The NY Post reported this week that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19.
She said that “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors.
The admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.”
DeRosa added: “That played a very large role into this.”
Sara says
Wanna mafia guy needs to go to Gitmo. He is a murderer of dad’s, mom’s, grandma’s and grandpa’s.
Jail the rotten politician
MJM says
It’s certainly obvious to me that Cuomo was the one who used this situation as a political football. His punt from his own end zone hasn’t exactly worked out, eh ? Gitmo ? I kinda doubt it. He’s a big shot democrat. Or thinks he is. He has friends. Don’t forget, he did it to please the medical industry, keep the hospitals open and making big money, so they weren’t just getting Medicare and Medicaid money. Did y’all follow the money ? He’ll end up on Nantucket with Kerry and Obama, and with the rest of the people who claim to be guardians of a climate Apocalypse. That press release makes them even more money, and we already know they don’t care how many pipeline workers and their families starve, now don’t we.
Paul Plante says
Andy Cuomo, son of Mario, brother to Chris of the Cuomo News Network (CNN), is one of Joe Biden’s ELECTORS, which means that old Joe and his medicine show, including Joe’s department of Joe’s version of justice, are all beholden to Young Andy for their offices, such is the way politics work in this country, so that now Young Andy is expecting the BIG HUSH from the Biden department of Joe Biden’s justice.
“LOOK THE OTHER WAY, JOE, NO CORRUPTION HERE!”
Bottom line, Andy Cuomo isn’t going to any prison with the Democrats in full control of our national government.
Paul Plante says
And speaking of some scary statistics, according to a story in the New York Post entitled “55 percent of voters flunk Cuomo’s disclosure of COVID nursing home deaths” by Carl Campanile on February 16, 2021, while a majority of New York voters ripped Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reporting of nursing home residents killed by the coronavirus, where fifty five percent of registered voters rated Cuomo negatively — fair or poor — on the disclosure of nursing home fatality data, with 84 percent of Republicans and two-thirds of independents/unaffiliated voters disapproving the governor’s handling of the nursing home death toll, his fellow Democrats gave him a positive grade, with 54 percent supporting him on the reporting issue.
According to the article, the survey was taken after state Attorney General Letitia James issued her damning report last month concluding that the Cuomo administration low-balled COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 50 percent, and after a state judge issued a Feb. 3 ruling slamming Cuomo for illegally blocking the release of information in response to a legal request submitted by the Empire Center for Public Policy, a government watchdog group.
And here is where the numbers get scary: A majority of voters oppose a bid by legislators to strip Cuomo of his broad emergency executive powers.
The Legislature passed a law giving the governor emergency authority last year to help New York respond to the pandemic, which expires April 30.
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Said in plain language, the legislature, which had NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to do so, declared Andy a literal DICTATOR, and it essentially then suspended itself like Hitler suspended the German Reichstag after his Enabling Act, where he stripped the German people of their constitutional rights, and now we are being told that a majority of New York voters, like the GOOD GERMANS back when, are content with a DICTATOR over them, so long as he is a kind master, which takes us to a POLITICO article entitled “Here’s every law and regulation Cuomo had suspended during coronavirus crisis” by Bill Mahoney on 03/19/2020, to wit:
ALBANY — When Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis on March 7, he gained extraordinary powers over the everyday lives of the state’s 19.5 million residents.
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When Andy declared a state of emergency in response to CONRONA, he became a dictator who like Hitler, suspended the New York state Constitution, which in turn impacted directly on who could vote for president and how, which is to say he safely rigged New York’s election so that nobody but Joe Biden could win, which takes us back to POLITICO as follows:
Thanks in part to a statutory change which the Legislature approved at the beginning of March, Cuomo’s declaration means he can change or suspend laws unilaterally, so long as doing so assists the state in its disaster response, which is a mountain of steaming dog **** heaped high, because it is Andy alone who determines whether what he is or is not doing assists the state in its disaster response which was PISS-POOR, if even that, which takes us back to POLITICO as follows:
ELECTIONS
— Petitioning requirements for candidates seeking office this year have been slashed to 30 percent of what they normally would be.
So rather than the 1,250 signatures usually required of congressional candidates, for example, the new minimum will be 375.
— For the rest of March, voters will be allowed to cast absentee ballots by mail for any reason.
The state constitution restricts absentee voting to instances when an individual is ill or out of the county in which they live, but “the potential for contraction of the COVID-19 virus” has been labeled a type of illness.
— Individuals who do not work for boards of elections are now allowed to help residents of nursing homes fill out absentee ballots.
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Talk about a recipe for rigging an election, there it is right before us, which takes us to ARTICLE II of the New York State Constitution, entitled “Suffrage,” where we have as follows:
[Absentee voting]
2. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if residents of the city of New York, from the city, and qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be unable to appear personally at the polling place because of illness or physical disability, may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes.
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By executive order, DICTATOR Andy changed that to allow absentee ballots to be cast by mail for any reason, which opens the door to FRAUD, but hey, it is New York with a long, long history of rigging elections, so what is a little more FRAUD going to matter, which takes us to this:
[Persons excluded from the right of suffrage]
3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that purpose shall receive his or her vote, shall swear or affirm before such officers that he or she has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election, and has not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election. (Formerly 2. Renumbered by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938; amended by vote of the people November 6, 2001.)
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WHY?
Precisely because of the history of ELECTION FRAUD in New York State, which takes us back to the New York Post poll, as follows:
Meanwhile 46 percent of voters say they are prepared to re-elect Cuomo if he runs for re-election to a fourth term in 2022 while 45 percent say they would “prefer someone else.”
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As Sallust was said to have said, “At the end, only a few preferred liberty; as for the rest, all they wished for was a kind master!”
And to think I went to VEET NAM and shed blood to fight against a dictatorship being imposed on those people by the COMMIES only to find that same ******* BULL**** going on right here at what used to be home!
What a fool me!