{"id":15520,"date":"2014-07-23T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15520"},"modified":"2022-08-29T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:00:01","slug":"gov-andrew-cuomos-answer-to-ethical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15520","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s answer to ethical issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. I hope you\u2019re enjoying the Global Warming We\u2019re all going to DIE!<\/i><\/span> warm weather. Frankly, I prefer it a bit cooler, especially after seeing my electric bill. (Thank you Obama) Now, for Governor Andrew Cuomo of the state of New York, there seems to be heat of another sort. That would be \u201cethical\u201d heat.<\/p>\n

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Now this goes back to shortly after Comrade Cuomo took office. New York had been dealing with one scandal after another including the resignation of Elliot Spitzer. Cuomo\u2019s idea was to set up a commission to go after all these people who were corrupt. That apparently worked fine until Andrew Cuomo ended up in their sights. Here are the details, (Surprisingly), from the New York Times:<\/p>\n

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With Albany rocked by a seemingly endless barrage of scandals and arrests, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo set up a high-powered commission last summer to root out corruption in state politics. It was barely two months old when its investigators, hunting for violations of campaign-finance laws, issued a subpoena to a media-buying firm that had placed millions of dollars\u2019 worth of advertisements for the New York State Democratic Party. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so far so good.<\/p>\n

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The investigators did not realize that the firm, Buying Time, also counted Mr. Cuomo among its clients, having bought the airtime for his campaign when he ran for governor in 2010. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whoopsie!! The commission should have looked before it dove in.<\/p>\n

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Word that the subpoena had been served quickly reached Mr. Cuomo\u2019s most senior aide, Lawrence S. Schwartz. He called one of the commission\u2019s three co-chairs, William J. Fitzpatrick, the district attorney in Syracuse. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is wrong,\u201d Mr. Schwartz said, according to Mr. Fitzpatrick, whose account was corroborated by three other people told about the call at the time. He said the firm worked for the governor, and issued a simple directive: <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cPull it back.\u201d<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, \u201cHow Dare you? Who do you think you are, law enforcers rooting out corruption?\u201d Well, being honest commission members, I\u2019m sure they told Schwartz to go pound sand.<\/p>\n

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The subpoena was swiftly withdrawn. The panel\u2019s chief investigator explained why in an email to the two other co-chairs later that afternoon. \u201cThey apparently produced ads for the governor,\u201d she wrote. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, these commission members are the New York version of Cheese Eating surrender monkeys?<\/p>\n

\"surrender-monkey\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently so. I\u2019m not surprised either. The Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats have been rampaging through New York for decades, and the PLFD elites truly think that the laws don\u2019t apply to them, any more then the people of New York actually have any rights not granted to them by Commissar Cuomo. Don\u2019t you DARE even THINK about investigating the Lords and Masters of New York.<\/p>\n

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The pulled-back subpoena was the most flagrant example of how the commission, established with great ceremony by Mr. Cuomo in July 2013, was hobbled almost from the outset by demands from the governor\u2019s office. <\/i>While the governor now maintains he had every right to monitor and direct the work of a commission he had created, many commissioners and investigators saw the demands as politically motivated interference that hamstrung an undertaking that the governor had publicly vowed would be independent.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gee, ya think? Cuomo is a classic Liberal. He uses commissions like this only as political cover and to go after his enemies. When one of these commissions starts to get to close to home, WHAMMO!<\/p>\n

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A three-month examination by The New York Times found that the governor\u2019s office deeply compromised the panel\u2019s work, objecting whenever the commission focused on groups with ties to Mr. Cuomo or on issues that might reflect poorly on him. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And we can\u2019t have that of course. So how did Cuomo handle this situation? In the usual manner of course.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, Mr. Cuomo abruptly disbanded the commission halfway through what he had indicated would be an 18-month life. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s that as far as Cuomo and his minions are concerned. Well, that would be true if there wasn\u2019t another prosecutor out there looking to get a nice Governor\u2019s pelt for his office wall.<\/p>\n

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Now, as the Democratic governor seeks a second term in November, federal prosecutors are investigating the roles of Mr. Cuomo and his aides in the panel\u2019s shutdown and are pursuing its unfinished business. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hey Andy! About that 2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination you were looking for? Yeah, kiss that goodbye. With a little bit of luck, you might be trading in your $1500 Saks 5th<\/sup> Avenue suits for a new suit of stripes, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019re the pinstripes you were looking for. Now, just what did Cuomo have in mind for this commission?<\/p>\n

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Over two days of meetings with the commission\u2019s co-chairs last September, Mr. Cuomo personally suggested a way to squeeze members of the Legislature into enacting ethics-reform measures: by issuing subpoenas to the law firms where many legislators earn sizable incomes for part-time work. <\/i>In another pressure-packed session, Mr. Schwartz specifically told the commission\u2019s co-chairs that the governor himself was off limits. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yep, Cuomo saw himself as the Emperor of New York and therefor, above any laws. Hmm, who else thinks like that? *cough* Obama *cough* Needless to say, the investigators aren\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n

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Many of them, including some of New York\u2019s most senior prosecutors, had believed they would have free rein to pursue investigations wherever they led and would be independent of the executive branch. What became of the commission left many of them disillusioned. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that bothered me the most is we were created with all this fanfare and the governor was going to clean up Albany,\u201d said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State and a special adviser to the commission. \u201cAnd it became purely a vehicle for the governor to get legislation. Another notch for his re-election campaign. That was it.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Thrown<\/a><\/p>\n

You actually thought Cuomo was going to be an honest, hardworking governor doing his best to represent the voters and citizens of New York? My, you ARE a special kind of stupid, aren\u2019t you? I think the one piece of good news out of all this is that Cuomo\u2019s presidential aspirations are pretty much toasted. He has managed to piss off all the gun owners in New York and now that the New York Slimes has gone after him, I think we can stick the fork in, he\u2019s all done.<\/p>\n

Thatisall<\/p>\n

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