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THE NEWSLETTER THAT NEVER SLEEPS
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This is the sixteenth edition of The Newsletter That Never Sleeps, from April 22nd, 2021. Any new subscribers can read all previous editions, which include breakdowns of local races, ranked choice voting, public safety and COVID recovery here. Welcome!
Hey folks, quick programming update: I’m starting a social experiment/prank next week called “going to law school” and will have a lot less time to keep tabs on current affairs.
As such, The Newsletter That Never Sleeps will go bi-weekly (or semi-weekly, whichever one means once every two weeks) for the foreseeable future unless something really crazy happens.
However, news has been pretty slow lately, and I don’t expect anything Earth shattering over the next few weeks, so a bi-weekly format should work out fine. Let me just take a big sip of coffee and check my phone, which I haven’t looked at since yesterday morning for some reason.
WELL, I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE WHOLE CUOMO THING
I’ve been wrong only a handful of times in my life- in fact, I’m on record at [REDACTED] as having been the most consistently correct person alive. Of the few times I’ve ever been wrong about something, though, I’ve never been happier to have made a completely incorrect prediction.
At 11:45 on August 10th (my mom’s birthday!), Andrew Cuomo announced an impromptu press conference. None in the media, nor those in Cuomo’s office outside of his shrinking inner circle of advisers, had any forewarning that Cuomo was going on TV.
This time last year, Cuomo was appearing on televisions across the state daily for millions of doting New Yorkers, reaching such heights of popularity that there were legitimate discussions of finding Andrew Cuomo a place on the Democratic Presidential ticket.
A year later, Andrew Cuomo was back on the air to announce his resignation. After losing his Secretary and closest advisor, Melissa DeRosa over the weekend, and many calls with his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, the notoriously arrogant and strong-headed Andrew Cuomo threw up the white flag- something no one expected him to do.
Cuomo’s lawyers were given until Friday the 13th (boo!) to send in any pertinent evidence or documents to the State Assembly Judiciary Committee, which was ramping up an impeachment investigation that began to look more and more like it would materialize in an impeachment hearing, which, according to the Times and other sources, would find Cuomo guilty. Both the Assembly and the State Senate had whipped enough votes to convict Cuomo on whatever charges the Judiciary Committee would press against the Governor.
Cuomo showed no sign of giving in, though. The son of a three term Governor, himself a former state Attorney General and HUD Secretary to Bill Clinton, Cuomo was used to having a tight grasp on New York politics from an ivory tower so unreachable that the concept of anyone, even the state legislature, having the upper hand over him seemed impossible to comprehend. Cuomo appeared to be calling their bluff.
However, something must have happened after DeRosa’s, who was named over a several times in AG James’ report on Cuomo’s 11 cases of sexual harassment and helped coordinate a smear campaign against his accusers, departure.
Perhaps no one in the legislature would return Cuomo’s threatening calls, and all he could do was leave angry voicemails threatening to destroy their career if they kicked him out of office. Maybe Cuomo and his attorneys were spooked over the possible criminal charges filed against him in Long Island, where a State Trooper who had been singled out by Cuomo to join his personal detail (and was subsequently groped by Cuomo in an elevator) filed a suit against the embattled Governor.
Any number of straws could have broken the camel’s back. Whatever it was, the danger of impeachment and possible prosecution suddenly became all too real. For the first time in his life, Andrew Cuomo was facing consequences for his actions. If he were impeached, he would be barred from ever holding public office again, lose his pension and possibly go down a road towards more criminal charges. And so he chose to “step aside”, as Cuomo put it, for the better of the state.
It’s difficult to comprehend how quickly Cuomo fell from grace. A YouGov poll released on the 11th found Cuomo as the most unpopular national figure surveyed in their poll with a -48% approval rating. Only a few days after James’ investigation report dropped, Quinnipiac reported that 70% of New Yorkers wanted him out of office. That was a +45% increase from March, when allegations against Cuomo began to pile up.
I think the best way to understand why and how Cuomo fell so quickly is to look beyond just the scope of the Attorney General’s report. In the TV series BoJack Horseman (skip this section if you don’t want spoilers), the titular horse eventually gets his comeuppance after decades of abusive and dangerous behavior. He’s specifically locked up for trespassing in his foreclosed house, but, as he says, he believes the conviction was “kind of for everything.”
