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PUBLISHED 8:11 PM ET Apr. 26, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:11 PM EDT Apr. 26, 2021
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 emergency powers have remained unchecked, critics say.
In March 2020, while COVID-19 was sweeping the state, lawmakers granted the governor broad emergency powers that allowed him to override any state and local law.
Just recently, state lawmakers passed a bill that would limit that authority, with some Democrats claiming that this was a rollback of Cuomo’s emergency powers.
However, many lawmakers say this legislation does not go far enough.
“Ask a local business who s been impacted by these mandates whether anything has majorly changed for them since they supposedly took the powers away,” Assemblyman Edward Ra said. “They re still at the whims of the governor on a day-to-day basis, and in particular, the bars and restaurants, I think, feel very singled out at this point.”
Brian Candee, who has been in the restaurant business for 30 years, normally gets 50 to 60 emails when he puts a help wanted ad on Craigslist. But when he was hiring for Dinh Dinh Kitchen, his new Southeast Asian-American restaurant in Bedford Hills in Westchester County, he got zero.
Zero.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “I actually anticipated that hiring wouldn’t be too difficult because of the reduction of restaurants. I figured there would be a lot of good, skilled people looking for work.”
Others in the industry are experiencing the same thing.
Christopher Bates owns several restaurants in the Finger Lakes wine region. But lately you can find Bates