Posted on 02/18/2021 4:30:32 AM PST by Libloather
Amid reports of a federal probe into Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths, Democrats from New York's General Assembly and Senate have begun discussing the possibility of stripping Cuomo of broad executive powers granted to him last March to oversee the state's COVID-19 response efforts.
The U.S. Justice Department has been probing Cuomo's COVID-19 task force to determine whether the state had purposefully manipulated data on nursing home deaths, two unnamed people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't allowed to publicly discuss the probe.
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After Assembly member Kim publicly criticized Cuomo's handling of the nursing home deaths in The New York Post, Kim claimed that Cuomo had called his home and threatened to destroy his career if he didn't issue a statement supporting his handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Kim, whose uncle died in a nursing home in 2020 due to a presumed COVID-19 case, told the publication, "There's no undoing here. They have blood on their hands. We're talking about his record of performance in the last 10 months."
On Wednesday morning, Cuomo's senior adviser Rich Azzopardi said in a statement, "Kim's assertion that the governor said he would 'destroy him' is false."
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Next up; how to explain away the Texas windmill fiasco.
There will be a lot of deflecting to the Cruz fiasco.
This is Gavin Newsome going to that restaurant type of idiocy.
When your State is in a crisis of this magnitude you dont jet off to Cancun. Tone Deaf
Someone very important must have had a relative die in a nursing home. They are taking cuomo out.”
Wow! Almost word for word what went thru my head reading the headline.
Evil eyes killed the wrong Gammy or Poppie...
Some think it is because they are clearing way for Harris.
I think that is secondary. They could have done that in any number of ways at any time.
Someone is mad about the death of a loved one.
I put people’s names and dates and epitaphs on their tombstones for a living.
I have learned over thirty-some odd years that there are ties between generations that are far heavier than I am used to. I am involved in the ordering of the work as well as being out in the field and seeing these peopLe actively openly grieving over decades old dust. When I heard what Cuomo did I felt certain that he was in for a world of hurt. I wouldn’t even be remotely be surprised if some one plinked him.
This is nothing more than a small intra party squabble. Cuomo is not going to be impeached or indicted. Rats will eventually circle the wagons around him. And Biden isn’t going to do anything other than to tell the Justice Department to lay off.
I will say is one thing. Real leaders do not blame others when things go south.
They take responsibility and either fix the problems they created, or in this case, resign, because it's the right thing to do.
For some reason, I don't think he's smart enough to do that. He has an inflated view of his own self-importance. He will continue to obfiscate, lie and deny until it's too late and he destroys himself.
Cuomo needs to resign from office before the hole he's digging himself gets any uglier and deeper.
I've always thought of him more as "Sonny" - big mouth, violent thug.
If he killed off some Mafio’s Nonna due to this mess I could see vengeance.
They'll do a sham investigation which will conclude that "mistakes were made" or there were "errors in judgement", but there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Some low level aide will probably take the fall.
Perhaps. But I'm thinking it's just an internal Democrat battle. It's the populist socialists vs the establishment socialists. Think Cuomo as a Joe Crowley and Kim as an AOC.
The democrat party members certainly do not care about the people killed by cuomo so what is the end goal?
Who will replace cuomo?
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