13 March 2021: Editorial - NY Lawmakers Already Have All the Evidence They Need to Act

Don't drag out Cuomo's impeachment — lawmakers already have all the evidence they need

This editorial lays out the case for a fair, rapid impeachment process for New York's legislature:

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie last week gave the go-ahead for the Judiciary Committee to start an impeachment investigation, but that doesn't remotely guarantee the swift action that New Yorkers deserve.

Simply put: Any fair effort to get to the bottom of the avalanche of sexual-harassment allegations could take months — whereas legislators already have all the evidence they need to move to impeach Gov. Cuomo immediately for his nursing-home horrors.

Indeed they do. The editorial goes on to explain how they can move quickly if they put their priorities in the right order, for the right reasons:

It's not just his deadly March 25 order for care homes to admit COVID-contagious patients, knowing as he did that the virus would likely spread "like fire" in such facilities. Or the even more shocking news The Post reported Friday that, though he rescinded that order, a similar mandate covering homes for the developmentally disabled remains in effect even now.

Far worse is the conspiracy to cover up the deadly results of the March mandate, by shifting to a unique-to-New-York count of care-home deaths that left out fatalities that came after the patient was moved to a hospital.

Team Cuomo lied to the people of New York and to federal authorities who needed accurate info to help understand how to fight the bug. It browbeat Health Department officials into leaving the truth out of a key report last July. It stonewalled legislators who asked for the full figures and made a mockery of the Freedom of Information Law by refusing to hand over the data despite valid requests. It even lied about why it lied, pretending the coverup was to avoid persecution by the Trump administration.

Governor Cuomo did not act alone in all of this. Cleaning up the devastation caused by "Team Cuomo", the Democratic Party apparatchiks in the government, in the state's institutions, and in the media who all conspired to deny New Yorkers of their liberties and their lives in their pursuit of power and control, can only begin with the tyrant's impeachment for what he wrought in New York's nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

After Cuomo falls, the reckoning for the rest of the complicit can begin. As it must.