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New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim has called for Cuomo to be impeached amid the recent nursing home death count scandal, according to The BizPac Review.
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“It is time to be brave, to hold him accountable, to investigate his cover-up of nursing home information,” said Kim.
Ron Kim accused Governor Cuomo of hiding thousands of nursing home COVID-19 deaths and bullying those that wouldn’t cover up his “crime.”
“He wanted me to deny what I heard on the call. ‘Are you an honorable man?’” He yelled. “Who do you think you are?” This, too, was an attempt to rope me into his scheme,” Kim said.
“Those of us who have worked with Cuomo are familiar with his tendencies.”
“There is a long pattern of abusive tactics that the governor deploys when the public gets too close to learning the truth: cast a net far and wide, compromise as many unwitting accomplices, threaten retribution, then berate you for having the temerity to stand up.”
“I call this Cuomo’s Predatory Inclusion Syndrome. And I won’t be party to it,” Kim said.
“The truth behind the obfuscation and lies is this: The governor snuck a toxic corporate immunity clause in the 2020 budget on behalf of his top campaign donor, the Greater New York Hospital Association. You don’t need a PhD to understand that handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards to for-profit nursing homes in the middle of a pandemic will lead to more deaths,” said Kim
“It is time to undo the bad policies that led to unnecessary deaths. And it is time to start the impeachment process.”
From The BizPac Review:
Kim also slammed Cuomo for granting nursing homes “corporate immunity” and implied this was part of a greater political pay-to-play scheme.
Ron Kim is the first Democrat to publicly support impeaching Cuomo.
