New York state deputy Ron Kim – who said Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened to ruin his career by speaking out against the mismanagement of the nursing home crisis during the coronavirus pandemic – now calls on Cuomo to face impeachment.
“Cuomo abused his powers to hide information from the Justice Department’s life and death that prevented lawmakers from legislating – such as the complete revocation of corporate immunity for asylums. This is an impeachable offense,” Kim wrote in Twitter on Monday.
“The only way to protect the integrity of the state government’s co-equal branch, also known as ‘Casa do Povo’, is to initiate impeachment,” he wrote in another tweet.
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The New York State Assembly can vote to impeach a governor by a simple majority, sending the case to the State Senate for trial. Unlike the US Constitution, the New York State Constitution does not include specific protection bars to define objectionable conduct, according to PIX11.
Kim, a Democrat who is also chairman of the state’s Standing Committee on Aging, has accused Cuomo of “abusing his power” in trying to pressure lawmakers to support his aide’s admissions that the government intentionally withheld data on deaths in nursing homes Researchers in the department.
In this image taken from the video, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference on Friday, February 19, 2021, in Albany, NY (New York Governor’s Office via AP)
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Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s secretary, made the surprising revelation during Zoom’s call with state lawmakers earlier this month.
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Kim was one of more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers in New York who were pushing for Cuomo to be stripped of the executive powers he was given during the pandemic.
Cuomo made a public appearance at a mass vaccination site at Medgar Evers College in New York City on Monday morning. He was accompanied by a handful of members of the New York State Assembly, but he did not speak about deaths in nursing homes or answer questions. Cuomo blamed the Trump administration for the lack of coronavirus vaccines and accused the previous administration of creating distrust around the vaccine in the black community.
Despite Cuomo’s efforts to attribute the drama-filled weeks to party politics, as questions surrounding how to deal with the pandemic continue, the government has been forced to admit recently that deaths in nursing homes have exceeded 15,000 – almost 10,000 more than was originally reported by the state in late January
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has long had a tense relationship with Cuomo, called for a thorough investigation into the deaths in nursing homes from coronavirus on Monday.
“I didn’t speak to [Cuomo]. No, I don’t accept your explanation, “de Blasio said during a press conference.” There needs to be a thorough investigation … we need to get the whole truth and ensure that nothing like this happens again. “
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Vandana Rambaran of Fox News contributed to this report.