Top State Leader Says 'Cuomo Must Resign.' Governor Says 'No Way.'

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

ALBANY, N.Y. — In a potentially crippling defection in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s efforts to maintain power amid a sexual harassment scandal, the leader of the New York State Senate declared on Sunday that the governor should resign “for the good of the state.”

The leader of the Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat from Westchester County, said that New York was facing multiple challenges — including the ongoing pandemic — and had been buffeted by allegations about Mr. Cuomo’s behavior, his administration’s “toxic work environment,” and handling of the state’s nursing homes.

“Every day, there is another account that is drawing away from the business of government,” she said in a statement, adding, “We need to govern without daily distraction. Governor Cuomo must resign.”

Ms. Stewart-Cousins is the most prominent New York State official to call for Mr. Cuomo’s resignation, and her statement is more than symbolic: In 2008, when Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned during a prostitution scandal, his decision was partially precipitated by a loss of support from Albany’s legislative leaders.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/nyregion/cuomo-sex-harassment.html

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Peculiar that the blogosphere is so much more perceptive than a Democratic leader that this is some inconsequential activity and/or a Republican plot…

[brooklynite]

1. House Speaker agrees

Link to tweet

[Budi]

2. Cuomo doesn't have to do anything. He's there till the next election.

There's a big line up already fundraising & rolling out their 2022 campaigns & oddest thing is, They All Have The Same Message!



They're all gonna win! They're all gonna beat Cuomo.
At that rate Cuomo can run again & he'd probably win. Again.

Let the shitshow begin..

[Nixie]

7. Exactly. The timing of this is everything. We've seen this

before.

[Afromania]

3. I guess some folks have learned nothing from the Franken situation.

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Furthermore, did they forget the shit the other side just straight up said "nah, we aren't resigning" to over the last 4 years? The bar for these things has been obliterated. You've got to show up with collaborating witnesses, audio and video.

I'm not saying to not believe his accusers here. Our leaders just need to actually take a few minutes and investigate the claims. You know, before squaring up to show we are better than Republicans. They don't actually respect taking the appropriate course of action over there.

[Budi]

4. Anyone can say anything. I blame Trump for refusing Gov Cuomo's pleas for help

Refused because "NY is a Blue State"...

Cuomo was on his own.
I will never fault the Gov in that crisis.
That is all on Trump.

As for the misconduct, I call bs on a few of them.
🙄
I mean, c'mon.
One says 20 years ago he was aroused when she was in a hotel room with him.
WTF EVER.

I say start having them all turn over their text messages from the last 3 months.

Betcha there was some doozy of a pile on buzzing around...

[onetexan]

24. +1 -K&R. Cuomo should not resign on inuendo. There must be an investigation.

Remember during the general when some women accused Biden of inappropriate touching? Malarky. Imagine what wld've happened if he dropped out of the race due to unfounded nonsense. We would be a full-on fascist state by now.

[rainy]

5. I hope he does not resign.

He was literally our only leader and comforter during the height and fear of the pandemic when our country’s leadership was MIA. He is from the old school when some behaviors were standard in society. Remember all the cringe worthy movies from not that many years ago where big flirting in the work place was acceptable? It’s not ok and of course he has done the right thing by acknowledging how sorry he is and how embarrassed he is that he behaved that way. He shouldn’t resign over it though and until the country goes after the worst offenders, the criminal offenders, like Trump, with more vigor, they should leave Cuomo alone!!!
.

[Thekaspervote]

6. Dotard wants to weaken the Dems in NY put in a gop gov so he can get a state pardon!!

Don’t forget this!! The strongest possibility of him facing serious criminal charges is from NY!

[Nixie]

8. Oh yeah. All kinds of little "subsets" in on the action.

Who stands to gain from getting rid of Cuomo. Donald for one.

[GoldenMezzoDiva]

13. Man, this is SUCH a setup...

The eventual repug-nant lackey in the wings will
PARDON the Dump day-one. AND appoint repug-nant senators, if
the situation presents itself. AND declare
NYS 100% open for biz-ness san masks and SD. Duh!

[onetexan]

25. +1 -K&R

[Calista241]

34. The chances of a Repub winning this seat are so minimal as to be laughable.

Trump got less than 40% of the vote. I believed everyone here when they said Trump would pardon himself, and turns out it didn't happen. He didn't even pardon his kids.

Trump will get a slap on the wrist. Maybe he'll be double secret banned from running a charity. Trump and his future legal prospects should have ZERO weight applied to Cuomo and his actions while in office. Fuck Cuomo.

