Michael Gormley - Records show NY Gov Cuomo skipped tough questions
March 6, 2012 The record of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first online chat with New Yorkers shows the Democrat skipped an onslaught of increasingly pointed questions about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and some other thorny issues and criticism.
Several New Yorkers asked during the chat to see all the questions, or a way to obtain them. Cuomo didn't answer.
Five months later, the record of the online town meeting was released under a Freedom of Information Law request by The Associated Press, submitted in September.
"We get requests for thousands of pages of documents and respond as quickly as possible," Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said Thursday.
The Sept. 24 chat was part of Cuomo's transparency effort. He plans to release the records obtained by the AP to his Citizens Connects website Thursday (www.governor.ny.gov/citizenconnects/).
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