Today's update; new scandal added to possible impeachment charges/rationale.

The "Buffalo Billion" sounds like typical NY cronyism to me but I don't know much about it. He has come out and said he won't resign (never mind how he had demanded the NY AG do so based on allegations). State dem leadership in the legislature has ok'd members to support impeachment.

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"They don't override the people's will, they don't get to override elections," Cuomo said. "I was elected by the people of New York state. I wasn't elected by politicians."
In a phone call with Stewart-Cousins on Sunday before the press conference, Cuomo told her they would have to impeach him if they wanted him gone, a source told AP.
Some lawmakers in the state have already called for Cuomo's impeachment.

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At least some members of Cuomo's party in the legislature were already prepared for that eventuality. Six Democrats issued a letter yesterday calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. They're going to need a lot more members to get on board before that could happen, but now that the leadership has broken ranks, they have provided cover for the rest of the pack to do the same.

There was one other notable development coming out of yesterday's announcements that I wanted to touch on. When the Senate Majority Leader released her full statement calling for Cuomo to resign, she began by listing the same two issues that everyone else is citing. One is the nursing home scandal and the other is the sexual harassment allegations. But after that, Andrea Stewart-Cousins dropped in another complaint about the Governor. While listing all of the "distractions" that Cuomo is causing, she said, "there are also questions about the construction of a major infrastructure project."

This is a subject that the media has largely been loath to discuss, at least in terms of directly tying Andrew Cuomo to it. The "major infrastructure project" Stewart-Cousins was referring to was obviously the Buffalo Billion. That was a massive spending package ostensibly intended to spur manufacturing growth and jobs in the upstate New York region. But it quickly became mired in scandals, with opportunistic Cuomo aides and donors lining their own pockets. Some of Cuomo's tightest allies were sent to prison, while others were convicted but given lighter sentences.

Almost miraculously, even when so many in his orbit were being taken down, Andrew Cuomo himself somehow never wound up being seriously investigated, to say nothing of being charged with anything. The idea that he was completely blind to what was going on is laughable, but the Teflon Governor managed to skate away. Now, with the Senate Majority Leader resurrecting that story and tying it to the list of Cuomo's other scandals, it may turn out to be yet another log being tossed on the woodpile surrounding the metaphorical stake to which they plan to lash Cuomo.

Could this be the beginning of the end? As I pointed out over the weekend, if the Democrats do manage to impeach Cuomo it will be only the second time that's happened to a sitting governor in the history of the state. (The first was William Sulzer in 1913, who was in a fued with the Tammany Hall gang.) Break out the popcorn, folks. We may have lived to see even more interesting times.

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This is interesting. Leaving aside that there is good reason for him to resign, has the global Left decided they want Cuomo out of politics? This kind of concerted attack by the surrogates doesn't happen spontaneously. Especially on a left Democrat.

Afternoon update: 6th accuser?

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But we now have two distinct scandals running full bore on parallel tracks. Ed wrote earlier about the new revelations that Cuomo's disastrous nursing-home policy at the start of the pandemic wasn't limited to nursing homes. The Times-Union meanwhile has added another allegation to the list of Cuomo's personal misdeeds. The worse this headache gets, the more desperate New York Democrats will be to end it.

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A sixth woman has come forward and leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and a supervisor in the Executive Chamber recently became aware the woman had alleged that the governor inappropriately touched her late last year during an encounter at the governor's mansion, where she had been summoned to do work
The complaint was reported to the governor's counsel by other employees in the Executive Chamber. The information also was relayed by the governor's office to the attorney general's office, which is coordinating an investigation into multiple allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against the governor.
The sixth woman, whose identity is being withheld by the Times Union because she could not be reached for comment, is a member of the Executive Chamber staff.

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Cuomo's strategy for now is to simply play for time, hope that the AG probe isn't too hard on him, and then follow the Ralph Northam path back to semi-respectability by trusting his party and his state's voters to just sort of forget everything. "The old resignation playbook is out," a Cuomo advisor recently told The Atlantic, mentioning Northam and his ability to survive and thrive by simply riding out the storm. But it's hard for a control freak like Cuomo, who's used to bullying other officials into getting his way, to sit around powerless while his fate is in the hands of attorney general Letitia James. His staff reportedly has tried to use the AG investigation to Cuomo's own benefit, in fact, citing it as a reason why he shouldn't step down prematurely.

