Cuomo Resigns

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Government, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they dissect the much-needed resignation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. They also shudder as 19 Republicans in the Senate support the badly bloated infrastructure bill. And they fume as Oregon addresses its problem of some students of color failing to meet high school proficiency standards by getting rid of the standards altogether.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 3-Martini lunch.
0:04.8	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.5	3-Martini's coming up.
0:13.5	He's gone.
0:14.8	Or he will be gone in two weeks.
0:16.8	Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, who we thought would never leave office willingly.
0:23.1	His fingernails will be clutching the desk as the impeachment votes rolled in in a state legislature.
0:28.7	But that's not the case.
0:30.7	Just finding out minutes ago as we record this, that Andrew Cuomo will in fact be resigning.
0:35.9	Glad you're with us.
0:36.7	Your stool is ready.
0:37.7	We do have bad and crazy martinis as well, but this is obviously the headline of the day.
0:42.0	Jim, he fought this as much as he could, but the tea leaves obviously pretty clear at this point that he just didn't have the support and legislature.
0:51.3	You know if he did, he'd be hanging on as well as he could.
0:55.3	But he did leave us with a statement today.
0:58.6	And man, he's leaving the same way.
1:00.6	He governed for the past nearly 12 years here with all the moxie and the brashness that he can muster.
1:07.6	Here's Andrew Cuomo explaining why he's leaving.
1:11.0	Government really needs to function today.
1:14.8	Government needs to perform.
1:18.1	It is a matter of life and death, government operations.
1:24.7	And wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing.
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