Rep. Elise Stefanik got a call on her personal cellphone last year, shortly after speaking out against andrew-cuomo” target=”_blank”>Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s<.
On the line was the congresswoman’s longtime pal, top andrew-cuomo” target=”_blank”>Cuomo< executive order, which would have shifted the life-saving medical equipment to hard-hit New York City and the surrounding area, a source told The Post.
But Stefanik — whose upstate congressional district has the largest population of highly vulnerable seniors in the state — wouldn’t relent.
The two women haven’t spoken since.
FILE — In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accompanied by his chief of staff Melissa DeRosa, walks to talk with members of the media after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York. De Rosa, Cuomo’s top aide, told top Democrats frustrated with the administration’s long-delayed release of data about nursing home deaths that the administration "froze" over worries about what information was "going to be used against us," according to a Democratic lawmaker who attended the Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 meeting and a partial transcript provided by the governor’s office. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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As recently as 2019, DeRosa described Stefanik as a rock-steady friend who was always there for her when DeRosa was would call, “practically in tears,” for advice, writer Charlotte Alter tweeted this week.
“And she is so morally supportive and will be there to coach through whatever the issue is,” DeRosa added, according to Alter.
Also that year, DeRosa tweeted that she and Stefanik “may not agree on everything, but I will never stop being in awe of my little sister and middle school student council running-mate…Nothing but class.”
Stefanik — who was re-elected in November — tweeted back, “Thx Missy!” along with a kissy-face emoji.
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2021, file photo Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., introduces Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence to speak to Army 10th Mountain Division soldiers in Fort Drum, N.Y. Conservatives in and out of Congress are expressing opposition to Stefanik’s rise toward House Republicans’ No. 3 leadership job. Stefanik has embraced many of former President Donald Trump’s evidence-free claims about 2020 election fraud. She declared this week that states unconstitutionally changed their election laws and said she supports an audit of Arizona votes that conservatives are using to bolster suspicions about the results. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File)
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But since their fight over andrew-cuomo” target=”_blank”>Cuomo’s<administration covered up the total number of nursing home deaths from infectious-disease
Stefanik tweeted that DeRosa’s recorded remarks were “bombshell admission” of a “stunning and criminal abuse of power” and said they implicated DeRosa in a “massive corruption and coverup scandal at the highest level of New York State Government.”
Leah Aronowitz — whose daughter, Suzanne Cross, was a classmate of both women — said of the fractured friendship, “Of course, it’s sad.”
“This goes to their positions in life and their livelihoods,” Aronowitz said.
“They’re from two very different ends of the political spectrum and politics has become very nasty.”
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A request for comment from DeRosa was answered by andrew-cuomo” target=”_blank”>Cuomo<
