12 MARCH 4, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Checkmate for Governor Cuomo
Whether he wants to admit it,
Governor Andrew Cuomo
is now in the same place
as Richard Nixon was in the final
days of his presidential tenure in
August 1974, struggling to keep his
head afloat amid a sea of scandal that
seems to grow higher by the day.
For Cuomo, it began with the nursing
home death data controversy
that the governor admitted to messing
up from the start. But the sea
really bubbled over on the heels of
accusations made by three women in
the past week -- two former Cuomo
aides, Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte
Bennett; and Anna Ruch, a guest at a
wedding reception Cuomo attended
-- that the governor made unwanted
advances toward them.
Cuomo hasn’t addressed the media
since Feb. 22. Except for communications
via press release, we’re all
getting the silent treatment from a
governor who had been a regular
fixture on television for the better
part of the year. Now he’s off camera
stewing over scandal.
Where does Cuomo go from here,
other than home?
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo QNS fi le photos
The third report about Ruch’s
account propelled prominent
Democrats on Monday night to call
for Cuomo’s resignation -- and those
calls figure to grow even louder
from within the party. Republicans
are ready to dance on Cuomo’s political
grave for many of the same
sins (negligence and inappropriate
behavior) their defeated former
president committed, which they
ignored the last four years.
The state budget deadline is in less
than a month. New York is getting off
the mat from the worst pandemic in
a century that cost lives and tens
billions of dollars. To state the obvious,
this is a horrific time for New
Yorkers to have an absentee, scandalridden
chief executive running the
show.
It’s checkmate for Cuomo. There
are no more moves left for him to
play.
Lawmakers will not work with
him the same way as before; he
has no leverage left. His odds of reelection
to an unprecedented fourth
term in 2022 are growing longer by
the day.
Any gambit he may take for personal
survival in office would only
delay the important work to rebuild
New York — and risk the Governor’s
Mansion falling into the hands of a
Trump-loving Republican who’ll cut
New York City off from the support
it requires from Albany.
For over 10 years, Cuomo has
claimed to “work for the people.”
Now he must get out of the way in
order for that work to continue.
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