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Stay tuned for more from that. For what it's worth, NYC councilman Joe Borelli, a Republican, claimed yesterday that there are more than enough votes in the state legislature to remove Cuomo but that's highly unlikely at the moment given that both chambers are controlled by Democrats. James's investigation really is helping him keep them at bay, as is the bitterness in Democratic circles over progressive star Al Franken being pressured into resigning before he had a full accounting by the Senate Ethics Committee or some other relevant tribunal. If James accuses him of something criminal, that's the end for Cuomo. If she accuses him of "inappropriate" but otherwise legal behavior, I doubt Dem lawmakers will cross him. There's still a chance he gets reelected next year, after all, as hard as it may be to imagine. If you kick Andrew Cuomo when he's down by trying to take him out and you fail, he'll make you pay if and when he's back on top again. And every Democrat in New York knows it.

In lieu of an exit question, go read this laughable dreck in the New York Daily News about Cuomo's pandemic record, which I assume was written as a favor to him. I'd hate to imagine that it was written in earnest.

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I notice our board moderates and concerned moderates (even Cuomosexuals) continue to not have much to say about this, unlike how they treated Kavanaugh for instance. Weird, I really wonder why that is?

Does this remind anyone else of Al Capone?

Can't get Capone/Cuomo for graft

Can't get Capone/Cuomo for killing grandma

But we can get Capone/Cuomo for taxes/sex

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This is interesting. Leaving aside that there is good reason for him to resign, has the global Left decided they want Cuomo out of politics? This kind of concerted attack by the surrogates doesn't happen spontaneously. Especially on a left Democrat.

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Since the Democrats feel empowered having control of executive and legislative branches, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if there is some infighting going on for that power.

They may be culling the herd of potential 2024 candidates as well - interesting indeed.

WaPo hit piece from yesterday about toxic work environment;

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Now, two new reports seem to serve as a stunning indictment of Cuomo as a manipulative, vindictive tyrant who sought to exact revenge in the workplace on anyone male or female whom he considered an unwanted obstacle.
On Tuesday the Washington Post released an exclusive report with details on Gov. Cuomo from the very people who know him best: the employees, subordinates, and others who have worked alongside him for up to thirty years. Some, while not employees, associated with him as a part of their jobs.
The piece, titled "Cuomo's behavior created 'hostile, toxic' workplace culture for decades, former aides say," explained that the "toxic culture" in Cuomo's office wasn't reserved for women:

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What Cuomo has touted as an "aggressive" style goes far beyond that behind the scenes, according to more than 20 people who have worked with him from the 1990s to the present. Many former aides and advisers described to The Post a toxic culture in which the governor unleashes searing verbal attacks on subordinates. Some said he seemed to delight in humiliating his employees, particularly in group meetings, and would mock male aides for not being tough enough.

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It also included some of the alleged, degrading remarks the men endured from Cuomo, their boss:

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Two male aides who worked for Cuomo in the New York governor's office say he routinely berated them with explicit language, making comments such as calling them "*******" and saying, "You have no balls."

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As the story notes, numerous employees spoke to the publication only on the condition of anonymity and for a good reason: (emphasis mine)

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The Post reached out to more than 150 former and current Cuomo staffers, stretching back to his time at HUD in Washington. Most did not respond. Among those who did, the majority spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they said they still fear his wrath and his power to destroy careers.

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One man, it claimed, quit before Cuomo could get him fired, comparing the situation to feeling like "a freaking speed bump":

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In 2013, Michael Fayette, a state Department of Transportation engineer, gave a few quotes about his department's operations during Hurricane Irene to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. His statements were innocuous"We were up for it," he told the paperbut they hadn't been cleared by the higher-ups in Albany. The press found out that Fayette's superiors were moving to terminate him, and started asking how it was possible for someone to be fired over such a harmless episode. In response, a top Cuomo aide gave a radio interview during which he read aloud misconduct allegations contained in Fayette's personnel files, including that he'd had an improper relationship with a subordinate. "They can run over you like you're a freaking speed bump," Fayette, who retired before he could be fired, told me, last week.

