{"id":2101,"date":"2021-08-10T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:06:28","slug":"statement-from-speaker-corey-johnson-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/08\/10\/2101\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Corey Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re:\u00a0Governor Andrew\u00a0Cuomo&#8217;s Resignation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, NY \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Gov. Cuomo abused his power and disgraced his office. His resignation signals a new chapter for our state. This Council is eager to support Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will become the first woman governor of New York.\u00a0\u00a0It is regretful that this historic milestone was achieved under these tragic circumstances, but we are confident that her years of experience serving New Yorkers will help lead us to better days ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I once again thank Attorney General Letitia James for the independent report, as well as her team. And I commend the women who came forward to share their stories.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re:\u00a0Governor Andrew\u00a0Cuomo&#8217;s Resignation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, NY \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Gov. Cuomo abused his power and disgraced his office. His resignation signals a new chapter for our state. This Council is eager to support Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will become the first woman governor of New York.\u00a0\u00a0It is regretful that this historic milestone was achieved under these tragic circumstances, but we are confident that her years of experience serving New Yorkers will help lead us to better days ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/08\/10\/2101\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}