A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ANDREW CUOMO ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE – AT 10:58 P.M. ET:    Look, this is really getting serious.  I've seen falls from grace before, but Cuomo's is a jump out of the grace plane without a parachute.  Not many months ago this New York windbag won an Emmy for sounding good during a pandemic.  Now he's being accused of the kind of cover-up that would have had Richard Nixon at the end of a hanging rope.   From Fox: 

New York, NY – EXCLUSIVE: New York Assemblyman Michael Montesano said he plans to ask the state legislature to consider impeaching Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a bombshell admission by his top aide that their office allegedly covered up data on COVID-19 nursing home deaths to shake off a Justice Department probe on the matter.

"We've been calling for subpoenas and a hearing for quite a while," Montesano, a Republican member of the state’s Oversight and Investigations Committee, told Fox News. "This news of the last several days is extremely troubling to me and I'm going to be asking today for his resignation and I'm also going to be asking the legislature to look into, to explore filing articles of impeachment against the governor if he doesn't resign."

Calls for a criminal probe against Cuomo and his staff mounted after Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, told top New York Democrats on Thursday that Cuomo's administration feared the data about COVID-19 deaths could "be used against us" by the Justice Department in the midst of its federal probe initiated against four states regarding nursing home deaths, including New York, and thus the administration withheld the actual death count.

"This is now criminal," Montesano, a Republican who represents District-15, said. "The governor wants to talk about how our attacks on him are political. They're not political, we've had an inkling all the while that they were covering stuff up, and now she admitted that she covered stuff up because she knew the Department of Justice has an active investigation going on of the nursing home problems which a lot of us in the legislature, especially in the minority, requested that they do.

"She's obstructing an investigation. This is what makes it even more troubling," he added.

"If I had to make an educated guess, I believe she realizes DOJ is doing an investigation, things may be getting close, and she wants to divest herself of whatever wrongdoing she may have done if she's covered something up and if she's trying to get out in front of it," Montesano said of De Rosa's shocking admission, which she tried to walk back in a statement released Friday.

COMMENT:  The bottom line here is that Cuomo will still be protected by many journalists.  Also, to get some relief for New Yorkers, the United States Department of Justice will probably have to intervene. even though it is now run by the Democratic Party. 

Cuomo was the golden boy during much of the early period of the Covid 19 assault.  "America's governor," some in the bought press called him.  Now he's becoming the goat.   Nobody's governor.

February 12, 2021