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But one of the more damning revelations came from a time long before Cuomo entered the governor's office. That accusation of payback stretches back to Cuomo's time in the late '90s and early '00s inside the Clinton White House as Housing and Urban Development Secretary. The New Yorker wrote:

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In the nineteen-nineties, while Cuomo was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under Bill Clinton, he fell into a long-running feud with Susan Gaffney, the agency's inspector general. In 2000, Gaffney accused Cuomo of sexual discrimination. "Gaffney claims that Cuomo has called her at home on weekends to berate her, has started collecting information to smear her, and has leaked damaging information about her," the Post reported, at the time. In the same story, a Cuomo spokesperson said, of Gaffney, "This is nothing more than a diversion from her misconduct regarding the downloading of pornography in her office and retaliation for our efforts to get to the bottom of it."

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But Gaffney wasn't the only employee who had an incident allegedly involving Cuomo while at HUD, according to the New Yorker piece:

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Karen Hinton, who worked for Cuomo when he was at hud, and who later served as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's press secretary, told me that in 2015, during an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the state, Cuomo didn't like a statement that she had given to the Times. He called one of de Blasio's deputy mayors and said that if Hinton wasn't fired he would blame de Blasio "personally" for the deaths in New York City. "When I left the Mayor's office, there was no Democratic-owned public-relations firm that would hire me," Hinton, who left the de Blasio administration in 2016, told me. "Because of Andrew."

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Oh, and about that 6th accuser;

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One of Governor Andrew Cuomo's current employees in the state's executive chambers has alleged inappropriate sexual conduct by him, making her the sixth woman to describe unwanted sexual advances, and the fifth person he worked with to do so, according to a report from the Times-Union.
The woman reportedly told her supervisors that Cuomo touched her inappropriately when she was summoned to work at the governor's mansion late last year. Asked about the allegations during a press call on Tuesday afternoon, Cuomo denied any knowledge of them, though the Times-Union had reached out to Cuomo's office and received a comment from Beth Garvey, Cuomo's acting counsel.

Cuomo's office didn't return our request for further comment; Garvey had told the Times-Union, "All allegations that we learn of directly or indirectly are going promptly to the investigators appointed by the attorney general."

The Times-Union's didn't have further details about the woman's identity or her account, though if corroborated, the woman would be the only current staffer to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment, as well as the most recent example of it.
The allegations of Cuomo acting inappropriately now span two decades.

• Karen Hinton's account is from 2000, when Cuomo led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and she was press secretary. She described Cuomo summoning her to a dimly lit hotel room where he pulled her in for a long, uncomfortable embrace.
• Ana Liss, who worked in Cuomo's office between 2013 and 2015, was told by another staffer at the time to wear heels, and that Cuomo liked blondes. She told Gothamist that Cuomo regularly kissed her on the cheek.
• Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to come forward on February 24th, recounted how Cuomo joked about playing strip poker, went out of his way to touch parts of her body and kissed her when she was in his Manhattan office in 2018.
• Charlotte Bennett, 25, said Cuomo asked her questions about sexual intimacy and whether she would date older men when she worked in his office last year.
• Anna Ruch never worked for Cuomo, only met him in passing at a wedding in 2019, where she says he slipped his arm down her back, grabbed her face in both hands, and kissed her on the cheek.

Political pressure has been mounting from all sides on Cuomo as he faces dueling controversies: his coverup of nursing home deaths and sexual harassment allegations. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called for Cuomo's resignation on Sunday, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie stopped just short of doing the same, saying Cuomo should "seriously consider" whether he can continue to lead the state.

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Will we have 10 or more accusers by the end of this week, or next? LOL at Fredo's brother, and all of the leftists now silent on him.

Accuser 7 is on deck, this one claiming sexual assault;

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The staff member, whose identity is being withheld by the Times Union, had been called to the mansion under the apparent pretext of having her assist the governor with a minor technical issue involving his mobile phone. They were alone in Cuomo's private residence on the second floor of the mansion when he closed the door and allegedly reached under her blouse and began to fondle her, according to the source.
The person, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the woman who is much younger than Cuomo told the governor to stop. Her broader allegations include that he frequently engaged in flirtatious behavior with her, and that it was not the only time that he had touched her.

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The woman is not the person who is reporting this incident to the Times Union, so that is an important fact to keep in mind. She has never filed a complaint regarding the episode. Here is how the story describes the incident becoming known to members of Cuomo's staff.

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The woman's story was revealed within the governor's Executive Chamber on March 3, as staff members watched his first news conference in the week since Lindsey Boylan published an online essay detailing her own allegations against Cuomo. In the news conference, the governor denied ever touching any women "inappropriately."
Hearing those remarks, the female aide became emotional. At least one female supervisor came to her aide and asked her why she was upset. The female aide subsequently told the supervisor what she said had been inappropriate encounters with Cuomo, the source said.

