In Cuomo We Don't Trust

During the past few months, ethics reform has been a hot topic from the federal, state and local level. Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing for a Purging Policy on state employees email. The new provision would automatically delete workers emails after a maximum of ninety days. Many voters say the new policy could create a more non-transparent administration loosing trust in the Governor.

Over eighty percent of voters said emails should be saved for a much longer time than the ninety-day proposal. Voters feel that the ninety-day email purge would create more corruption than it would help eliminate. Voters believe that politicians would use this new policy in a way that would be more unethical than if the email were kept.

This past Thursday, Albany responded in an unfriendly way. The introduction of two bills that would preserve state employees emails for a minimum of seven years is currently being drafted. The same day, Attorney General Schneiderman told the press that they would suspend the procedure of automatically deleting email until about solution will be implemented.

Voters are getting annoyed with the way the Governor is handling ethics reform in Cuomo’s Administration. Since 2007, Cuomo’s Administration has been automatically deleting emails after the ninety-day grace period. The Cuomo Administration has been called out for going out of their way to leave no trace of evidence behind. Many believe this situation could end up like the Hillary Clinton scandal regarding her personal emails. Does Governor Andrew Cuomo have to much power within his Administration?