11 August 2021: A Compelling Argument for Continuing Cuomo Impeachment

Impeachment conviction now could relieve taxpayers of future lawsuits against Cuomo

Here's a strong argument in favor of continuing with New York Governor Cuomo's impeachment we haven't seen presented elsewhere:

One day after Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he will step down from office, even many of the lawmakers who had called for his resignation are saying it’s time to end the impeachmnet proceedings against him.

“If the Governor’s resigning, I’m not certain the impeachment investigation’s really necessary,” said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. He tends to agree with the Governor’s contention that continuing with the impeachment proceedings now would be a time consuming, costly distraction for lawmakers.

But that’s not the way Assemblyman Michael Montesano sees it. He’s the ranking Republican on the Assembly Judiciary Committee which has spent the past five months investigating the sexual assault claims, nursing home deaths and a book deal and was weeks away from presenting to the full Assembly. “We want people eventually to see and hear what we had amassed so they understand that you know money’s been spent but it’s been spent for a good reason and here’s the result.”

Montesano said proceeding with an impeachment conviction could not only prevent the governor from running again, but also take away his indemnification so that taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay for whatever lawsuits result from the sexual assaults.

Without an impeachment conviction by New York's state senate, Andrew M. Cuomo would continue to benefit from state taxpayers being forced to pay his legal bills for the dozens of civil lawsuits and criminal charges that are in the works today.