AP News reported, "Cuomo also issued an executive order requiring top executive branch officials to undergo ethics training that must begin by Jan. 31 and to be re-certified every two years to work in what has been a scandal-plagued state government."
Is this an excuse used to protect Cuomo and his lackeys from criminal prosecutions?
Or is Cuomo hiring moral dolts who don't know ethical conduct without taking a refresher course every two years?
And will members of the NY legislature and our NY Judiciary, who may be also moral dolts, be without ethics because they haven't taken such an ethics course?
Perhaps, is this a Cuomo job creation plan for Moral Dolts without innate (genetic) ethical sensibilities to make them employable. (some morality is genetic and exists in monkeys and other primates)
Or worse, is this the follow-up to Cuomo suspending criminal prosecutions by the Attorney General, when Cuomo becomes governor?
The only moral or ethical code that works for government employees is laws with criminal penalties and prosecution certainty for those crimes. Andrew Cuomo failed miserably as Attorney General and as HUD Secretary. (see links in Index above).
This is Cuomo repeating his M.O., Modus operandi, "Lots of bluster about crime, ethics, cleaning the Swamp and then nothing as the crooks get away or get a slap on the wrist and they promise not to do it again."
How stupid does Cuomo think the People are? Only a dolt or moron would believe an ethics course every two years will stop a crooked state employee.
If you want ethics and better government, change the laws as in: Better Laws #1: Brave New NY Politician's World: Official Misconduct is a Felony
Change the old version of NY Penal Law: § 195.00 Official misconduct. A public servant is guilty of official misconduct when, with intent to obtain a benefit or deprive another person of a benefit: 1. He commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act is unauthorized; or
2. He knowingly refrains from performing a duty which is imposed upon him by law or is clearly inherent in the nature of his office. Official misconduct is a class A misdemeanor.
To a "Better" Penal Law (changes in red): § 195.00 Official misconduct.
A public servant is guilty of official misconduct when, with intent to obtain a benefit or deprive another person of a benefit:
1. He commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act is unauthorized; or
2. He knowingly refrains from performing a duty which is imposed upon him by law or is clearly inherent in the nature of his office.
3. Judges, judicial employees, employees of all NY State entities under judicial supervision and the Commission on Judicial Conduct are included as public servants under this law.
Official misconduct is a class C felony.Get real Andrew Cuomo, even Shakespeare knew learned morality is no hindrance to crime: "The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek." ~Merchant Of Venice.
Government employees with smiling cheeks learn ethics by watching the criminal prosecutions of caught government employees and the longer the sentence the deeper the learning goes.
Has Cuomo taken this ethics class?
News Flash: Last night, Cuomo awoke startled after again dreaming of the "Ghost of NY Yet To Come." He was sure, this time, he saw the pitchforks.
