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Statement from Speaker Carl Heastie Clarifying Misinformation on Legislative Agreement to Terminate the Governor's Emergency Powers

Fact #1
The legislation immediately repeals the Governor’s expanded emergency powers and he cannot issue any new directives going forward.

Fact #2
The Governor must justify to the Legislature the extension or modification of any existing directives every 30 days.

Fact #3
The Legislature can, by a simple majority vote, repeal any executive order at any time.

Fact #4
The bill allows the Legislature to undo the state of emergency.

Fact #5
We did not negotiate this bill with the Governor.

https://nyassembly.gov/Press/?sec=story&story=95722

Cuomo has issued nearly 100 orders related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to debate in the Senate on Friday morning.

Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, on Friday complained that the bill would not prevent Cuomo from acting unilaterally and continuing directives he has issued under the emergency powers authorization.

Lanza, who said he would vote against the bill for that reason, blasted “one-man rule” and the effects from “when you have one man have absolute power over your lives” since last March.

“If I would have told anyone two years ago that we were going to stand by and let a governor to tell student athletes that they couldn’t play” or tell students they could not put on a play “people would say, you’re crazy, no way, no how is that happening,” Lanza said.

The move to strip Cuomo’s powers underscore what has been a growing rift between the governor and lawmakers from his own party.

Cuomo for years has been able to enforce his political will with less effective pushback from the Senate and Assembly than his predecessors faced.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/new-yor ... owers.html

Dukasaur wrote:You're comparing apples to oranges. Making a pass at a co-worker is not in the same league as rape. These are violations of departmental policy at best.

saxitoxin wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:You're comparing apples to oranges. Making a pass at a co-worker is not in the same league as rape. These are violations of departmental policy at best.

There's also the fact that he forged COVID death stats.

Good News for Mr.New York....He is not the worst lock down death king....For it will come to light...soon ,That Michigan Gov...The QUEEN of Lockdown DEATHS...Has killed more people/Elderly....Than Mr.New York... Detroit.Fox 2 Investigative reporter Charlie L. ,was on Tucker Carlson,Mar. 5th...telling what he has been telling on fox 2 Detroit for Months...He has tried to get real death numbers from the Governor's people...Since May...Still no true release of death numbers,most from nursing homes like New York....So,there is a big story coming soon out of Michigan,when the Covid death numbers hit the fan... ...

jusplay4fun wrote:One real question is: will Cuomo be forced to resign over his despicable and deplorable behavior?

So far, 3 young women have come forward to make such allegations. How many MORE will it take?

I lost count how many women came forward for Bill Cosby. And the same for Harvey Weistein.

degaston wrote:

jusplay4fun wrote:One real question is: will Cuomo be forced to resign over his despicable and deplorable behavior?

So far, 3 young women have come forward to make such allegations. How many MORE will it take?

I lost count how many women came forward for Bill Cosby. And the same for Harvey Weistein.

For Trump it was 26. Not saying that Cuomo shouldn't leave, but anyone who didn't want Trump removed for that should have nothing to say about Cuomo.

saxitoxin wrote:Trump didn't manipulate COVID death statistics by up to 50-percent. The Administration was willing to live and die by an honest accounting of mortality rates and received relentless criticism for it.

saxitoxin wrote:

degaston wrote:

jusplay4fun wrote:One real question is: will Cuomo be forced to resign over his despicable and deplorable behavior?

So far, 3 young women have come forward to make such allegations. How many MORE will it take?

I lost count how many women came forward for Bill Cosby. And the same for Harvey Weistein.

For Trump it was 26. Not saying that Cuomo shouldn't leave, but anyone who didn't want Trump removed for that should have nothing to say about Cuomo.

The (Trump) Administration was willing to live and die by an honest accounting

mookiemcgee wrote:

saxitoxin wrote:

degaston wrote:

jusplay4fun wrote:One real question is: will Cuomo be forced to resign over his despicable and deplorable behavior?

So far, 3 young women have come forward to make such allegations. How many MORE will it take?

I lost count how many women came forward for Bill Cosby. And the same for Harvey Weistein.

For Trump it was 26. Not saying that Cuomo shouldn't leave, but anyone who didn't want Trump removed for that should have nothing to say about Cuomo.

The (Trump) Administration was willing to live and die by an honest accounting

huh...ha....hahaha.....Bahahahaha. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Trump didn't manipulate COVID death statistics

NOT LONG AFTER Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party’s executive director, Alana Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations, before getting to her main point.

She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much.

On March 6, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The establishment had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account.

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nev ... eintercept

Say goodbye to the most effective Democratic Party in the country

The Republicans must be gleeful, feeling all kinds of schadenfreude after their decade of suffering through the inept reign of McDonald and having to navigate the party nonsense: Berniecrats, some of whom still can’t get over the Vermont senator’s 2016 caucus loss here, who seem more skilled at inane Twitter memes than anything else and who think winning caucuses and state chair elections is the same as winning real elections, take control of the Democratic Party.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/articl ... he-country

saxitoxin wrote:With enemies like this, who needs friends? 2022 RED WAVE!

mookiemcgee wrote:The Chinese communist party is being elected in 2022?

saxitoxin wrote:

mookiemcgee wrote:The Chinese communist party is being elected in 2022?

That reminds me of the CCCP's The East is Red, definitely one of the best party songs in the world!

mookiemcgee wrote:

saxitoxin wrote:

mookiemcgee wrote:The Chinese communist party is being elected in 2022?

That reminds me of the CCCP's The East is Red, definitely one of the best party songs in the world!

If you are a "red party" republican maybe

The battle for the Senate is heating up as Republicans look to win back the majority in next year's midterm elections.

Several GOP senators have already said they won't seek reelection in 2022, with Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) becoming the latest with his announcement Monday.

The retirements are likely to pose some challenges for Republicans as Democrats eye pick-up opportunities in battleground states.

A weary and haggard-looking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was photographed Friday in a blanket carrying a bottle and talking on the phone outside of the governor's mansion, as pressure escalated on him to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct directed at multiple women.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo- ... nket-drink

An increasing number of allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct are being leveled against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. So far, six women have come forward.

A sixth woman is now accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate sexual conduct. Last night, the Times Union in Albany published her account, the latest and most explosive allegation yet. So far, five women Cuomo worked with and one he had just met at a wedding have come forward.

MARTIN: So now Cuomo's facing all these calls for him to resign, right? Notably, the head of the New York State Senate, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, has joined this chorus. What's the governor saying?

HOGAN: Well, up until at least yesterday, Cuomo had really brushed off those calls. He says leaving his post would be anti-democratic since voters elected him to serve a four-year term. And he says allegations are just that - allegations. But at some point, Rachel, the combined weight of all these accounts may make his political future untenable.

MARTIN: Gwynne Hogan from member station WNYC, we appreciate you bringing your reporting to us.