Distractions? This is a guy who has steered us through the worst of times by keeping laser-focused on the task at hand. The pandemic is a distraction, as are the deaths of nearly 48,000 New Yorkers; the loss of billions in revenue; businesses, schools, cultural and arts venues closing, and the accompanying loss of tourism.
Ironically, calling for his resignation because he’s supposedly distracted is in itself a distraction.
He has shown us he can multi-task as he continues to deal with all of the overwhelming horrors that have beset us as a state. Yes, he’s been a bully. But damn — it took a bully to deal with a bully. Remember, he was one of the few governors who managed to stand up to the biggest bully in the country, former President Donald Trump when he was threatening to withhold emergency aid to what he deemed poorly run states — with Democratic governors.
He set out to prove how focused he remains on righting this ship of state, again, on Monday when he held a vaccination progress event at the Javits Center. He did so without the press — which wasn’t the right thing to do politically — but it was the right thing to do in order to refocus on the most right thing right now: getting all New Yorkers vaccinated.
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