I have said this repeatedly before
and will do so again now. We need to figure out just what our standard is going forward in overturning elections when political figures engage in conduct, that while legal, is terrible. The day before yesterday it was Franken, yesterday it was Northam, today it is Cuomo, tomorrow it will be ?. I tend to be pretty maximalist on elections ought to matter, even if we don't like the outcomes of them or we later find that the people elected have terrible habits.
Yet again we find ourselves in the position where we are deciding that maybe we should undo the election of Andrew Cuomo as governor. Honestly, this isn't about Cuomo or Franken or anyone else. It is about, in this case, the people of NY. Cuomo won his primary and general elections by vast numbers of votes. His Lt Gov. didn't. She pretty much is where she is because of him. The people of NY voted for him, not his Lt. Governor.
For me, short of criminality or such mal feasance of duty as to it should be criminal, people should get to keep their jobs. At the very least we should have a real investigation here. He isn't some CEO who we get to choose who will replace him. He is a governor who gets replaced by a specific person with no public input at all. An accidental governor. Maybe she would be terrific, but her record suggest she wouldn't be. But again, on the merits, that actually doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is whom did the people of NY decide should be governor and when should that choice be taken from them? The answer to the first part of that question is Cuomo, the answer to the 2nd part, in my mind at least, is when they have elected a criminal, or elected a person who is unable to do the job and an investigation has been conducted which shows that. I don't think Cuomo should run again. I think if Cuomo engaged in criminal conduct he needs to go. If he has merely behaved in a way that would get a CEO fired, I am not so sure.
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