Governor Cuomo
Cuomo Confronted With Scandal, Reed Considers Potential Run
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As Gov. Cuomo faces multiple allegations related to sexual misconduct and underreporting nursing home fatalities, Rep. Tom Reed prepares to run for the governorship.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/representive-tom-reed/)
As Gov. Cuomo faces multiple allegations related to sexual misconduct and underreporting nursing home fatalities, Rep. Tom Reed prepares to run for the governorship.
To the Editor:
Perennial candidate Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 — who announced her 2020 bid to unseat incumbent Congressman Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) just eight days after her loss in 2018 — continues to receive coverage in this newspaper suggesting that Mitrano can and deserves to win this November. Its readership is left to wonder why The Sun believes so ardently in Mitrano’s virtues as a candidate and as a potential representative. In the latest reported piece on the coming election, Mitrano explains her viability in this cycle by citing the fact that in 2018, she had the disadvantage of having Governor Andrew Cuomo on the ballot. Mitrano goes on to insist that her campaign was plagued with “close to the ceiling of Republican turnout” in 2018. If Mitrano is counting on lower rather than higher turnout in a presidential election year when a Republican incumbent is on the ballot, she can expect to be sorely disappointed.
“By supporting this bill, Congressman Reed just voted to block thousands of his constituents in New York, and millions of people around the country, from essential health care.”
Republican Rep. Tom Reed, who represents the sweeping 23rd congressional district that covers all of Tompkins County, met with half a dozen Cornell professors and researchers on Monday.