Posted on 03/10/2021 4:20:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Things are looking worse by the hour for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Recently, a fourth, and then a fifth, woman came forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior. At that point, Cuomo's support among top Democrats in New York began to crumble -- apparently, some were okay with three accusers, but not with four or five.
First, the leader of the New York State Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, demanded the governor's resignation. "We need to govern without daily distraction," Stewart-Cousins said. "Gov. Cuomo must resign." Then the leader of the State Assembly, Carl Heastie, suggested Cuomo should quit when he said the governor should "seriously consider whether he can effectively meet the needs of the people of New York."
Cuomo had a simple answer: No. "I'm not going to resign because of allegations," Cuomo said in response to Stewart-Cousins and Heastie, who are, of course, both Democrats. "There is no way I resign."
And who is going to make him? It's unclear what kind of pressure would force Cuomo out. If he resists the conventional kind -- politicians of his own party calling on him to quit -- then the legislature can remove him. New York's impeachment process is roughly similar to the impeachment process for the president of the United States laid out in the Constitution. Like a federal impeachment, removing Cuomo would be an arduous task.
So the question is whether Cuomo can do a Ralph Northam. Remember, he is the governor of Virginia who was mired in scandal when, in January 2019, a photo surfaced of him in blackface, at a party years before, when he was in medical school. The calls for Northam's resignation were intense, but he just didn't do it. He just said no. And no one made him. Northam remains in office today.
Yes, the Northam and Cuomo cases are different. For one thing, the politicians who would have succeeded Northam, Virginia's Democratic lieutenant governor and attorney general, were also beset by scandal, making Northam's departure less appealing to Democrats. In New York, the person who would succeed Cuomo, Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, is scandal-free and ready to go. So it would actually be more politically palatable to Democrats to remove Cuomo than Northam. But in any event, Cuomo is digging in.
Meanwhile, here is the thing that blows Republican minds: Cuomo might go down because of his #MeToo problem, and not because of his horrendous mishandling of the COVID crisis. Remember that Cuomo presided over one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world. Lives were lost by the thousands.
The problem is not just Cuomo's efforts to hide the number of nursing home COVID deaths after he had recklessly forced the homes to accept COVID patients -- although that seems bad enough to force a governor to resign. It's also Cuomo's handling of the virus in the early days of the pandemic.
In April 2020, the New York Times reported on the process by which Cuomo came to order a statewide lockdown. New York officials had been closely watching events in California. On March 19, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a lockdown. At that moment, California had 675 confirmed COVID cases, according to the Times. At that time, the Times reported, New York State had 4,152 cases. Still, Cuomo resisted a shutdown. He dragged his feet. There was an overnight debate with top aides. Finally, the next day, Cuomo ordered the shutdown. "By that point, March 20, [New York] had more than 7,000 confirmed cases," the Times said. The virus went on to ravage the state.
Together with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio -- the two were often at each others' throats -- Cuomo tragically mismanaged the COVID outbreak. Today, according to the website Worldometers, New York has suffered 2,497 deaths per million population, while California has suffered 1,372 deaths per million. The toll has been terrible around the country, but as far as states are concerned, only New Jersey's death toll, 2,654 per million, is worse than Cuomo's New York.
But Cuomo bragged about what a great job he did. And Democrats and their allies in the media celebrated him as a model of how to fight the virus, making Cuomo a hero while they trashed then-President Donald Trump day after day. In an act of chutzpah difficult to fathom even today, in mid-pandemic Cuomo wrote a book about his "success" in handling the virus, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic." Then Cuomo received an International Emmy for his "masterful" briefings on the virus.
And then came the nursing home revelations. Last week, the Times published a story headlined, "Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll." Thousands of New Yorkers whose loved ones died in the pandemic wondered if Cuomo had told the truth about the circumstances of the deaths. He hadn't.
Cuomo's COVID disaster was a matter of life and death. Nothing could be more serious. And yet, it was apparently not enough for New York Democrats to call for his resignation -- until the #MeToo allegations began. Now, he must go, some Democrats say. The whole situation has left some on the right understandably baffled about political priorities in New York State.
The Liberal fascist BIMBO parade continues and will take Cupmo out when in fact he should be indicted for murder or manslaughter of the elderly.
This is a pu$$y driven “passer par tout.”
And I have to laugh at how all the female announcers on Fox News have sucked it right up and made it the prominent story.
