{"id":180431,"date":"2017-04-20T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/20\/speaking-of-corruption\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T23:30:00","slug":"speaking-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/20\/speaking-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cuomo wrote a very poorly selling memoir.  His publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politics-on-the-hudson\/2017\/04\/18\/gov-andrew-cuomo-memoir\/100616756\/\">paid him $245 for a gook that had a suggested retail price of $29.99<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s low-selling 2014 memoir netted him another $218,100 last year, pushing his total book payments to $783,000 over the past four years, according to his tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo&#8217;s 2016 tax records, which his office made available for review Tuesday, showed the latest round of payments from HarperCollins, the major publisher that gave him a lucrative book deal in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s memoir \u2014 &#8220;<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Things-Possible-Setbacks-Politics-ebook\/dp\/B00IRCRS6M\">All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics in Life<\/a>&#8220;<\/i> \u2014 did not perform well: Just 3,200 copies sold since its release, including just 100 copies over the past two years, according to NPD Books, which tracks book sales nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>It was a money-loser for HarperCollins, which ultimately paid Cuomo about $245 per book sold. It retailed at $29.99.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His Presidential aspirations are the subject of frequent speculation, which would be a f%$#ing disaster.<\/p>\n<p>He needs not to be the Democrats 2020 nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Heck:&nbsp; He needs not to be the Governor New York State.<\/p>\n<p>He needs to be fired \u2026\u2026\u2026 Out of a cannon \u2026\u2026\u2026 Into the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cuomo wrote a very poorly selling memoir. His publisher paid him $245 for a gook that had a suggested retail price of $29.99: Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s low-selling 2014 memoir netted him another $218,100 last year, pushing his total book payments to $783,000 over the past four years, according to his tax returns. Cuomo&#8217;s 2016 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,385,374,656],"class_list":["post-180431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}