Cuomo may actually go!

 The Cuomo family has always a rough group.  I remember when Mario Cuomo ran against Ed Koch for mayor with the unofficial slogan "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo".  Koch, of course, was not married, so the Cuomo team called him a homosexual.  It was surely not the finest moment in NY politics.  Eventually, Mario was elected governor and re-elected twice.  Finally, he was ousted by George Pataki.  Probably, Mario's biggest moments came when he couldn't decide whether or not to run for president.  Thankfully, he never ran.

Then came his son Andrew Cuomo.  Andrew got his big break when President Clinton appointed him to be head of HUD.  Cuomo did a poor job, but the media praised him anyway.  After all, he was a Cuomo married to a Kennedy.   

Andrew got elected governor ten years ago.  Since then, he has managed to avoid scandal after scandal that has taken down nearly every powerful Democrat in Albany.  Andrew has done a terrible job a NY governor, however.  His worst moment came a year ago when he ordered nursing homes to accept patients diagnosed with COVID.  That move lead to thousands of deaths of nursing home residents who fell victim to the contagion that Cuomo forced into their residences.  All during the time that this wave of death swept over the state, the media treated him like a hero because he wasn't Trump.  The single most incompetent governor in the nation in preventing COVID deaths and handling the crisis was lionized when he should have been ousted from office.  Think of it.  Cuomo is the one whose administration "lost" 5000 ventilators supplied by the federal government and then complained of a shortage.  Cuomo demanded that a hospital ship from the navy come to NY harbor, and then didn't put patients in it.  Cuomo demanded that the feds turn the Javits Center in NYC into a 3000 bed hospital and then never put more than 140 patients into it.  The ship and the Javits Center alone could easily have housed all the nursing home patients sick with COVID thereby protecting something like 10,000 other nursing home residents who died from the disease.  There's more, but no matter how much Cuomo screwed up, the media treated him like a hero.

Now, seven (or is it eight) women have come forward to charge Cuomo with sexual harassment.  Cuomo denies the allegations, but in the great American tradition, he is now guilty before any hearing or trial has even been held.  All the state's Democrats are calling for their leader to resign, but he is refusing.  It's amazing to watch Cuomo go down not for undeniable misdeeds regarding COVID, but rather for unproven charges by a group of women.  Look, the charges may be true, we just don't know.  Still, it's great to watch Cuomo destroyed because he so clearly deserves to go.