The AG report, and Cuomo’s subsequent resignation, was officially spurred by Cuomo’s sexual harassment cases. But it was sort of for everything. After decades of making enemies, threatening allies and underlings, fostering a statewide environment of intimidation, permitting (and perhaps participating in) rampant corruption in the private sector at the cost of public programs, lying about the COVID deaths in nursing homes, signing a secret book deal in the middle of a pandemic, sabotaging his own party in the state legislature and abusing his office for his own personal and political gain, the dam could no longer hold. The AG report sent the floodwater rushing out.
It was a quick turnaround for New Yorkers, who all suddenly found a reason to want Cuomo out of office. Republicans, though treated better by Cuomo than any Governor since Pataki, were happy to see Cuomo go. Progressives had long wanted him gone for his ties to the IDC and aversion to any social safety net programs that benefited the working class. Independents, and pretty much everyone else, could find something to be mad about for his handling of COVID. His core Democratic base, who had reliably propped up Cuomo since his election to the AG office, realized he had become too destructive and toxic to govern effectively.
If that was all buzzing in the back of New Yorkers’ heads, did we actually ever like Cuomo? Maybe. It depends on a person to person basis. But once Cuomo announced his resignation, even traditional moderate Democrats were fine with seeing Cuomo gone. For many, it was the AG’s report that had confirmed what those around them had been saying for years: Cuomo is a bad Governor, and a worse person.
To be fair to his base, Cuomo was making it really hard to support him in the last days before his resignation. Even before he announced that he would leave office, he denied all claims of wrongdoing, tried to frame the 11 sexual assault accusations as just generational misunderstandings of showing affection rather than a longstanding predatory behavior of domineering, degrading and intimidating those below him.
He claimed that he had only singled out the Long Island State Trooper to his personal detail because, apparently, his personal detail wasn’t diverse enough (the trooper is a Black woman) and he wanted to make sure his security team was representative of all New Yorkers. Sure!
And then there was the head scratching slideshow Cuomo’s team presented of the Governor hugging and kissing dozens of people, supposedly exonerating evidence proving that Cuomo didn’t just inappropriately touch his staff, he touched everyone inappropriately, that included a picture with a woman labelled as State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Cousins-Stewart. The picture was not of Cousins-Stewart, but of another middle aged Black woman who had, at best, a bare resemblance to Cousins-Stewart.
There were the tears. And then there were the leaked emails in the AG report from Melissa DeRosa telling Cuomo to fake tears on air to garner sympathy. It was just a disaster of a coverup.
Cuomo will leave office on August 24th, future uncertain. Will the State Assembly continue with their impeachment inquiry with Cuomo out of office? Will the District Attorneys in Albany, Buffalo and Long Island drop their criminal investigations into Cuomo’s behavior? Will he retreat from public life forever, or try to make a comeback once the storm’s cleared? Will he get to keep his Emmy? And what of his brother, Chris Cuomo, who used his media expertise to council his brother through the allegations coverup?
All of this is still up in the air. On a governing level, Kathy Hochul will become the 57th Governor of New York when Cuomo leaves office; she is expected to be sworn in on the 24th, and gave a press conference from Albany on Wednesday to lay out her team’s transition plan. Hochul, who has not spoken to Cuomo since February, was unaware of the Governor’s plan to resign, but says her team was preparing to assume the Governorship should Cuomo leave office.
Though this may be putting salt in the wound, Atlantic columnist Ross Barkan noted this about Andrew Cuomo, so singularly focused on his power and legacy that he sabotaged an elite and all powerful career handed to him on a silver platter:
“When Andrew Cuomo dies, the first line of his front page New York Times obituary will mention that he resigned from office in disgrace.
COVID RECOVERY
Newly Reported Cases (7/29–8/4): 1,513 avg. daily cases (+39%)
Newly Reported Hospitalizations: 697 avg. hospitalized patients (+45%)
The power shift in Albany could not have come at a worse time regarding COVID protocol. Cuomo’s statewide vaccine mandates for government employees are slowly rolling out, and Bill de Blasio’s more encompassing, effective citywide NYC vaccine mandate is going into effect later this month.
