4 August 2021: Opinion - Why Cuomo Should Have Been Impeached Months Ago

Andrew Cuomo's COVID policy killed thousands — that's what should have ended his career

Robert Schmad details why Andrew M. Cuomo should have been booted from office months ago in this opinion piece. Here's an excerpt:

Based on the reactions, it would appear as if many view sexual harassment as more repugnant than negligent homicide. Thousands of people lost parents and grandparents due to Cuomo’s regime. Everything he has been accused of by his current and former employees, while terrible, can't top that.

Cuomo's administration mandated nursing homes readmit residents who had been hospitalized with COVID-19. It barred these facilities from testing returning patients, or new ones, for the coronavirus. Undoubtedly, this introduced the infection into some of the most vulnerable populations, contributing heavily to the disgraceful death toll accrued within New York’s nursing homes. Cuomo, like everyone else, knew the elderly were particularly susceptible to the virus but still approved policies that unnecessarily endangered them.

After those deaths inevitably occurred, Cuomo and his lackeys actively covered them up, going as far as to rewrite state documents to obfuscate the true number of deaths in nursing homes. All this verifiably happened and is largely undisputed.

The difference is that it took hundreds of state government officials, nearly all members of Cuomo's Democratic party, to implement Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive. All of whom would be exposed to legal liability in contributing to the deaths of so many nursing home residents. By pursuing sexual harassment charges, the majority Democratic party officials in power in New York can limit the damage to party members.