With less than a week to go before Election Day, Bill Ritter breaks down the final New York City mayoral debate and the latest poll for the New Jersey governor's race. James is the first woman elected as state attorney general and the first Black person to serve in the role. Andrew Cuomo who resigned after a sexual harassment investigation headed by James. Kathy Hochul has already said she will run. The alleged crime took place at the governor's mansion on Decemwhen Cuomo "intentionally and for no legitimate purpose" forcibly placed his hand under the blouse of an unnamed victim and onto an intimate body part.Ĭuomo's attorney has denied any wrongdoing.Īttorney General Letitia James preparing to announce run for New York governor: SourceĪ source close to Attorney General Letitia James says she is preparing to announce a run for governor of New York.Ĭurrent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo charged with misdemeanor sex crimeįormer New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been summonsed to appear in court next month on a misdemeanor forcible touching charge.Ī criminal complaint against Cuomo was filed by Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple Thursday in Albany City Court. Instead it’s the constant ticking of additional greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere that mount with each tick, showing how much time remains to prevent global average temperature from passing the aspirational threshold of no more than 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial averages.The team is breaking down all the political headlines from the day in this edition of "The Countdown." Thursday, Oct. In the end, it’s not seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years that are most important about this danged clock. One thing interesting about watching the countdown clock, below, is that the usual metric may in fact be a major impediment to progress. The incoming 2021 administration, under either candidate, unquestionably will face a challenging and expanding range of priorities: bringing to a smooth landing the nagging COVID-19 pandemic certain to still be on the public’s mind social and economic challenges involving and going beyond racial equity and inequality a bewildering range of foreign policy hot spots a need to “fix” wrongs perceived by one side as having been inflicted over the past four years, or, on the other hand, to maintain and perhaps even accelerate the rate of fence-building (literal and rhetorical), deregulation, nationalism/”America First,” and much more. Whether that in fact was or was not the “right” decision is at this point irrelevant. One need not think too hard to remember that the incoming Obama administration in 2009 had drawn just such a straight flush but then – whether rightly or wrongly – chose to advance a public health rather than an energy/climate agenda. Lots of variables and unknown unknowns go into this thinking, of course, including primarily who is or is not elected and inaugurated come January 2021 and, of course, the importance of the winning candidate’s having, or not having, a supportive majority in both the Senate and the House to help move along priorities. So from the January 20, 2021, presidential inauguration date, go out about six months. This current doomsday clock is fueled by 1) a preference for a preferred outcome in the presidential election now 28 days away and 2) the notion that the first six months of any new administration is the period most ripe for major legislative action. For purposes of discussion, let’s say that takes us through about the end of July 2021, give or take a smidge. Something now in vogue among many eager to see real action on addressing global warming is word that only about nine months remain to take serious action: That is, to address our fossil fuel gluttony. It’s all in who’s doing the watching and time-keeping. Some are said to speed along at warp speeds, and some seem never to advance at all.
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