Tuesday, June 01, 2021

1 June 2021: Editorial - NY Speaker Heastie Milking Cuomo Impeachment for Power

Even the impeachment of Gov. Cuomo is just grist for corruption

The editors of the New York Post observe a power shift in Albany, with NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie using the impeachment process as leverage to support his interests.

The charges against Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t be real until Speaker Carl Heastie says they are.

Assemblyman Charles Lavine, who’s nominally in charge of the supposed Cuomo impeachment inquiry, admitted last week that there’s no end anywhere in sight. Nor will there be, until Speaker Carl Heastie decides he wants it....

So it stands to reason the Assembly’s impeachment probe won’t get very far until Cuomo tells Heastie it’s time to wrap it up. And, sadly, all Cuomo has to do in return is let the speaker have his way with public policy — the public interest be damned.

Pretty sordid, isn’t it, that even the effort to hold a governor to account for horrific abuse of his office is just grist for another corrupt bargain?

The New York Assembly's impeachment probe is perhaps best described as a 'sham'. Here is related coverage from the timeline:

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