Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
It's Saturday, March 13, 2021. The sun is shining. Before we go to bed tonight, we'll set the clocks an hour ahead. Spring ahead, Fall back as the saying goes. Tomorrow, the sun will set an hour later than it did today. We're gaining almost 3 minutes of sunlight every day and although this number will go down as we approach the longest sunlight day of the year (June 21, when summer officially arrives) ... we will still gain some daylight until then.
However, there is one person in New York State who may not look forward to great New York State sunsets, and that person is Governor Andrew Cuomo. I use the term Governor loosely now, because while he still is the de-facto Governor of NYS, he's not one that can impose harsh policy on it anymore. He's been defanged; the power he once wielded has abated and now, instead of using his energy to craft and dictate policy, he's using it to merely survive in office.
This is good news.
Andrew Cuomo is on the way out. As I write this, it's not if, it's when. Worst case scenario is, he rides out his term and in November of next year (2022) he will not be re-elected. Somebody else will be sworn in as Governor in January 2023. It's a year and 9 months away, and as I figure it, that's the absolute best he can remain in office.
But I'm hopeful, as more women come forward that his term will be severely abridged. I'm facing east and holding my prayer beads that he will be gone sooner than that. Much sooner.
Let me make one point clear: I do not support vigilante justice, not jumping to conclusions. As I write this, there are now seven women claiming to be sexually harassed by the Luv Guv. One of them claims she was groped under her blouse. Andrew Cuomo deserves a chance to defend himself, both in a legal court and also the court of public opinion. These are allegations, not etched in steel facts. Yet, anyway.
But as the number increases almost daily, one does have to begin to wonder. As the body count climbed in the Bill Cosby case, his good reputation was erased. When he was convicted and jailed, then we knew: He did it.
Nobody has alleged Andy Cuomo dropped a roofie in their drink and took advantage of them - let's get this out there. And asking for dates in a stupid manner isn't illegal either. But groping is, and if the allegation has any evidence tied to it, it should be heard. Also, changing a job position or moving the employee around after being turned down for a date doesn't bode well for the Gov either.
All this is interesting, but without dates, times and some sort of corroborating evidence ... most of it will stay where it is: As allegations.
I'm wondering why people are on the mini-bus when there is a much larger issue to deal with when it comes to Andrew Cuomo, and that's the nursing home death scandal.
We now know the nursing home death number counts were changed ... and lowered. A recount of the numbers tell us it is at least double. His executive order in March of 2020 (rescinded in May 2020) forced Covid into the weakest population sector in the state, and that is nursing homes. When this colossal mistake came to light, he had the unmitigated gall to blame Donald Trump for it.
Why would he fudge the numbers? For personal and monetary gain, say I. If you read his book in which he congratulates himself on every other page, he asserts NY came in fourth out of fifty states in nursing home deaths. With the new numbers, we're number one. Andrew Cuomo's executive order killed tens of thousands of our most vulnerable population. (Look for this book on the Dollar Store shelves in the near future, keeping company with books from Hillary Clinton and the like.)
So, as the heat is turned up, and as it becomes clear that both the NY Senate and Assembly (both in the hands of Democrat control) are abandoning him, he's taking a real gamble: Does he think he can really ride this out for almost 2 years more? Is he that stupid?
Richard Nixon experienced a similar situation: As Watergate unfolded and his lies were exposed, he also lost his Republican protectors in Congress and the Senate. It became clear: If he didn't resign, he would be impeached. He took the easier way out and resigned.
I suggest Andrew Cuomo be put in the same position: Resign or be impeached.
As a resident of New York State, I can only hope.
New York State's motto is Excelsior, which means Ever Upward.
Goodbye, Andrew Cuomo. Thank God your political career is (almost) over. Your plans to move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 4 years are pretty much extra-crispy now.
As the days lengthen and the sun sets later every day, isn't it kind of ironic that your days in Albany are growing shorter?
