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Democrat politicians throughout Connecticut and the nation may want to know – what are the political ramifications of the Cuomo resignation?
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, his reputation in tatters, gave up the political ghost on Tuesday at, my wife commented, High Noon, though she was careful to add that no one would ever confuse him with Gary Cooper.
New York's Democrat political cabal had days earlier, following a
“scathing” report from New York Attorney General Leticia James, abandoned Cuomo en mass, leaving him to his own
insufficient resources.
The outgoing Governor will be replaced, in the interim
between elections, with New York Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, whose
relationship with the Cuomo administration and his enablers in a cloying Eastern
Seaboard media is fraternal but not yet incestuous or fratricidal.
Hochul’s temporary occupancy of the office may temporarily
snuff the ambitions of New York political jackals who even now are secretly
plotting behind closed doors a serpentine route to the governor’s mansion.
Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, the cockles of whose heart is warmed by
what Friedrich Nietzsche used to call resentment, comes to mind as a possible
Brutus.
Increasingly in politics, men are replaced by women when
their inflamed egos and satanic pride cause them to flub up beyond recovery;
this despite the insistence of third wave feminists that there are no important
differences between the fair and the unfair sex.
In his unaccustomed forced isolation, one imagines Cuomo
crying out in despair, “Et tu de Blasio?’
Political cognoscenti in New York understand that the
relationship between its Governor and the New York Mayor has been, at best,
tempestuous. A few cynics
within journalism’s Big Tent tend to attribute the sour feelings to political
competition for the affections of New Yorkers, indispensable for re-election
purposes. And other contrarians suppose that the lock big city Democrat mayors
have on the affections of voters has made the ruling order risk averse.
The Ticker, Baruch College’s independent, student-run
newspaper, currently in its 88th year of production in New York City, recently
sized up de Blasio and found him wanting in a recent story, provocatively
titled “Mayor
de Blasio’s term ends this year and he won’t be missed,”
The student newspaper pointed out that “Crime is a big stain
on de Blasio’s reign as mayor. Since Giuliani’s time as mayor, crime had been
decreasing in New York City consistently. That changed under de Blasio.
“In 2020, New York City shootings matched their totals
from 2018 and 2019 combined, a report by The New York Post shows.
Gunfire struck 1,868 people across 1,531 different shooting incidents in that
year.
“This trend doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon. As of
March 26, Gothamist [a website covering New York City news, arts, events, and food] reported that 246
people had been shot across 220 different incidents this year, up 40% from that
point in 2020 and 66% from that point in 2019.
“Yet, despite the statistics showing that crime has clearly
been getting much worse in the past two years, de Blasio continues to downplay
the trend, saying that New Yorkers are not ‘living in fear.’”
The paper sums up the de Blasio legacy: “High crime, high
taxes, hypocrisy and fleeing residents are issues de Blasio will be remembered
for in his term for mayor. While he certainly wasn’t the worst mayor ever, it
will be a breath of fresh air for New Yorkers to elect and install a new mayor
by this year’s end.”
A woman perhaps?
Big city Democrat mayors in Connecticut might want to copy de Blasio’s soothing message: Though serious
crime has increased fourfold in Hartford, Connecticut’s Capital city,
Harfordites are not “living in fear”, particularly if they do not live in urban
shooting zones.
Living in the fear, largely politically produced, of a new
Coronavirus strain, Democrats in the state may be successful in forcing retrogression
to a time when the “scientific” understanding of Coronavirus was yet primitive.
Since our pre-scientific Coronavirus Dark Age, a recovering Connecticut had opened many businesses previously closed through, some argue, unconstitutional
gubernatorial edicts.
Scientists have always known that SARS virus strains have
been more contagious but less fatal. Little of the data we read in newspapers
has included the number of Connecticut citizens who had, during the course of a
year and a half, developed natural immunity, which may be more efficacious than
vaccine produced immunity. And some of the contact data that appears in daily
newspaper accounts is based on a less than desirable data pool.
But violent urban crime has been with us in Connecticut for decades, and recent reliable data shows that a fearful spike in violent crime, lately spilling over into nervous suburbs, is not easily dismissed by smooth politicians suggesting that urban and suburban victims of crime are either misreading the data or are easily spooked by news accounts of murders or suburban car thefts.
Such victims of crime have been advised by police reformers in Connecticut who
have successfully removed partial immunity from police departments across the
state to lock their cars, if they live in the suburbs, or to take life as it
comes, if they live in crime infested urban areas, where 19 year old thugs
mistakenly murder innocent 3 year old children, and elderly
women making meals in their kitchens are fatally struck by stray bullets.
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