Posted on 02/02/2021 11:17:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
New York State Senate Democrats blocked a subpoena for nursing home fatality data on Monday, mere days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report indicating Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration had “undercounted” the number of coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes “by as much as 50 percent.”
Sen. Thomas O’Mara, the top Republican serving on the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, made the motion on Monday during a virtual meeting. The Republican lawmaker said he wanted to “make sure we get to the bottom” of the irregularities in reporting the data on coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes.
The motion followed last week’s report from New York Attorney General Letitia James, which indicated “a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent.”
Health Commissioner Howard Zucker spoke out after the report came out and said the number of coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes stood at 12,743. As the New York Post reported, “that figure was about 4,000 more nursing home resident deaths than previously reported — confirming the attorney general’s finding.”
O’Mara said they considered issuing a subpoena over the course of the last year. Even Sen. James Skoufis, the Democrat chairman of the Investigations Committee, threatened to subpoena the department of health. However, he made his threat prior to the release of the state attorney general’s report, putting him at odds with his Republican colleague on Monday.
As the Post reported:
And then during Monday’s committee meeting, he argued that O’Mara’s motion to issue a subpoena was largely moot after Zucker was forced to release an updated tally of nursing home deaths — that included those who died...
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“Democracy dies in darkness.”
TRANSPARENCY?
A subpoena is merely a legal tool to define the scope of an investigation. The Republicans should simply ask the nursing homes to answer voluntarily. Democrats can’t stop that.
Start with “were you forced to accept known-infected COVID-19 patients?” and then “how many of your residents got sick and died after that?”.
When the facts are not on your side, you block them.
The DemonRats are into TRANS PARENTS, NOT TRANSPARENCY!
IOW, they just admitted their guilt.
And the Republic dies with the sound of thunderous applause.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Sounds a lot like the accusations about election fraud doesn’t it?
IF you had nothing to hide you would support a full and honest investigation knowing the facts were on your side. If you know the facts do not favor you simply block sunlight on the facts.
Democracy dies with Democrats.
So...a judge can quash an executive order as was done to Trump many times.
But the legislature can quash a judge’s order.
Facts?
We don’t needs no stinking FACTS!
There’s that corrupt justice system around every corner now. Nothing good is left of it.
So WHAT are the demonrats trying to HIDE????
LOLs goes out to all the Dead Dem Grannines and Gramps their kids and their grandkids who Generationally vote Dems:-)
Yeah that’s CRUEL but Killer Dems are way crueler!
Somebody “can’t handle the truth.”
Democrats at their finest.
Take cover
Democrats = Demoncrats = Army of Satan
Are they voting absentee?
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