[1]Alessandra Biaggi - Democrat for State Senate
Friends -
This week, I joined 13 other New York State Senators to call for the
emergency powers that were granted to Andrew Cuomo under the COVID-19
pandemic to be revoked.
I’ve been issuing this call for months, because Governor Cuomo has used
them as permission to govern unilaterally — he issued 65 executive orders
and suspended over 250 laws in the six months after his emergency powers
went into effect.
And we recently learned that the Governor’s administration lied about the
number of nursing home deaths in New York to avoid investigation by the
Department of Justice.
Remember, these deaths happened after Andrew Cuomo mandated nursing homes
re-admit COVID-positive patients from hospitals — and then gave nursing
home executives legal liability to protect them from being sued for
providing insufficient care.
The truth is that Cuomo’s mismanagement of our state contributed to
thousands of preventable deaths.
While we can’t go back and prevent this tragic loss of life, we can make
sure that Cuomo’s emergency powers are revoked — and our state legislature
is granted equal power in decision-making — ASAP. Add your name if you
agree:
[ [link removed] ]Sign my petition calling for Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers to be
revoked so that our state legislature is once again allowed to operate as
a check on his power.
We need a full investigation into Governor Cuomo’s choice to release
nursing home patients from the hospital and re-admit them to nursing
homes. We need to know how this contributed to the uncontrolled spread of
the pandemic in our state.
But first, we need to make sure that he can’t make any more unilateral
decisions that will cause preventable deaths. If you agree:
[ [link removed] ]Sign my petition calling for Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers to be
revoked so that our state legislature is once again allowed to operate as
a check on his power.
Thank you for making your voice heard.
All my best,
Alessandra Biaggi
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