23 November 2021: Opinion - NY Assembly Impeachment Report Throws Book at Cuomo

Churchill: Report throws the book at Cuomo

Albany Times-Union columnist Chris Churchill retells much of what's in the New York Assembly's impeachment probe report into Andrew M. Cuomo's misconduct in office, but he adds something new about what the report means:

... tarring the Assembly report as politically motivated is more difficult. These were Democrats investigating a Democrat who has already resigned from office, a man who has an $18 million war chest he can use to smear all who cross him.

Members of the Assembly have every reason to stay on Cuomo’s good side, then. And that this long-delayed report happened to arrive during the distracted Thanksgiving week suggests an intent to minimize, not maximize, damage to the former governor.

The damage will nevertheless be significant and lasting, since any sentient person who reads the report will understand that Cuomo used the tragedy of the pandemic, a true American crisis, to make himself rich with "American Crisis."

Ouch.