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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo actually called out the far left. He argued that progressives are hurting the very people they claim to champion with their approach to crime.
“Democrats: When you ignore crime, you hurt the people you represent,” Cuomo tweeted Thursday, along with a clip from Quake Media, the platform that hosts his podcast “As a Matter of Fact.”
The video, titled “Ignoring Crime: The opposite of progress,” was posted to Cuomo’s YouTube channel.
“The far left doesn’t want to talk about crime,” said Cuomo. “They don’t want to hear the word crime spoken.”
“There is no crime problem,” the former governor added, using apparent sarcasm. “It’s all Republican propaganda.”
Cuomo mentioned that crime most affects low-income and minority communities, the very people that Democrats say they represent.
“Do you know who are the victims of crime?” he asked. “Over 70% black, brown, and poor. So, tell me, who does the Democratic Party really represent if not the Black, brown, and poor? And when you refuse to address the issue of crime, the people who are paying the price are the Black, brown and poor. They’re paying the price for your far-left politics.”
Cuomo’s comments on crime come at a time when retail stores across the country are shutting down their stores, citing high crime as a key reason for closing their doors.
This past month, a California beauty store closed after it was robbed and burglarized a dozen times. In Portland, Oregon, a clothing store permanently shut down after a series of break-ins that left the store financially gutted. Walmart also said they were closing some of their stores in Portland, as well. The closures came after Walmart CEO Doug McMillon warned last year of rising crime’s devastating impact on retail stores.
Our city is in peril,” a printed note posted on Rains PDX store read. “Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins … we have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.”
Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been,” McMillon told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in December. He added that if the crime wave is not halted soon and if prosecutors don’t bring charges against shoplifters, “prices will be higher, and/or stores will close.”
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Republicans have been quite critical of progressive prosecutors in Democrat-run blue cities, arguing they’re soft on crime and contributing to high crime rates in major cities.
In a striking move last year, San Francisco voters ousted progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a recall vote focused on his soft-on-crime policies, which included prosecuting significantly fewer felonies and misdemeanors than his predecessors. Boudin had said he wanted to abolish cash bail and end “mass incarceration.”
In St. Louis, city prosecutor Kimberly Gardner currently faces widespread backlash for pursuing similar policies — including an effort by Missouri’s attorney general to remove her from office.
