POSTED: APR 19 2018 03:25PM CDT
FOX NEWS – In an executive order signed Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote.
The move by the second-term Democrat came after state Republicans blocked a bill in the state Senate.
“I’m unwilling to take no for an answer,” Cuomo said at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York City. “I’m going to make it law by executive order.”
Cuomo said that nearly three-fourths of parolees in New York are black or Latino, and allowing parolees to vote will help them to reconnect with the community.
But Republicans disagree and already started pouncing on Cuomo over the new measure. Republican Senate Leader John Flanagan said Wednesday that the order was bad public policy and could potentially be illegal because the governor ignored the Legislature.
Ed Cox, chairman of the state Republican Party, in a statement, called the directive an “outrageous power grab” in a bid to appeal to “radical primary voters,” according to the New York Times.
Cuomo is facing an energized Democratic primary challenge from “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, who has repeatedly attacked the governor from the left and for failing to support minorities in the state.
CHRIS AND ANDREW CUOMO BELONG IN THE BRONX ZOO WITH THE REST OF THE ANIMALS – UPDATE
CNN star Chris Cuomo (CLICK) took to Twitter and belittled a viewer’s concerns about illegal immigration on Monday, asking, “Who teaches you guys this tripe?”
The social media thread started on Sunday when Cuomo wrote, “Honest question: how is wanting to help dreamers become citizens, being anti-American citizens?” A user responded, “When you put those who have entered the US illegally before US citizens. Remember that the government cannot give anything to someone that it hasn’t taken from another.”
The anti-Trump Cuomo didn’t appreciate the comment and responded to his 1.2 million followers, mocking the comment as “tripe” and dismissing someone simply for having opposing viewers.
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CLICK HERE FOR HIS BROTHER GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO, A WILD ANIMAL WHO BELONGS IN THE BRONX ZOO WITH ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS.
CUOMO’S LATEST DIATRIBE IS RED STATES AGAINST BLUE STATES. CUOMO CALLS IT ECONOMIC WAR! Robbing Blue States from deducting State and local taxes (over $10,000) from their income tax returns. The facts are these, TAXES IN BLUE STATES ARE GOING NUCLEAR BECAUSE OF UNION OBLIGATIONS. However, 88% of the people who deduct state and local taxes (SALT) earn over $100,000 per year. Please don’t shed a tear for them; due to our generosity, we will send Cuomo a box of Kleenex.