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to ravage the country, driving cases up back into the 100,000+ new cases a day territory, the CDC and FDA are coming into agreement over the necessity of eventual booster shots of the COVID vaccines.
Pfizer had already suggested that it would recommend a third booster shot later in the year to renew immunity against a stronger strain of the virus, though the CDC said it was unnecessary at the time. The CDC, as it does, changed its mind on Tuesday when the FDA announced it would amend their emergency use authorization of the COVID vaccines to allow for a booster shot for the immunocompromised, and, likely those over 65.
The CDC got on board with that, and it’s likely that booster shots will come from all three major vaccine manufacturers in the next few months, as the current vaccines’ protective power over the Delta variant is slightly diminishing as the months pass from the initial jabs.
In New York, where the rise in cases has slowed down a bit, things don’t seem quite so dire. The past two days have seen a slight decline in new cases, though hospitalizations are still increasing, so it’s unclear if that’s just a fluke in a larger upward trend. Nonetheless, the Northeast and Mid Atlantic are experiencing the most modest of the national surges in cases; about 15 in 100,000 people report a new COVID case daily, or about .01% of the population.
That’s not the case in the South, particularly in Louisiana and Florida, where approximately .1% of the population is reportedly contracting COVID daily. And those are just the reported numbers- Florida in particular obfuscates their daily COVID reports, and there are undoubtedly thousands with COVID who aren’t getting tested.
All this has culminated in a battle over masks in schools; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (probably the odds-on favorite to win the 2024 Republican nomination for President if Trump doesn’t run) has threatened to cut off any public school from state and federal funding if they implement mask mandates in classrooms.
A similar scuffle is emerging in New York over whether mask mandates will be necessary for the first in person class sessions since March of 2020. Given that public school teachers fall under the statewide vaccine mandate, there shouldn’t be much risk of spread to children, who are more vulnerable to the Delta variant than the traditional Alpha strain. However, it’s unclear how much of the DOE is currently vaccinated, and whether children can transmit the disease after catching it outside of school.
Right now, Bill de Blasio is committed to not implementing any new mandates, as that’s probably Eric Adams’ problem, and Kathy Hochul hasn’t made any indication as to whether she’ll reinstate any of Andrew Cuomo’s mask mandates from 2020. School starts soon, so we’ll see what elected officials opt for once cases spike or don’t spike after classes get back together
VACCINATIONS:
Brooklyn: 49% fully vaccinated (+1), 60% adults vaccinated (-)
The Bronx: 47% fully vaccinated (+1), 59% adults vaccinated (+1)
Manhattan: 66% fully vaccinated (-), 74% adults vaccinated (-)
Staten Island: 52% fully vaccinated (+1), 63% adults vaccinated (+1)
Queens: 62% fully vaccinated (+1), 74% adults vaccinated (+1)
There’s some movement on the whole “everyone in NYC basically has to get vaccinated now” thing, though many in the Bronx and Brooklyn have pointed out that access to the vaccine isn’t quite as simple as it is in Manhattan or Queens.
De Blasio, and probably Hochul when she gets into office, to some degree, will have to figure out how to get majority-minority and immigrant communities vaccinated. Whether that’s paid sick days for any vaccine side effects, ads reassuring that the vaccine is free and available to anyone regardless of immigration status or age (above 12 of course), better access to vaccines, or some combination of the three, I don’t know. They all seem pretty important in getting some of the most vulnerable communities in NYC vaccinated.
More and more private businesses, including large employers like Related, are implementing vaccine mandates to return to work. The economic incentive to get the shot, at the cost of losing your job, should be enough to convince even the most ardent anti-vaxxers, but who knows.
It’s probably though this avenue of economic coercion that de Blasio will pursue a more muscular vaccination program, it just remains unclear what safety nets there are for those who might miss days of work that they can’t miss for those going to get the vaccine.
As of August 11th, 2021, courtesy of the New York Times
WHO IS KATHY HOCHUL, THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK?
Oh yeah, who is Kathy Hochul, who will become the first female Governor in New York’s 400 year history on August 24th?
