Billboard campaign declares Gov. Cuomo's Emmy should be revoked over NY nursing home crisis

A conservative media watchdog group launched a billboard campaign on Monday calling for embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have his Emmy award revoked over his role in the COVID-19 crisis at the state’s nursing homes.

"At a time when corporations are expected to make statements about social justice causes and move out of states that are deemed politically incorrect, the Academy has been silent about giving an award to a man whose policies were directly responsible for thousands of nursing home deaths, and who covered it up," Accuracy in Media said in a post on its website. "Let’s record an accurate record of the pandemic and demand the Academy revoke his Emmy now — the victims and their families deserve it." The Cuomo administration has faced intense scrutiny since a report by New York State Attorney General Letitia James found his office may have failed to report thousands of deaths tied to nursing homes. Critics have focused on a March 25 memo in which Cuomo directed nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients. The US attorney’s office in Brooklyn launched a federal investigation into top members of Cuomo’s coronavirus task force and their handling of the state’s nursing home crisis. Cuomo has denied wrongdoing and argued public criticism of his leadership is politically motivated.