Blush Gentleman's Club takes on Cuomo in fight for life
The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon
Pat Dixon
4.2 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The owner of BLUSH Gentleman's Club in Commack, Long Island has filed suit against Gov. Cuomo for unlawfully shutting down his business, while meanwhile the business isn't eligible for for loans by the federal Paycheck Protection Plan.
"In times of crises such as these, it is particularly discriminatory in that certain businesses will continue and others who deal with subjects the Government does not favor… will be dealt the hand of business death, aces and eights," the documents state.
A gunman held up a Kip's Bay laundromat, and is still on the loose.
A career subway thief was sprung from Rikers due to WuhanV concerns, and has now been rearrested for smoking that K2. He's also suspected in a newsstand robbery which netted $5K worth of .... what?
2 women stole $13,000 worth of wigs; a shooter was arrested and found to have an inactive hand grenade; Tekashi69 dropped a new video days after being released from behind bars.
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| 0:00.0 | From the smallest room in New York City, comes a show that gives you a reason to live. |
| 0:06.2 | Now in New York City, well, we have people fighting back against the closures, the business closures, |
| 0:13.0 | the owner of the Long Island jiggle joint, stripped of its constitutional right to put skin on display |
| 0:19.1 | because of the coronavirus shutdown, which goes back |
| 0:23.8 | to Cuomo. Well, there's a new lawsuit. And Sean McCarthy, who's from the Blush Gentleman's Club |
| 0:29.4 | in Comac since 1997, filed suit against Cuomo over his executive orders, shuddering non-essential businesses amid the pandemic. |
| 0:39.2 | Here's a quote. |
| 0:39.8 | Governor Cuomo is engaged in a huge overstep of executive power. |
| 0:44.2 | According to McCarthy's attorney, Joe Murray, he is infringing on people's fundamental civil rights far beyond the least restrictive measures allowable under the Constitution. |
| 0:55.7 | Someone should remind him he is the governor, not the king. |
| 0:59.5 | Join me now. Seth Barron. Hey, Seth. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey, Pat. How are you? I'm all right. Where is this gentleman's club? |
| 1:05.6 | C-O-M-A-C-K, Comac. Okay. And it's, you know, I think it makes sense. |
| 1:11.8 | To be declared non-essential is just basically the kiss of death. |
| 1:16.6 | And you're dependent on them to, I mean, not, you become dependent on the government, rather, for your living and your livelihood and that of your children. |
| 1:26.6 | I don't think that... |
| 1:27.8 | But aren't we... |
| 1:28.6 | I mean, just to play devil's advocate for a minute, aren't we always dependent on the government? |
| 1:33.3 | Well, not this dependent. |
| 1:34.8 | I mean, you can operate freely, I believe, within the bounds of the law. |
| 1:39.8 | So I guess, you know, this is not really a law law. |
| 1:43.0 | It's just, isn't it like an executive order, |
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