Wednesday, March 24, 2021

24 March 2021: Unwinding Team Cuomo's COVID Nursing Home Policies and the Coming Scramble to Replace Cuomo

Undoing the policies that Governor Cuomo and his administration imposed during the coronavirus pandemic is the unifying them for the following report and opinion column. The first deals with the repeal of the legal immunity Governor Cuomo gifted to New York hospitals and nursing home operators from COVID deaths. The second calls for the New York state government to release all the public COVID data it has compiled during the pandemic, which would unwind Team Cuomo's often illegal withholding of that information from the public and other government agencies.

The next article anticipates a political free-for-all if and when Governor Cuomo exits the Governor's mansion:

The event that might tip the balance in determining whether Governor Cuomo can survive in office is whether state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli gives the go-ahead to state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate Governor Cuomo's nursing home deaths scandals. While it's drawing media attention, the NY Assembly's impeachment probe appears designed to fail.