Posted on 02/14/2021 5:55:51 AM PST by Libloather
Former Gov. Pataki thinks New Yorkers should take a hard look at recalling Gov. Cuomo over the “reprehensible” cover-up of nursing home deaths.
On Thursday, Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, admitted to lawmakers that her boss concealed data about the coronavirus death toll among nursing-home residents to avoid having to share it with the federal government.
Even before The Post exposed that scandal this week, roughly 40% of New Yorkers said they would favor a recall effort to oust the three-term incumbent if a recall mechanism existed in the Empire State.
“I think it would be appropriate to take a hard look at that,” Pataki, 75, said in a Zoom call from his home in upstate Garrison. “I only think it should be used in extraordinary cases but when you really have lost confidence in the leadership in your state, I think the opportunity should exist for the majority of the people to say we want something different.”
Unlike California, New York has no legal procedure for recalling elected officials midstream. A serious effort to create such a process was instigated by Pataki, who pushed a state Constitutional amendment in 2002 to allow for popular referendums. The idea was promptly nuked by crooked then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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How about prosecution and conviction, that’s another way to go.
We’ve lost almost have our House seats over the last 6 decades.
We can’t vote to recall, but we can and do vote with our feet.
Note to other 49: Be prepared for Albany to cook our census figs. If they try to say we didn’t lose at least 2 House seats this time around: SUE.
Never happen. Cuomo is popular in the state, somehow.
How people could support that mongrel faced dirtbag is beyond me but half the country is of the same ilk.
BTW, every damn pol in the stare knew that our nursing homes were charnel houses.
Plenty knew that Albany was engaging in threats and/or bribery to keep it quiet.
None of our pols, local, municiple, county, state, federal did a damn thing to stop it.
New York sucks. always has, always will. That’s just the way it is. (I make exception of “Upstaters”.)
He may be popular Downstate.
Not Upstate.
And when I say none, I mean NONE.
That includes Republicans.
Consider recall?
Put him in jail.
calling it a “cover-up” is giving the good governor an “out” from under a sticky wicket
That depends on the part of the state. He is despised in many parts of the state by both republicans and democrats. It’s just not enough to override the dense urban areas and the complicate NY-RNC. It wasn’t long ago when the highest ranking republican in government endorsed Cuomo over the republican candidate.
Every nursing home administrator every family everyone knew what was going on
You have a state run by a guy who gets in by the massive inner city plus Large scale democrat cheating you know you have no power
Cuomo is a dictator
Vote with their feet is right - some are fleeing to California, of all places, I have new neighbors that fled New York. Frying pan into the fire, I told them.
At least we have a recall effort going on against the odious Newsom - heard yesterday there are enough petitions to get it on the ballot. The pols are demanding signature verifications on the petitions - while NO voter ID is required to vote in this state.
Hope the bums are thrown out.
‘Mobutu’ Cuomo.
No he’s not (anymore)
He would lose in a landslide today
Hear hear. We heard of the threats to nursing care facilities in a neighboring county, but no one could believe it. So sadly true.
New York should consider tar and feathers.
What a sham! Everyone has known about this but they waited until after the fake election to protect the democrats. NOW it is going mainstream, in a show of “unity” and able to express their shock and rage.
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