The role of the Lieutenant Governor, particularly in New York, isn’t a really great gig. It’s essentially like the VP role for the President, but without any of the legislative responsibilities. So that leads them to do… pretty much whatever small pet project the Governor assigns them.
Kathy Hochul hails from Western New York, specifically Erie County, where she served as Erie County Executive before narrowly winning a seat in Congress in the light red district twice. She would go on to lose reelection to a full second term (she had won the seat in a special election and won a full term the following year) as the district became more Republican-leaning, and Hochul would go on to work in finance and governmental relations.
Cuomo picked Hochul to serve as LG in 2014 in his campaign for his second term. His first Lieutenant Governor was so bored with the job, completely shut out by Cuomo from any executive responsibility, that he was caught applying to other jobs while still serving as Lieutenant Governor. He got the job (the CEO of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce), and ditched Cuomo, who didn’t really seem to mind or even notice.
Hochul was able to garner support for Cuomo in Western NY, where he had underperformed in 2010. She was also quite friendly to the business community, was politically in line with Cuomo, and had a kind demeanor that offset Cuomo’s combative behavior.
Since assuming the role of LG, Hochul was similarly shut out of the Executive Branch. Hochul’s job in the Cuomo administration was to revitalize the decimated Western New York business and manufacturing community and to advocate for Cuomo’s agenda statewide- literally. Hochul visits all of New York’s 57 counties at least once, sometimes twice a year, a feat only matched yearly by Senator Chuck Schumer.
Though she may not have done much in the official Cuomo administration, particularly, she was absent from the admin’s COVID response (probably for the better, honestly, because she’s probably the one woman in the Executive Branch who had no idea about the nursing home scandal). But she does have decades of executive experience in the public and private sectors under her belt as well as a deep familiarity with the State and Federal legislatures, and knows the lay of the land (literally) quite well. She seems more than well equipped to take on the role of Governor, even during the rather trying time in which she finds herself ascending to office.
As previously stated, Hochul was pretty much politically in line with Cuomo. A Blue Dog Democrat born and bred on Republican turf, Hochul has clashed a bit with more progressive factions of the party in the past, leaving the left flank of the party a bit weary over prospects of moving past the legislative quagmire Cuomo created around passing progressive legislation.
As Erie County Executive, she made headlines defying Governor Patterson’s order to give out government licenses to illegal immigrants, saying she would arrest any undocumented immigrant who attempted to grab an ID. No one was arrested, and Hochul was, more than anything, signaling a socially conservative stance towards immigration in her Republican district, because, you know, there are so many illegal immigrants flooding East Aurora.
Hochul has since apologized for her statements, and says she’s politically evolved since then, which seems to be the case. She leans a bit more to the right of the center of the Democratic party, a bit like Joe Biden and Cuomo before her, but, importantly, has a reputation as an affable and down to earth negotiator who is a bit more open to discussion and disagreement than her predecessor.
As such, though she’ll probably govern in the same political lane as Cuomo, her governing style will probably open up more avenues for compromise and, in a state where both houses of the legislature are overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, lead to a more succinct pipeline of progressive legislation should state lawmakers see it fit.
She may be a bit averse to bail reform and heed calls to reform the bail reform, and her position on marijuana, which only recently became legalized for recreational use in New York, is unknown, but it’s unlikely she’ll make a sharp rightward or leftward turn that will complicate the Governor’s relationship with the rest of state government.
Her positions on current COVID protocols are also unclear, as she’s probably getting caught up to speed daily on the current situation and the science of it all, and as such will probably rely on much of Cuomo’s scientific team to advise her on retaining or rescinding current protocol. Other than Cuomo’s COVID team, Hochul has made it clear she plans to clear house in most other senior positions, sacking whatever major Cuomo leftovers are still in office.
Hochul is also likely to run for a full term in 2022, and, unless something disastrous happens, it’s unlikely there’ll be a strong primary contender against her. AG Letitia James is widely regarded as the strongest Democrat in the state to run a gubernatorial campaign, but the political differences between her and Hochul are pretty slim, and James may want to take a step back from running for higher office given that she’s the reason Cuomo is resigning. However, that same dynamic didn’t stop Attorney General Cuomo from running for Governor in 2010.
