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Gov. Andrew Cuomo had better not look out his office window — unless he wants to see New Yorkers venting their fury over his multiple scandals.

An upstate Republican lawmaker arranged for a van with a three-sided digital billboard to circle Albany’s Capitol building on Tuesday and display messages directed at Cuomo.

Some attack the three-term Democrat over his handling of nursing homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Cuomo killed my mother,” reads one.

Another, from the advocacy group Voices for Seniors, says in part, “Don’t let Gov. Cuomo get away with murder – INVESTIGATE.”

Another targets the lucrative book deal for Cuomo’s pandemic memoir, “American Crisis,” along with a top aide’s claimed reason for why his administration covered up the total nursing home death toll.

“We were going to sign our own $5 million book deal, but we froze,” it says.

Both of those controversies are being investigated by the FBI and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.

Yet another message mocks Cuomo as “Florida realtor of the year!”

The rolling display of outrage is the brainchild of Assemblyman Mark Walczyk (R-Watertown), who used his “Kick the Crown” campaign website to sell space on the billboards for between $10 and $50 each.

More than 40 were programmed to appear at six-second intervals between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Walczyk said.

Walczyk said he decided to hire the van because the Capitol remains closed to the public despite recent moves by Cuomo to reopen various sectors of the state’s economy — and his Monday announcement that “virtually all” restrictions will be lifted when the state reaches a 70 percent vaccination rate.

“New Yorkers have a right to petition their government for redress of grievances. We kicked the crown out of this state because we deserved a government that heard directly from us and didn’t hide from public scrutiny,” Walczyk said.

“Opening the Capitol building is long overdue and so is electing someone who governs — not crowns themselves king.”

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said he doesn’t “comment on desperate partisan stunts, as craven and lie-filled as they may be.”

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