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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Rhode Island and New York conflict

Rhode Island's governor issued a quarantine order that initially only applied to New Yorkers traveling to Rhode Island. Additionally, Rhode Island authorities checked for NY license plates and went door to door looking for New Yorkers. Governor Cuomo threatened to sue Rhode Island over this order, and the governor has now made the order to apply to all out of state travel, not just New York after this threat. Cuomo has been compared to LBJ because of his combination of charm and brute political force. Did RI back off from this NY discrimination just because of Cuomo's threat to sue RI and outside pressure? Or do you think there was more political dealing involved? And what would that look like?
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