[MisterNiceKitty]

46. You really don't know what's going to happen in two years

[marieo1]

9. None of her business

Andrew Cuomo is a good man - he is a single man so why can't he flirt with the opposite sex? I worked for the State of MN for many years and saw this man/woman thing many, many times. I do not think he should resign. I have seen young girls throw themselves at their superiors and vice versa. Let Mr. Cuomo do his job. My opinion is these gals are paid off by someone and are in it for the money or it is coming from from the right wing. Ms Cousins needs to tend to her own business and let Mr. Cuomo tend to his.

[GoldenMezzoDiva]

12. I must say I agree..

Compared to the Dump, why is resignation even
broached? Again, this is the work of Roger gallStone.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I think he's trying to ride it out until no one cares anymore

That's workin' pretty good here in my corner of Ohio, let me tell ya'.

[GoldenMezzoDiva]

11. Probably setting the stage for her own gov run...

Have met her several times at various Dem events. Lovely and smart woman, but a pol
all the way. Boy oh boy, if only more Dems in her position had some restraint, at least
for now. Cuomo has been a great governor, if that counts for anything.
Meanwhile, if the Dump ends up skating state charges, I hope these righteous, squeaky clean
Dems will acknowledge their part in it.

[redstateblues]

14. After the Franken debacle I say ride it out.

[LenaBaby61]

44. "After the Franken debacle I say ride it out."

Totally agree.

My situation is a bit different, but I live in California and Grey Davis was also driven out on some bull shit. This state put GOP guy Ahnold in there as celebrity governor, and he proceeded to fuck this state up into complete and total HELL. Oh and by the way, Ahnold was married to Maria Shriver, and he was 'allegedly' boinking everything in a skirt while governor. Son with the housekeeper while married and governor. Maria also was pregnant at the same time as the housekeeper. The son looks more like Ahnold than any of his kids with Maria. Plus, Baena seems like he's a decent human being. Who'd have thought.

About His Affair: I 'Do Think About it Every So Often.'


Twenty years after secretly fathering a child with the family housekeeper, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s still working to put the mistake behind him.

“You do think about it every so often,” The Celebrity Apprentice host reveals in Men’s Journal, adding, “And I can beat myself up as much as I want — it’s not gonna change the situation. So the key thing is, how do you move forward? How do you have a great relationship with your kids?”

The affair came to light the day after he left the California governor’s office in 2011. In a therapy session with his wife Maria Shriver and their four children, the actor confirmed he fathered a son with their maid Mildred Baena. Their child, Joseph, was 14 at the time. Shriver filed for divorce shortly after the revelation.

https://people.com/celebrity/arnold-schwarzenegger-affair/#:~:text=In%20a%20therapy%20session%20with,with%20their%20maid%20Mildred%20Baena.

Ahnold was busy alright.

Son WHILE governor:



Not saying that Cuomo didn't make these women fell uncomfortable, which is wrong. I've been there and done that with Catholic Priests.

BUT, there's something very fish about the timing, and as we know we know, the GQP is notorious for going after people for their possible affairs/sexual lives for political capital & gain, and my God, we know how they roll with their OWN sordid marriages, affairs, telling mistresses to get abortions even though these man are anti-abortions for WOMEN in general.

Wonder what Roger Stone and the other filth buckets in the GQP have to do with this? Something's WAY off with the Cuomo situation and the timing.

[LPBBEAR]

15. The Real Target....

here is Letitia James. None of this is coincidence.

[Thekaspervote]

19. Definitely..dotard backs one of his lackey friends running for gov. Gets rid of her, gets a state

Pardon...this is a set up for sure

[onetexan]

26. Bingo!!

[PoliticAverse]

35. In New York State the Attorney General is a separately elected position...

not under the control/supervision of the Governor. The Governor can't fire her. In fact she is running investigations of both Trump and Cuomo.

[Warpy]

16. This is a stupid distraction. His real problem is falsifying nursing home Cpvod death data

Instead of bloviating and hyperventilating over a toxic office culture that should be addressed by the courts, they need to be questioning bis data manipulation. I'd be fascinated to hear his reasons for that.

The toxic office culture was enabled and enforced by other people, some of them women. Having him resign over that won't address the core problem.

[Historic NY]

22. Because its becoming a nothing

this was a topic months ago with an investigation. From the very beginning they were not counting the death from nursing homes that died in hospitals. I got off a plane from Florida a day or so before the lock-down and my community was suddenly hit with multiple deaths in private nursing home. The county run facility had a large number. I meant with one ME office investigator at a funeral, and they said the number was much higher but for now they didn't include hospital deaths in their tally. Then there was the Medicare crap that came out of DC. Remember this was all going away.