The Left will probably be a bit distrustful of Hochul, given her past socially conservative positions (including an A+ rating from the NRA until 2012) and ties to big business and finance. If she governs to the right of Cuomo, progressives may try to prop up a legitimate contender against her before she wins a full term in her own right. The person for the job would probably be Jumaane Williams, who ran against Hochul for Lieutenant Governor in 2018, though Williams is a bit green to run for Governor just yet.
So we’ll see over the course of the next few months if it’s open season in 2022, which would be absolute pandemonium, as literally dozens of politicians, ranging from Nassau County Executives to Hillary Clinton, all have generated some rumors about a potential 2022 run. However, it’s just as likely that Hochul does a good enough job to placate everyone in the midst of the Delta wave and close off any avenues for a successful primary.
Hochul will have been in office for 2 days when the next edition of TNTNS comes out, so I’ll be able to fully assess the next 8 months-9 years of Hochul’s political career by then. We’ll check in later.
CITY READS
Cuomo’s Exit Could Kick Off Game of Political Musical Chairs For Governor’s Seat and More, by Clifford Michael and Yoav Gonan
A who’s who of who could get into the scramble to get in on the current political instability in Albany, including past fan favorites such as City Comptroller Corey Johnson, Bill de Blasio, and, yes, Hillary Clinton.
They Came for Covid Vaccines. They Got $100., by Sara Aridi
Visual graphics from the first few days of Bill de Blasio’s $100 for a COVID vaccine program, which has, thus far, attracted over 43,000 New Yorkers.
NY lawmakers want Cuomo impeachment probe to continue despite Cuomo resignation, by Denis Slattery
Looks like Cuomo isn’t out of the woods yet- the state legislature, as of now, seems to determined to carry on with its long running impeachment investigation.
Hochul’s first big decision: Who will replace her?, by Bill Mahoney
Oh yeah, someone else has to be Lieutenant Governor, now. They’ll probably share a greater role in Hochul’s administration, though it’s unclear how Hochul plans to balance out her ticket for a formidable election year.
POLLING WATCH
Slingshot Strategies (8/6–8/7)
Among registered voters:
If the Democratic primary for Governor of New York State were today and Andrew Cuomo was running, how would you vote?
Governor Andrew Cuomo: 26%
Attorney General Letitia James: 9%
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 8%
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: 6%
Former NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia: 6%
Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul: 4%
Former United States Attorney Preet Bharara: 4%
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli: 3%
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: 3%
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer: 3%
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney: 2%
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams: 2%
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone: 2%
Representative Tom Suozzi: 2%
State Senator Alessandra Biaggi: 1%
Unsure: 1%
This poll was on the field before Cuomo announced his resignation, but after the drop of the AG report, so we can see a snapshot of how bad the electoral consequences of the past week have been for Cuomo. While, yes, he does lead this poll, it’s better to look at this not as “26% of people would vote for Andrew Cuomo, the incumbent three term Governor”, but rather “74% of people would not vote for Andrew Cuomo, the incumbent three term Governor”.
The field is very large and full of names most New Yorkers don’t know, so this isn’t really a scientifically sound poll, but there are a few indicators that can shine some light on what a possible 2022 primary would look like.
Particularly, this isn’t great news for incoming Governor Kathy Hochul, who comes in 6th place with 4% of the vote, behind the Sanitation Commissioner who came in 2nd place in the NYC Mayoral Primary and AOC. Granted, she was not a known quantity at the time, and some time in office will undoubtedly serve her electoral prospects among Democrats well, but this just goes to show that Hochul is really starting from nowhere, and therefore, could be a more vulnerable candidate in a contested primary.
It’s also really bad news for progressives, particularly those who wanted to see Jumaane Williams or Alessandra Biaggi take a stab at the governorship. AOC is on this poll just for fun; there’s no world in which she runs for Governor. Williams, though, could. The NYC Public Advocate to State Attorney General pipeline is pretty well established (it’s how Letitia James got to where she is), and the ascension of State AG to Governor is so commonplace in New York that the role of AG is sometimes jokingly referred to as “Aspiring Governor”.
