Democrats and Republicans on the House COVID panel agree on one thing: Ex-gov Andrew Cuomo committed “medical malpractice” during the pandemic.
The bipartisan slam of Cuomo’s pandemic misleadership is a timely reminder of why his rumored Big Apple mayoral run next year should be a no-go.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic report flagged Cuomo’s attempts to influence the testimony another witness, his former top aide Jim Malatras, and also concluded that Cuomo “likely gave false statements” about his role in pandemic decision-making.
Likely? Cuomo denied messing with report on COVID deaths that Malatras said the then-gov and other staffers were all over.
Plus: Before sex scandals forced him out, Cuomo and his minions repeatedly lied to, misled and stonewalled COVID-related data requests from the Legislature and the public.
His greatest sin was the March 2020 edict directing care homes to admit COVID-positive patients — then later covering up the total fatalities in those homes.
The report paints a devastating picture of how Cuomo’s bad decisions, orders and policies undermined public health — all while he (well, his staff) wrote a book lauding his pandemic leadership.
It’s a timely reminder of other Cuomo “leadership” that still plagues New York.
He signed the “no-bail” law, Raise the Age and other “criminal justice reforms,” driving up crime; he forced the congestion-pricing plan through the Legislature; he cut hospital and state psychiatric beds.
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One of his 2017 orders barred law enforcement statewide from working with ICE and CPB; his climate and energy policies are killing electric bills, with far worse to come.
Yet name recognition would have him polling as the top alternative to Mayor Adams next year.
No: It’d be a rerun of the 2013 mayoral race, when disgraced Anthony Weiner consumed so much oxygen on his way to another defeat that Bill de Blasio wound up in Gracie Mansion.
Andrew Cuomo shouldn’t be eyeing another office, but coming clean on his many mistakes.
A grim reminder why NY really doesn’t need an Andrew Cuomo run for mayor
