17 March 2021: Editorial - Time for Cuomo Impeachment is Now

Start impeachment hearings against Gov. Cuomo now

The editors of the New York Post think New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is stalling, using the pretense of investigation sexual harassment allegations. The editors note that if Heastie was serious, there's no need to wait to start the impeachment hearings because of all the accumulated evidence for Governor Cuomo's COVID nursing homes scandal.

In public, Heastie pretends to stand on principle. But in a private four-hour video conference call with the Democratic caucus last week, he urged his fellow Dems not to draft any articles of impeachment, since “people get accused of things,” referring to the sexual-harassment allegations.

Right: Vetting all that will take time. But while it needs doing, Attorney General Tish James is on the job. Yet Heastie has hired an outside law firm to go over the same ground — when this is work the Legislature doesn’t need to do.

The nursing-home outrages are more than enough to justify removing the gov. Plenty of officials will gladly testify about being muscled into the coverup, which Team Cuomo has admitted to.

Yet the speaker also wants the inquiry to include the harassment allegations and claims that contractors used faulty bolts in the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Throw in enough kitchen sinks, and the probe will never end.

It was the revelation of Governor Cuomo's coverup of the extent of COVID deaths among nursing home residents during the time his administration's deadly directive was in effect that made his forced ouster from office inevitable. Unless, of course, Speaker Heastie is okay with all those deaths and being lied to about it. Has anyone asked him or any of the politicians wanting to stage an investigation of the governor's alleged sexual harassment if they are okay with all those deaths?