However, Williams only garners 2% of support here. In a more compact field where Williams stood as the progressive standard bearer, he would undoubtedly garner more support, though the presence of James in the fields complicates things. Williams and James would both be jockeying for the support of Black Democrats and White liberals; both are attainable for each candidate, but it appears that Letitia James, who the poll refers to as “Tish” James, her nickname, has more pull statewide than Williams.
In a hypothetical world where Kathy Hochul isn’t particularly popular next year, it appears James would be the best candidate to take her down in the primary, though there is that optic of “Letitia James took out Cuomo, now she’s running for his old job just a year later” that could spoil peoples’ opinions of James. However, the AG is young, and has plenty of time to run for Governor in future cycles if she so pleases.
HOW MUCH IS REDISTRICTING GOING TO AFFECT NEW YORK CITY? PROBABLY A GOOD AMOUNT, AND THE OUTLOOK ISN’T GOOD FOR THE GOP
Every ten years, the State Legislature oversees the commissioning and redrawing of the state’s electoral districts at the federal, state and municipal level. Once official results from the 2020 Census are published later tonight, state officials will have more demographic data to go off of in drawing up new maps of the state.
Most importantly for New York is that we lost 1 congressional seat to Minnesota (by a margin of only 89 people), and therefore the entire New York congressional map will need to be redrawn for a 26 district map.
Democrats, who have supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature in New York, are against gerrymandering, on principle, which squeezes different disparate communities into insane looking congressional maps to maximize the congressional gains of a particular party. Nationally, Republicans command the redistricting process by a 2 to 1 margin over Democrats, so it’s politically expedient for Democrats to stand against gerrymandering.
However, in states where Democrats have the upper hand on redistricting, such as New York, the Democrats seem to have no qualms over redistricting the state to shut out as many GOP lawmakers as possible. Though the commission to officially draw the map is bipartisan, consisting of 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans and 2 non partisan members, the State Legislature technically has final say over the map.
After a number of hearings throughout August and early September with different interest groups hoping to preserve specific ethnic and demographic enclaves in certain districts, the commission will propose a map of new Congressional, State Senate and State Assembly Districts. The City Council has an entirely different redistricting process which doesn’t even put on a guise of nonpartisanship, though there are so few Republicans in the chamber that it’s really not worth squeezing out the GOP holdouts.
The first map will almost certainly be rejected by the legislature, which is by design. Once the legislature “can’t agree” to any specific map drawn up by the commission, the State Senate is allowed to take matters into their own hands and force a map more favorable to Democrats.
Since we’re losing 1 congressional seat, Democrats will almost certainly want to squeeze out a Republican in Congress, possibly more. In New York City, Democrats will almost certainly try to oust freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in NY-11, who represents Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn. The obvious move would be to incorporate more of western Brooklyn, particularly Gowanus and Red Hook, into the district and remove Bay Ridge, which would turn NY-11 into a Trump +10 district into a Biden +10 district.
This would eliminate the only Republican from the NYC congressional delegation, though the blue-ness of NY-11 in the future depends on how much of Brooklyn is incorporated into the district.
We should be getting some preliminary maps soon, as most hearings will conclude in the next couple of weeks and there’ll be some leaks over what the commission plans to draw, though there aren’t any official deadlines until January of 2022.
In the end, though, it matters less what the commission proposes, and more what the legislature decides is the best way to move forward in forcing out Republicans in what will be an extremely close race for the House in 2022.
New York is one of only a handful of states where Democrats have final say over the redistricting process, and the NY delegation will see it as their responsibility to counteract inevitable Republican gains from gerrymandering in other states.
Democrats can also really play with the map to try to squeeze out House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, who used to be a pretty moderate Republican, but since ousting Liz Cheney earlier this year for her House leadership position, has taken a pretty far rightward turn to the extent she’s now claiming that Nancy Pelosi was ultimately responsible for the January 6th attack on the Capitol, a claim I can’t even begin to wrap my head around.
No one openly supports gerrymandering, but at the end of the day, the parties are gonna look out for number one.
Thanks for reading this edition of The Newsletter That Never Sleeps. If you have any feedback, leads, stories, or just want to reach out, feel free to email me at kigraulich@gmail.com or @kieranian_ on Twitter.
