13 November 2021: Editorial - Cuomo's Pandemic Malfeasance

More Andrew Cuomo pandemic malfeasance

In this editorial, the New York Post's editors fault Andrew M. Cuomo's pandemic "leadership" after reviewing the transcripts of Dr. Elizabeth Dufort's testimony in the state attorney general's probe of Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment and misconduct:

In short, Cuomo’s demand to seem in command trumped actually beating the virus. State experts couldn’t even do webinars with local health officials, Dufort said. And the gov’s “enforcer,” Linda Lacewell, would routinely scream at state health officials for failing to toe the worship-Andrew line.

Just as with Cuomo’s deadly, lobbyist-driven orders for care homes to admit COVID-contagious patients, we’ll never know exactly how many lives were lost to this madness. But having lawyers and political hacks stop medical experts from sharing info and advice surely deepened New York’s losses.

Renssalaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin (R) was one of the few to stand up to Team Cuomo, refusing to admit COVID-19 patients to the county-run nursing home and calling out Cuomo’s refusal to consult with county health departments.

We’ve long said Cuomo needed to go for bigger reasons than the (themselves outrageous and notably numerous) harassment allegations. It’s all too telling that even an investigation of that sleaze uncovered deadly malfeasance.

Regardless of the outcomes of the sexual harassment probe that led him to choose to resign as a disgraceful failure rather than be impeached, Cuomo can expect to face calls for justice and prosecution for his COVID nursing home deaths scandals for years to come.