[link:https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf|

A lot of the what nots can be found in the above report

*One of the factors that has been suggested by some observers to contribute to nursing home infections and subsequent fatalities is that the admission of COVID-positive residents introduced COVID into nursing homes.However,data does not support this assertion.

[onetexan]

27. Exactly. The argument should be that the federal government completely stopped counting at one point

During the con's admin. This should not be pinned on cuomo. This is vengeful accusations by cuomo's critics.

[marieo1]

17. Agreement

Andrew Cuomo is a good man...............do not resign...........Mr. Cuomo!! By resigning, you will admit your guilt!! She is just a hard core politician with her own ambitions!!

[FBaggins]

18. "Top state leader"?

Wouldn't that be the governor of the state?

[madville]

20. No, it's the leader of the State Senate that will impeach him

Sounds like NY State Dems see an opportunity to kick Cuomo to the curb, will open a lot of doors

[Budi]

36. The Govenor of NY is the only one who can issue Trump a Pardon

..for State cases

[Historic NY]

21. It almost like someone engineered this

Who would benefit the most with Cuomo gone?

[Lancero]

23. Kathleen Hochul, their Lieutenant Governor who will take over his job.

Who will, for some reason, move to pardon Trump. At least, according to all the theories flying about that he wants Cuomo gone in hopes of making NY's investigation into him go away.

Kathleen Hochul, who is a Democrat.

...Yeah, a lot of those interesting (Read, conspiracy) theories that say Trump is behind this tend to NOT explain why Kathleen Hochul would be working with Trump. Especially considering the handful of times she called him on his bullshit.

Can we PLEASE leave the crackpot theories to the GQP?

[Historic NY]

31. She won't win state wide office thats the problem.

Even as she has moved around the state she is an unknown from Erie County.

[Budi]

37. Trump. And anybody but a true blue Democrat

[Polybius]

43. The NY restaurant industry

n/t

[ShepKat]

28. I smell stefaniQ all over this

after she devotes herself to 4 years of captain pussy grabber.... there was no rape, no sex. There were inappropriate questions and slight boundary crossing. In other words, typical old school italian responses. He kissed hands, gave hugs, and asked questions. She will stop trumps lawsuits with everything she has. Hypocrite.

[brooklynite]

32. So all four former Democratic aides are is working fit the GOP...

Good to know.

[cstanleytech]

29. Before he resigns there needs to be an investigation to

determine if the accusations are valid. If they are then maybe he should resign.

[usaf-vet]

30. Hell NO! If the voters of New York want him gone they will get a chance in the next election.

Until then he needs to stay put.

Al Franken SHOULD NEVER HAVE RESIGNED. He was a smart great Senator. I hope he seeks another elected office in the future.

[kimbutgar]

33. Could this be the reason mf45 is moving back to New York to attack Cuomo and get him to resign?

I believe Cuomo is probably caustic but he is a good governor. No one is perfect.

[PoliticAverse]

39. The Trump family is moving back to New York City because that's where they are from.

It is what they know best.

[ancianita]

38. She's also an ambitious leader, but in this case, she's playing right into trumpcult hands.

All this is over

1. "uncomfortable in the work place,"
2. "obnoxious, embarrassing questions" and a
3. "hand on the back and kiss on the cheek" at a wedding.

None of these allegations rise to the level of a misdemeanor.

Question: Who are behind this right wing corporate (dark) money messaging. Whoever it is backed trump, the Hillary/Obama hater.

[PoliticAverse]

40. "rise to the level of a misdemeanor." - sexual harrassment isn't a criminal matter. n/t

[ancianita]

41. None of the claims constitute sexual harassment, either. So, what's your point.

[PoliticAverse]

42. Really?...

“Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched,” wrote Lindsey Boylan on the platform. “I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.”

(From: https://nypost.com/2020/12/13/lindsey-boylan-alleges-cuomo-sexually-harassed-her-about-looks/ )

[ancianita]

45. She let it go on for years? And now wants to tell it? After he's saved millions in NY?

I'm assuming that AG James is assembling the evidence from the "many saw it and watched" group. Per your link, maybe we know why they watched:

Boylan abruptly resigned her state job following scrutiny of her own conduct in the workplace — including allegations of harassment, according to personnel documents obtained by The Post.

According to an internal memo from September of that year, three black employees went to state human resources officials accusing Boylan, who is white, of being a “bully” who “treats them like children.”...

Confronted with that and other workplace misconduct allegations — including that she let her travel expenses pile up to the tune of $8,000 before reconciliation, and told a subordinate she’d accept her resignation without consulting human resources — in a subsequent sit-down with state honchos, Boylan voluntarily resigned her post, the documents indicate.

As for her alleging a toxic work environment, she'd apparently done her share.