New York’s Corrupt and Venal Leaders Must Go
The sooner both these unworthies are banished to the merciful obscurity of the memory, the better for the Empire State and the nation’s suffering metropolis.
By Conrad Black
March 18, 2021
Writing as someone who was slightly acquainted with the late Mario Cuomo and considered him a substantial political force—not out of place among the many distinguished men who have held the historic office of governor of New York, from General George Clinton and John Jay to the Roosevelts, Al Smith, and Nelson Rockefeller—I have always found both of the present public Cuomos unutterably obnoxious. The only positive thing about the present governor is that he is an improvement on Eliot Spitzer, an apparently megalomaniacal incarnation of the concept of malicious and reckless prosecution when he was state attorney general.
With that said, the cascade of demands that Andrew Cuomo resign over the allegations of improprieties against him launched by present or former female co-workers is piffle.
There is something particularly nauseating about the cowardly antics of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he attacks Cuomo and demands his resignation. De Blasio is a catastrophic failure in his post, often occupied by accomplished individuals, from DeWitt Clinton to Fiorello LaGuardia, Ed Koch, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, and, even as a debonair souvenir of the roaring ’20s in Manhattan, James J. Walker.
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