“CUOMO IS A PU$$Y PLUNDERER!”
has now outdone the fact that he is a genocidal maniac so he won;t face crimninal charges, neither will Whitmer or Murphy and others who did similar crimes.
There are times when I think that women should never have been given the vote, This is one of them.
Sexual harassment has outdone genocide in the minds of American women and its not even “rape.”
Oh the pu$$ified moral turpitude! ( sarc.)
The leftist PU$$Y parade continues while thousands of victims of Lefty Trump Hater Dem genocide lay rotting in their graves.
And there is no journalism ?
WHAT PUKE!
I for one am not being driven crazy.
The reason Cuomo is being pressured to resign has nothing to do with the issues, because the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution. It is simply because he has outlived his usefulness to the revolution, and it is time to purge him and others, as with Stalin’s purges, or Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives, or Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
And don’t be surprised if Blacqueface Northam is next, along with Old White Male Joe. The issue is always the revolution.
Hope he stays there.
Nothing like keeping the lunatic legislature distracted as much as possible from further destroying the state.
Only people who have not been paying attention are baffled.
Getting rid of President Trump was priority #1. Killing a few tens of thousands of other people was a "small" price to pay.
Now that President Trump is safely out of office, the offensive Cuomo, who, apparantly no one even likes, can be exposed.
But sexual harrassment claims are much more important to the Left than the deaths of old people.
Besides, those old people died in a "noble" cause. Getting rid of President Trump.
Why don’t you tell us what you really think. LOL
Seriously, you are correct.
Considering how depraved and utterly corrupt the rat party is, Cuomo could very will be POTUS someday. The bimbo thing will fade into history as it did for Bill Clinton, and paying off Dominion will ensure a victory.
It’s how banana republics work!
Murdering the elderly takes a backseat to groping bimbos (once the number gets past 3).
New York needs to have the recall mechanism that California has. Our tyrannical governor Gavin Newsom will almost certainly be facing a recall election later this year.
Not driving me crazy. I know how it works. For a Dem, bad behavior isn’t that bad, and the media will always cover, unless there is a more “progressive” Dem to take the bad actor’s place.
None of that applies to Republicans.
The people get what they vote for.
It’s all of the above. Psychopaths do not care about women, children or the elderly. History has shown us that.
This illustrates how difficult it is to get a pol out of office if he has a name and a political party. Justice for all.
It doesn’t drive me “crazy” at all. As a dem in NY, nothing will happen to Cuomo. Through this, he still maintains high approval ratings. He will run for, and win reelections.
*reelection.
“The whole situation has left some on the right understandably baffled about political priorities in New York State.”
Why? Other than when killers are on Death Row, when has the Democrats ever valued life? Republicans STILL have no clue as to who these people are and what they plan to do to our side.
This is why the country’s gone and I’m outta here!
Back in the day when the word “law” meant something the bimbo’s would be out of luck if they finally say “he touched me” AFTER the statute of limitations had expired on their “touching”.
I utterly despise Cuomo and all his radical democrat buddies. But replacing him with another socialist/radical is not going to help conservatives so in the interim let’s not be hypocrites.
Doesn’t bother me. Another corrupt blue state governor I’m thankful has no control over me.
Thousands of elderly may have died in the nursing home fiascos of New York, but our sacred pu$$ies must be protected at all costs!
I’ll show you how ludicrous it is:
A parody of Samuel Adams:
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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to keeping their pu$$y safe; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best accusative manner they can.
The pu$$y of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend our pu$$y against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased those pu$$ies for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer our pu$$ies to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of our pu$$ies by the artifices of false and designing men.
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If women cannot defend themselves nor be educated on how to do so, all is lost. The tax payers will be made to foot the bill to both abort them and keep them used but not abused.
For what? I do not see many men lining up, in fact a lit of themn are marrying overseas just to have someone to stay home and raise children while they themselves work.
Meanwhile I watch the left’s bimbo parade against Cuomo with a great deal of hilarity and ridicule. We have much more crucial fish to fry , like putting Cuomo in jail and saving our nation form demographic warfare from our Southern border.
Who really cares about a bunch of hopped up lefty women decrying gubernatorial sexual bullying right now? In the middle of a pandemic withg 500,000 dead Americans, and its STILL about their pu$$ie?
I thought women were smarter than that.
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