call obtained by The Post. “It’s in your community’s best interest on many levels. It’s in their health interest. It’s [in] their relationship with the surrounding communities interest. And I know if you inform your community, they will listen to you.”
Many sites of the latest outbreaks are in communities with sizable Orthodox populations.
Cuomo told the leaders that a strict limit on the number of people in synagogues and other houses of worship was necessary, but indicated that it would be set at 50 percent.
“We have to follow the 50 percent in the synagogues … otherwise, I’m telling you, we’re gonna have to wind up going back to close down,” he said, according to the transcript. “We’re going to enforce the rules but the 50 percent is OK.”
Cuomo seemed to paint himself as backed into a corner by local leaders, such as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — even though he was the one who on Monday raised the possibility of restrictions on houses of worship after a weekend proposal by de Blasio made no mention of the institutions.
Hizzoner, by contrast, has been accused by Cuomo of taking a kid-glove approach on religious Jewish communities, including non-existent enforcement on mask usage.
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Governor Gobbles
All he can grab ... until he comes to the end of his rope.
Yet, many Jews would crawl over broken glass to vote for this guy.
Hitler/Cuomo: They both started small but Cuomo got that sending people to their death pretty well thus far and is proficient at the Nuremberg laws.
Como is violating the Federal constitution by bypassing the representative government and making himself a dictator.
Our state legislature gave him carte blanche last March.
I’m not sure there’s a legal remedy for that.
We still need Simon Wiesenthal.
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo told Jewish religious leaders that limiting houses of worship to 50 percent capacity was sufficient to beat back the coronavirus surge — only to announce tighter restrictions just hours later.”
fascism is as fascism does ... all based on “science” of course ...
Use the federal constitution to charge them all with gross dereliction of duty. They are required to be a representative government by the US constitution. They were elected to do that. Not pass it off to a dictator.
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Guess he changed his mind.
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