24 March 2021: Assembly Leaders "Slow-Rolling" Impeachment Probe?

State Assemblyman Robert Smullen: Cuomo has lost our confidence to govern

This commentary by New York Assemblyman Robert Smullen (R,C,I, SAM-Meco) calls for the state legislature to hold Governor Cuomo accountable for misdeeds in office. That's not surprising, but he questions the approach of the majority Democrats in running the Assembly's impeachment probe:

A Legislature's responsibility is the equal representation of the people throughout the state to make laws. It also serves to check the co-equal branches of the executive and judiciary when necessary to hold them accountable.

So while the Assembly Democrats are slowly moving toward an investigation that may lead to an impeachment vote, I doubt that their motive is justice for the victims of this governor's actions. They simply want to maintain policy leverage for a progressive budget.

My biggest concern in this due process comes from the fact that the Assembly Judiciary Committee is slow-rolling its own investigation by hiring outside lawyers. If committee members were serious, they would immediately empanel a bipartisan impeachment commission with subpoena powers to hear witnesses in public.

We don't need any further delays. It is time to act now and assert our Legislative authority.

A much more serious impeachment probe would be managed much more efficiently, starting with a tight focus on the established misdeeds involving Governor Cuomo's already well-documented stonewalling and deception of New York legislators and New Yorkers in its coverup of the full deadly impact of his administration's 25 March 2020 COVID nursing home directive.