Betsy McCaughey: Cuomo scandals’ silver lining – here’s the one bit of good news for New Yorkers

It’s unlikely that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will call it quits, despite rising calls for him to resign. But it’s almost a certainty that he can’t run for a fourth term.  

If something as horrible as 15,000 needless nursing home deaths can possibly have a silver lining, it’s that the Cuomo era is abruptly ending, and New Yorkers might possibly be shaken into a realistic assessment of their own state government. 

Cuomo started out as a promising governor in 2011, but by 2014, as the Democratic party moved leftward and gained increasing control of the state legislature, Cuomo began caving into the loony left’s pro-crime, anti-growth agenda.

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He banned fracking and blocked new natural gas pipelines, killing a key source of employment upstate. He signed on to so-called “bail reform,” which means releasing alleged perps just hours after their arrest with no cash bail requirements, even for gun crimes and violent crimes.  

The Empire State is tops in only one thing now – population loss. More people flee New York each year than any other state. More than 1.4 million have left since 2010. They escape for better jobs and a lower cost of living in other parts of the nation. New York ranks rock bottom – number 50 out of all the states – in economic growth prospects, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a think tank. 

You’d never know the state’s prospects are so dismal, listening to the media. Cuomo was hailed as a national star, an image burnished by CNN, Hollywood and his own book proclaiming his leadership skills. That image is now in tatters. 

Evidence is mounting that he lied and covered up the number of elderly who died in nursing homes during the pandemic. On top of that, five women are accusing him of sexual harassment, and more will likely follow. 

New York’s next governor…