March 9, 2021
Why the Left Hates Cuomo
By Michael Filozof
Conservatives are happily gloating over the fact that Andrew Cuomo is at, or rapidly approaching, his nadir.
Unfortunately, they cannot take credit for the three-term governor's rapid fall from grace. Though New York once had a competitive Republican Party, the state in recent years has been dominated by the Left. Democrats presently control the state legislature by veto-proof margins in both houses, and no Republican has won statewide office since George Pataki won his final term as governor in 2002.
It is not the rump faction of the Republican Party from mostly red Upstate that has kneecapped Cuomo -- as much as they would have liked to. Rather, it is Cuomo's über-leftist fellow Democrats from the New York City area. On Sunday, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called for Cuomo's resignation (less than a month before the April 1 deadline for the all-important state budget) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie questioned Cuomo's ability to lead. State Attorney General Letitia James is investigating Cuomo's COVID-19 edict quarantining elderly patients in nursing homes, where fatalities spiked. Last week, her investigation prompted the Democrat-controlled legislature to repeal dictatorial powers they had granted to the governor in 2020 as the virus began to spread.
Like Caesar in the Roman Senate, Cuomo is cornered by his erstwhile allies, daggers drawn. But why aren't his fellow Democrats circling the wagons in his defense, as they did for Bill Clinton in 1996? It's not as if Cuomo is being accused of having a young intern fellate him in his office. To the contrary, he's being accused of far, far less. Cuomo's latest accuser alleged that he gave her a hug -- twenty years ago!
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