To the Editor: The tragic and heart-rending events in the nursing-home scandal give us one more example of the stink-rot of corruption emanating from Governor Cuomo and point out the dire need for term limits at the state level.
Those who say that we can vote these politicians out of office are either cynically deceiving the people or are pathetically ignorant of the situation. A race between an incumbent and a challenger is like a footrace between a 60-year-old 250-pound man and a slim 20-year-old. The incumbent has great advantages in money, contacts, influence and overall power, stacking the odds overwhelmingly in his favor.
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