State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins repeatedly refused to weigh in Thursday on the $637 million “pay-to-play” scandal engulfing Gov. Kathy Hochul.
in the Nov. 8 election, has been on the defensive since it was revealed in July that New Jersey-based Digital Gadgets was paid $637 million to supply the state with 52 million COVID-19 test kits.
“Democrats have all turned a blind eye to each other’s corruption and Hochul knows she doesn’t have to answer to the legislature or [Democratic Attorney General Letitia James], butt we are urging voters who are sick of the corruption to take their power back and throw her out of office this November,” he said.
Former Republican US Sen. Al D’Amato called the Digital Gadgets deal “incredible” and said Hochul was making her predecessor — former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned over sexual harassment allegations — “look like a choir boy.”“She sold herself for $300,000 in contributions.”US Rep. Elise Stefanik predicted that “Stewart-Cousins’ dismissal of corrupt Kathy Hochul’s pay-for-play scheme is why Republicans will surge to victory across New York State this November.
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