Rand Paul calls for Cuomo to be impeached over coronavirus response

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called Wednesday for the impeachment of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his handling of the state's coronavirus outbreak, saying, "The people we are lauding are actually making catastrophic decisions."

"I think Gov. Cuomo should be impeached … for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes. … Virtually half his people who died were in nursing homes," Paul said on Fox News's "Rundown" morning podcast.

Earlier in the show, Paul called in to question the pandemic lockdown imposed in New York in March, referencing the surge of cases across the state despite the shelter-in-place orders.

"New York had a lockdown and had 30,000 people die. New York had the worst death rate of any place in the world amidst a lockdown. So perhaps a lockdown didn't do any good, and perhaps a lockdown killed our economy but didn't do anything to stem the tide of a virus."

The Hill has reached out to Cuomo's office for comment.

Paul, a physician, said he thinks pandemic lockdowns "killed the economy but didn't do any good for trying to contain the virus."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/508581-rand-paul-calls-for-cuomo-to-be-impeached-over-coronavirus-response

Sierra Club removing monuments to founder John Muir over white supremacist ties

Muir has been called “The Father of our National Parks,” and his writings contributed to the creation of a number of national parks, including Yosemite, Sequoia, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon, according to the Sierra Club. He is also the namesake of the Muir Woods National Monument in California’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Sierra Club says.

Despite Muir’s contributions to the nation’s conservationist movement, he had friendships with known white supremacists, like renowned paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, “who worked for both the conservation of nature and the conservation of the white race,” according to the Sierra Club.

Osborn helped found the American Eugenics Society after Muir’s death, the Sierra Club said.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article244415312.html#storylink=cpy