Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced the launching of an unbiased probe into the Cuomo administration's dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kevin P. Coughlin / State of Governor Kathy Hochul
After months of stalling, Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced final week that she’s outsourcing her long-promised overview of the state’s COVID-19 insurance policies initiated by her predecessor. In what nobody ought to suppose is a coincidence, which means the outcomes received’t come till lengthy after the November election.
Individuals who misplaced household because the seemingly results of the Cuomo diktat requiring nursing houses to re-admit COVID-positive sufferers had demanded a nonpartisan fee to analyze and maintain the Cuomo-Hochul administration accountable.
As an alternative, Hochul has issued a Request for Proposals for an unbiased agency to receives a commission to do an “After Motion Evaluation.” Assuming some gives meet muster, solely then will the state subject a one-year contract (overseen by Homeland Safety Commissioner Jackie Bray) to evaluate “what was performed proper and what might be improved.”
At greatest, that is kicking a bunch of cans down the street: Cuomo’s grotesque care-home mandate; the following coverup of the true care-home loss of life tolls (which Cuomo & Co. claimed was for concern of political persecution by Trump administration), the VIP testing for Cuomo household and pals and the then-gov’s $5.1 million guide deal.
To not point out Hochul’s personal actions in persevering with varied mandates lengthy after they made in the slightest degree of sense, in addition to her insistence on nonetheless retaining varied emergencies powers that, amongst different issues, forestall the state Comptroller’s Workplace from doing its regular overview of many contracts.
Even after her obscene Buffalo Payments stadium deal enormously benefitted her husband’s agency, we shied away from calling Hochul “corrupt.” However her continued behavior of manipulating state authorities to her personal profit, and in opposition to the general public curiosity, counts because the worst kind of corruption, even when she by no means fairly will get caught breaking a single regulation.
Choosing a drawn-out contracting course of for the “After Motion Evaluation” is totally opposite to Hochul’s pledges for better transparency, together with vows to that impact on this very subject. She simply doesn’t need any added threat of shedding in November.
This governor’s egocentric abuses of energy add as much as one other compelling purpose to vote for Lee Zeldin.
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