{"id":1472,"date":"2021-08-05T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2021-08-05T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:40:08","slug":"what-should-happen-to-gov-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/05\/what-should-happen-to-gov-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"What should happen to Gov. Cuomo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March, I said Gov. Cuomo should not resign because of accusations<\/a>. I still believe that. <\/p>\n

Things have changed since then. The case against him is more than just an accusation. It’s less than a legal verdict, but it’s a pretty serious case. Unless Cuomo can effectively counter the findings against him, he should resign or be removed from office. <\/p>\n

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a legal matter. That standard applies to whether or not he goes to jail. It doesn’t mean the people of New York have to keep him in office. <\/p>\n

ISTM there is a sliding scale of certainty here. <\/p>\n

1. Accusations.
\n2. A competent investigation.
\n3. A finding in a court. <\/p>\n

While there’s a movement to “believe all women” and assume that accusation = guilt, we can’t fall for that. Accusations have to be investigated. <\/p>\n

On the other end of the scale, when a man is convicted in a court of law, that should settle things. <\/p>\n

We’re in the middle. We’ve had an investigation. Unless there’s credible reason to doubt the sincerity of the investigation, that should be enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in March, I said Gov. Cuomo should not resign because of accusations. I still believe that. Things have changed since then. The case against him is more than just an accusation. It’s less than a legal verdict, but it’s a pretty serious case. Unless Cuomo can effectively counter the findings against him, he should … Continue reading “What should happen to Gov. Cuomo?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}