{"id":53757,"date":"2021-02-23T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53757"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:27:48","slug":"ny-democrat-assemblyman-wants-cuomo-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53757","title":{"rendered":"NY Democrat Assemblyman Wants Cuomo Impeached!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuomo to be impeached over nursing home scandal<\/h1>\n

By Carl Campanile and Aaron Feis
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be impeached over the nursing home scandal that saw state officials intentionally obscure the extent of the coronavirus\u2019 death toll on the facilities, frequent critic and state Assemblyman Ron Kim wrote in an opinion piece published Monday.<\/p>\n

The Democrat-on-Democrat broadside came less than a week after Kim, of Queens, alleged that Cuomo called him while at home,\u00a0threatening to\u00a0<\/a>\u201cdestroy\u201d his political career unless he helped mitigate damage from the ballooning scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time to be brave, to hold him accountable, to investigate his cover-up of nursing home information,\u201d wrote Kim \u2014 whose uncle\u2019s death in a New York City nursing home is suspected to be tied to the pandemic \u2014\u00a0in the piece\u00a0<\/a>for Newsweek.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time to undo the bad policies that led to unnecessary deaths. And it is time to start the impeachment process,\u201d Kim wrote.<\/p>\n

The latest layer of the long-simmering scandal came to light earlier this month when The Post exclusively reported\u00a0that top Cuomo aide\u00a0<\/a>Melissa De Rosa, in a conference call with Democratic state lawmakers, acknowledged the administration covered up the extent of the nursing home death toll because they feared a probe by the administration of now-former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Kim, who participated in the the Feb. 10 meeting, said Cuomo asked him to draft a statement \u201cto say that Melissa DeRosa said there was a federal investigation and they had to deal with that first.\u201d He refused.<\/p>\n

Kim is also one of nine Assembly members who\u00a0accused Cuomo of\u00a0<\/a>engaging in \u201cobstruction of justice\u201d over withholding the true tally of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19. The governor has denied the claim.<\/p>\n

Asked what pushed him to call for impeachment, the assemblyman said Cuomo\u2019s actions and behavior are beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is no longer about Cuomo. It\u2019s about protecting the sanctity and integrity of the legislative bodies against an executive who is trying every day to rope us into his lies and cover-ups involving 15,000 families who lost loved ones in nursing homes,\u201d Kim told The Post.<\/p>\n

In the column, Kim said an infamous March 25 state Heath Department directive forcing nursing homes to take recovering COVID-19 positive patients discharged from hospitals led to \u201cthe spread of the disease among New York\u2019s most vulnerable population.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, to cover his tracks, the governor may have obstructed justice by suppressing life and death data from the Department of Justice; his office underestimated the number of nursing home deaths by up to fifty percent,\u201d he said, referring to the findings of a withering investigative report issued by state Attorney General Letitia James.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker also referred to Cuomo\u2019s bullying behavior and deflecting responsibility to others \u201cwhen the public gets too close to learning the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI call this Cuomo\u2019s Predatory Inclusion Syndrome. And I won\u2019t be party to it,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI witnessed a crime, and on top of that, 15,000 nursing home residents died under his watch. Restoring faith in government for those families is my top and only priority, not the governor\u2019s PR image.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s office had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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