http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/nyregion/cuomo-defends-his-handling-of-ethics-panel.html?_r=0
Governor Andrew Cuomo created an anti corruption panel to which he abruptly shut down after five days. He was harshly criticized and accused of hobbling ethics investigation to which he stated that the work of the anti corruption panel was a phenomenal success. On Monday when Governor Cuomo addressed his defense as to his shut down of the panel, his office had wrote a thirteen response defending their action and Cuomo seemed to agree with most of the response but he also contradicted other points that his office had wrote. Because he had shut down the panel so abruptly, federal prosecutors are now investigating Mr. Cuomo and his aides' role in the shutdown. According to the New York Times, last summer, Cuomo had stated that the panel could investigate anything, even his office, but now on Monday, Cuomo said," A commission appointed by and staffed by the executive cannot investigate the executive.
This could seriously hurt Cuomo's campaign and his actions to this situation makes me think that if he is so contradictory and unsure in this ethnic commission, how will he be as governor?
ReplyDeleteAll of this sounds very weird and suspicious. Why would Cuomo shut down his own commission so quickly? How did he expect anyone to believe that such a short-lived commission could have been successful?
ReplyDeleteIts no surprise Cuomo got heat for this. the panel was only alive for five days and he calls it a phenomenal success? Plus, his contradictory statements about the panel don't make him look good right now. He will have to distract people from this and highlight the good things he has done over the course of his term.
ReplyDeleteIt was imprudent of Cuomo to shut down the panel so suddenly and without hesitation. It also seems suspicious that he keeps making contradictory comments and calls the panel a “phenomenal success” when it clearly wasn’t.
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