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| DATE | 2020-10-01 |
| FROM | mayer ilovitz
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] cutting cuomo off at the knees
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As I said to others months ago, the only way to restrain Coumo, and to a
degree deblasio
(anyone else notice thunderbird spellcheck tends to spellcheck that name
to delusional? )
is to vote in a Republican veto-proof dominant Assembly & Senate.
Ruben Safir wrote:
> It’s past time to pull the plug on Andrew Cuomo’s dictatorial pandemic
> powers
> By David Marcus
> 5-6 minutes
>
> September 30, 2020 | 8:07pm
>
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> Gov. Andrew Cuomo's emergency powers are grating on some New Yorkers.
>
> Gov. Andrew Cuomo's emergency powers are grating on some New Yorkers.
> Hans Pennink
>
> I don’t mean to alarm the good people of New York, but it’s important
> that they understand we are living under a dictatorship — with no end in
> sight.
>
> Who’s the autocrat in question? Why, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of course.
> Perhaps because his father was governor before him, Cuomo may have grown
> up thinking of himself as crown prince and now fancies himself a king
> with unquestioned authority. But the ultimate blame falls squarely on a
> state Legislature that has now abdicated its duties for the better part
> of six months.
>
> Back in March, our lawmakers in Albany used a public-health statute to
> hand the governor nearly unchecked power. The idea was that the state
> executive must have broader-than-usual authority to tackle a crisis. But
> a supposedly interminable emergency is an invitation to endless abuse of
> emergency authority.
>
> As Rensselaer County Executive and former Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin
> told me, “You’ve got to be able to address the emergency. This is no
> longer an emergency. We’re well past where we were in March, April and May.”
>
> Indeed. And yet King Cuomo is still issuing diktats with absolutely no
> check on his power. Half of them don’t even make sense. This week, he
> tweeted that wearing a mask is not optional. What does that even mean?
> That he signed an executive order? Or is his itchy Twitter finger just
> making up laws on social media? And who is enforcing this? Are the
> police going to start arresting people for literally showing their
> faces? Does anyone have any idea?
>
> Meanwhile, this week we learned that pay increases for 80,000 civil
> servants have once again been deferred by Cuomo. Perhaps that’s
> necessary amid the lockdown-induced budget crunch. But you know who is
> scheduled to get a big, fat raise? Unless deferred, Cuomo’s own will
> jump by $71,000. It’s good to be the king.
>
> Yes, there is a time limit on these emergency powers. They last one year
> and so would expire of natural causes in six months or so. But can we
> really take six more months of this? Shouldn’t we, by right, have the
> government we voted for right now?
>
> Individual legislators might for whatever reason feel compelled to hand
> over their powers semi-permanently. But here’s the thing: That power
> doesn’t ultimately belong to the Legislature in our system of government
> — it belongs to us, the people of New York, a people now crushed under
> the despotism of a petty tyrant who gives himself raises as tens of
> thousands of small businesses close forever under his irrational
> lockdown orders.
>
> As New Yorkers take to the polls to elect state assemblymen and senators
> this fall, one question should be front and center: Will you do your
> job, Mr. Would-Be Lawmaker? Will you, you know, legislate?
>
> Understand: El Comandante from Queens is in this for the long haul. He
> now says he won’t trust a vaccine approved by the federal government,
> this after months of lectures about trusting the science. Instead, he
> wants his own experts to judge the drug. And guess who gets to remain
> the unchecked emperor while that process plays out?
>
> Never in the history of this state has a governor wielded this much
> power for so long. If Cuomo wanted to force you to tie his shoes right
> now under penalty of fine or arrest, he could do it — perfectly legally,
> too. OK, maybe I’m slightly exaggerating. But consider the fact that
> Cuomo has the authority to ban church attendance — which is a
> constitutional right, one of the bases for the founding of this nation
> and among the first rights secured by the Bill of Rights.
>
> This is how the Empire State is being governed at the moment, not as a
> democracy, but one-man rule by the same governor whose malfeasance
> resulted in the horrific mass senicide of the nursing homes.
>
> One of the fundamental dangers of a crisis is that we lose sight of very
> basic things, like not being ruled indefinitely by a power-hungry
> autocrat. New Yorkers need to wake up, as do our lawmakers — and I use
> that term generously, as lately, the only “law” they’ve enacted is that
> Cuomo can do whatever the hell he wants.
>
> At this point the crisis is no longer the pandemic. The crisis is the
> governor and his enablers. It is time for New York to get its legitimate
> government back.
>
> David Marcus is The Federalist’s New York correspondent. Twitter:
> -at-BlueBoxDave
>
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