“I am horrified by the heartlessness of this administration. At a time when our state needed to come together, they thought only of themselves. When they have unilateral control over the situation and every opportunity to fix it, they covered it up instead. That’s not leadership. As I have been saying for many months, the state Legislature now has run out of excuses for this man and must immediately take away his extraordinary powers. We must convene an independent investigation from the top down and those responsible, including Howard Zucker and the governor himself, should face every charge head on. We cannot allow the senseless deaths of thousands of New Yorkers to be brushed aside simply because ‘they were old’ or sick or vulnerable. In fact, that’s even more reason we should defend them. That’s what government should have been doing all along.”
