Cuomo, the Musical!
Peterarthur
When Hank Morris was put in prison by Andrew Cuomo for a kickback scheme involving the state pension fund, Morris’s plea agreement prevented him from complaining that he got railroaded. So he made a musical, “A Turtle on a Fence Post,” to speak for him.
Peterarthur
All politics is performance, but NewYorkers seem particularly susceptible to shtick. Rudolph Giuliani milked the role of America’s mayor for more than a decade before fading into mascara-streaked ignominy. It was NewYork’s tabloids that first made a star of DonaldTrump. And then there’s Andrew Cuomo, whose televised coronavirus briefings were so popular