There’s Only One Reason Democrats Are Turning On Cuomo, And It Isn’t A Noble One What's most striking is that de Blasio's call to 'revoke the governor's emergency powers' comes after nearly an entire year of Cuomo publicly wielding his power to destroy his own state.
By Christopher Bedford
March 2, 2021
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for the state legislature to revoke Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers, joining nine Democrats as well as the state’s Republicans in doing so. “The State Legislature,†his Sunday night statement reads, “must immediately revoke the governor’s emergency powers that overrule local control.†Great idea, mayor. But why now?
One reason de Blasio lists is Cuomo’s “withholding of information on the deaths of over 15,000 people†in the nursing-home scandal. That fact, you might notice, has been in the media spotlight for weeks now. Even before then, the mayor didn’t seem to think the on-its-face-stupid-and-obviously-deadly decision was a good reason for removing extralegislative powers.
While last year Fox News’s Janice Dean, The New York Post, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, President Donald Trump, and others exposed and publicly detailed Cuomo’s abuses, the mayor kept silent. He also passed on the chance to sign on with nine members of his own party when they joined their Republican colleagues in calling for an end to the emergency powers more than two weeks ago. What else, then, could have provoked Sunday’s statement?
A second reason the mayor listed is “multiple instances of intimidation.†Those, you might also notice, have been obvious since Cuomo first entered politics.
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