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New York City May­or Bill de Bla­sio is call­ing for the state leg­is­la­ture to revoke Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emer­gency pow­ers, join­ing nine Democ­rats as well as the state’s Repub­li­cans in doing so. “The State Leg­is­la­ture,” his Sun­day night state­ment reads, “must imme­di­ate­ly revoke the governor’s emer­gency pow­ers that over­rule local con­trol.” Great idea, may­or. But why now?
One rea­son de Bla­sio lists is Cuomo’s “with­hold­ing of infor­ma­tion on the deaths of over 15,000 peo­ple” in the nurs­ing-home scan­dal. That fact, you might notice, has been in the media spot­light for weeks now. Even before then, the mayor …