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3/16 The Ides of March Have Come & Gone; News Round-up & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on March 16, 2021 by BennyMarch 16, 2021

Why Andrew Cuomo Must Resign

n April 2020, a month after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, Cuomo issued a health directive requiring nursing homes and homes for people with developmental disabilities to take Covid-19 patients. This ended up being a death sentence for many people. At the same time, he pushed an industry-sponsored bill through the legislature shielding nursing home CEOs—many of them donors to his campaign—from legal liability for dangerous decisions.

In June, the State Health Department reported 9,250 nursing home deaths to the governor’s office. Cuomo’s staff panicked—not because so many people were dying, but because the total was the highest in the country and would make him look bad just as he was riding high in the polls and on the verge of closing a major book deal touting his success handling Covid.
Instead of releasing the Health Department numbers, his office rewrote the report to announce that only 6,200 nursing home patients had died. Lawmakers who needed that data to make policy questioned the figures, but the governor insisted on their accuracy.

Only five months later, after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report showing deaths had been undercounted by as much as 50 percent, did Cuomo correct the numbers.

His first policy choice was disastrous, but it was the cover-up—half a year of continuously lying to the public—that requires his resignation.

What’s more, his office initially claimed he was hiding the figures out of fear the White House would weaponize the numbers against him. Reporting from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed that was a lie, too. Meanwhile, over 15,000 New Yorkers in nursing homes have died of Covid.

Cuomo has a long history of bullying and terrorizing people. But he now faces several credible allegations of sexual assault and harassment of employees.

Many of the interactions are undisputed and backed up by independent reporting. For instance, it is undisputed, even by Cuomo, that he asked a 25-year-old entry-level employee if she was open to sex with older men. That constitutes sexual harassment under New York state law. Reports that Cuomo’s office leaked personnel files about another accuser, Lindsey Boylan, have not been disputed by the governor; nor have reports that Cuomo’s staff (paid by New York taxpayers) made unsolicited calls to former and current state employees and encouraged them to discredit Boylan.

This kind of vicious retaliation is part of a pattern. When Cuomo told Assemblyman Ron Kim that he would destroy him for talking to the press about the nursing home cover-up, that was not an empty threat. When the New York State Public Employees Federation endorsed me in 2014, Cuomo retaliated by reclassifying 2,500 employees of that union as management. The message is clear: If you dare cross me, you will be destroyed.

In a recent press conference, Cuomo implicitly threatened to leak confidential files from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, a body that is supposed to provide independent oversight—but acts instead as an extension of the governor. Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Larry Schwartz, the official in charge of New York’s vaccine program, has been leaning on Democratic officials to declare their support for the governor, further politicizing the state’s response to the pandemic. Local officials are scared that failing to support Cuomo will impact their access to vaccines—especially since Schwartz, who has no public health background, is a known enforcer for Cuomo who was involved in shutting down the Moreland Commission anti-corruption investigation when it got too close to the governor. Even so Cuomo’s signature upstate jobs plan, Buffalo Billion, ended with his right-hand man in prison for bribery.

With so many Cuomo revelations coming out every day, it can be hard to keep them straight—and he’d like it to stay that way—but there is a single, devastating theme throughout all of them: his abuse of the extraordinary power given him by the people of New York.

The investigation by Attorney General James and her two stellar appointed investigators must indeed go forward. The criminal investigations must go forward. But there is no investigative result that leaves us with a governor we can trust not to abuse power and lie.

For the sake of the state, Andrew Cuomo must resign and let Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul replace him.

More news, tweets, videos in the comments. The ides of March came and they went.

Posted in News, Open Thread | Tagged Andrew Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout

Cuomo Won, But He’s Living in Nixon’s World—plus Open Thread 3/14/21

The Progressive Wing Posted on March 14, 2021 by NYCVGMarch 14, 2021

Cuomo Won, But He’s Living in Cynthia Nixon’s World

TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS

New York politics was fundamentally changed on Thursday night, even if the governor will likely remain the same.

Updated Sep. 14, 2018 12:33PM ET Published Sep. 14, 2018 12:11PM ET 

“On the face of it, the most exciting New York State primary in a long while ended in disappointment for voters seeking change. Incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hand-picked slate of candidates — incumbent Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and current New York City Public Advocate Tish James for Attorney General — won, after all.

But while Cuomo’s nearly 30-point victory over Cynthia Nixon is being heralded as a landslide, it is also undeniable that New York will be a demonstrably more progressive state precisely because she ran. Nixon may have secured only slightly more than 30 percent of the vote. But she still proved that primaries matter, even if you get trounced during them.”

This article published in 2018 told the story of what was coming very clearly.

Now, on to 2021.  How does Your day look?

Posted in News, Open Thread | Tagged Andrew Cuomo, GOV-NY

11/18 News Roundup & Open Thread

The Progressive Wing Posted on November 18, 2020 by BennyNovember 18, 2020

Greetings birdies! A bit of news you won’t see in the NYT today.

Airport Workers Rally for “Healthy Terminals”

Give Thanks, give health care” – that’s the message airport workers will deliver to Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a rally today at noon at LaGuardia Airport.

In July, New York lawmakers passed the Healthy Terminals Act, a bill supporters say would provide some 25,000 terminal cleaners, baggage handlers, security officers and other service workers at New York airports access to quality, affordable health insurance. But the governor still hasn’t signed the bill.

And according to Rob Hill, vice president of SEIU local 32BJ, despite being urged to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many people will travel for the holidays.

“We know that travel is going to pick up at the same time the pandemic is picking up again,” Hill said. “And these workers are still being asked to work in close quarters inside without health care. And that’s got to get fixed.”

Opponents of the bill say it actually could eliminate jobs by raising costs for airlines already facing huge economic losses due to the pandemic.

But Hill pointed out the airlines got $50 billion in federal relief through the CARES Act and could get more in a second relief package. And without the Healthy Terminals Act, he said, many frontline airport workers won’t have access to health care.

“To the extent employers offer some health care, it’s usually something that has a copay or it’s out of reach for what these workers can afford, and so they generally don’t have it,” he said.

The bill would require airline subcontractors to pay a benefits supplement of $4.54-an-hour so workers can acquire quality health insurance.

Hill noted workers at other airports get similar benefits. And he contends that, if it is left up to employers, the problem of inadequate health care will not be addressed.

“The bottom line is, the only way they’re going to have decent health care is if it gets mandated,” he said. “And there are other cases – LAX airport and San Francisco airport – where they mandate this same kind of thing. So, it’s something that’s been done before that should be done here in New York City.”

Cheap-ass Cuomo. Just in time for the busiest air travel.

More news, tweets, videos, etc in the comments. See you there!

Posted in Activism, News, Open Thread | Tagged Andrew Cuomo, COVID, Labor, NY, SEIU

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