{"id":2553,"date":"2021-02-28T21:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2021-02-28T21:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:41:43","slug":"cuomo-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/cuomo-must-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo must go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The newest allegations of sexual harassment against Governor Cuomo reaffirm what I said last week, that we need a truly independent investigation by the Attorney General or an independent prosecutor and not one run by a Cuomo apologist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These serious and disturbing allegations coupled with the criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Brooklyn into the Cuomo Administration\u2019s cover-up of the deaths of 15,000 New Yorkers in state-regulated nursing homes, makes it exceedingly difficult for Andrew Cuomo to continue to be one of the most powerful governors, in terms of executive and emergency powers, in the nation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The legislature should remove his powers tomorrow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He should do the right thing and resign.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If he fails to do so, the Assembly has a responsibility to be a check and balance in this representative democracy and pass articles of impeachment so my Senate colleagues and I are able to remove him from office and we can turn the page on this sad chapter in our state\u2019s history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest allegations of sexual harassment against Governor Cuomo reaffirm what I said last week, that we need a truly independent investigation by the Attorney General or an independent prosecutor and not one run by a Cuomo apologist. These serious and disturbing allegations coupled with the criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}