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As the story indicates, this complicates the investigation that has now been initiated by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The limit of her authority under New York law is to conduct an investigation into allegations of workplace misconduct that might be in violation of various civil laws making such misconduct unlawful. Her authority does not extend to conducting a criminal investigation. That would be the responsibility of the Albany County District Attorney.

But this allegation takes Cuomo's conduct to an entirely different level unwanted and assaultive behavior of a sexual nature.

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The allegations against Cuomo have all built upon one another in a mutually validating fashion for the past two weeks. There is no evidence of any coordination or allegiance among these women with respect to the specifics of their stories or the manner in which they have come to light. They have simply endured similar experiences at the hands of the Governor and found courage in the strength of the others to speak out.

The Democrat establishment in New York has no reason to stick with Cuomo in his effort to obtain a fourth term. He will have Democrat opponents in the primary. There might not be outright abandonment of him by Democrat party interest groups until they know who they will throw their support behind who is going to promise them the most.

But Andrew Cuomo's days in office are numbered. It's not a question of "if" any longer, only a question of when.

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I'm reminded of this post from jj91/maroon goon from July; no comment though on this thread from him/her.

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Definitely the model to follow. Putting other governors to shame. He made mistakes in the beginning but owned up to it. Unlike others that don't know how to.

And it is not that they have herd immunity. Wishful thinking. To get immunity, you need to have around 80%. They are far from that. He stuck to his guns and now it's paying off dividends.

Kudos to him for having the balls to do the right thing and not follow Trump like sheep on the way to the slaughter house.

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I'm having a tough time keeping up but it sounds like there are now 7 confirmed accusers, and the legislature (and both US Senators) are pushing him to resign or face impeachment.

It's entertaining to recall how voting for his dad was opposing 'homo's.' Such a heroic family for the American left of today.

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Cast your mind back to 1982 for a moment. Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo was contesting for the Democratic nomination for governor against New York City mayor Edward Koch, a colorful figure with many sensible views acquired from experience. (He wrote an article for The Public Interest in 1980 explaining that having become mayor, he wished he'd voted against a number of law that he supported in the U.S. House because he now saw their difficulties from the perspective of a responsible executive.)

There had long been rumors about Mayor Koch's sexual preference, and there was a whispering campaign that went beyond whispering to the broadside reproduced here"Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo." Although produced by someone "not affiliated with any campaign," it was widely thought then and now that the Cuomo campaign, and Andrew Cuomo in particular, was behind this ugly inneundo.

Now fast forward to today. New York magazine is out today with a long featureabout what a nasty human being Andrew Cuomo is, containing, if my scorecard is up to date, a new allegation of sexual harassment from a 7th woman. Strange that the media is just now reporting what all the stories say has long been widely knownthat Cuomo is a pig and a bully and all-around horrible human being. Actually not strange at allwith Trump gone his usefulness is a rapidly depreciating asset, and might even drag down the entire Democratic ticket in New York next year if he stands for re-election.

This got me to thinking about something I haven't read almost since Mario Cuomo was governorF.A. Hayek's chapter "Why the Worst Get on Top" in The Road to Serfdom. I've sometimes been impatient with a certain type of libertarian who cites this chapter title as a summary way of expressing their distaste for allelected officials, and then preen about how above it all they are by not voting or getting their hands grubby with practical politics of any kind. Of course, this is a total misreading of Hayek's chapter, which was that a totalitarian socialist system will eventually devolve into a rule by the worst sort of human beinga proposition that seems empirically true. This was much less true of a classically liberal (constitutional) regime. I mean seriouslywas Ronald Reagan the worst? In the solipsistic dream world of the dogmatic libertarian, you'll often get a "Yes" answer.

Here's a key passage from Hayek on the point:

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Just as the democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans, so the totalitarian dictator would soon have to choose between disregard of ordinary morals and failure. It is for this reason that the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism. Who does not see this has not yet grasped the full width fo the gulf which separates totalitarianism from a liberal regime, the utter difference between the whole moral atmosphere under collectivism and the essentially individualist Western civilization.

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To be sure, insofar as the powers Cuomo and other governors like him assumed under "emergency" circumstances of COVID have brought out their inner dictator, they fit Hayek's description of "the worst." But it is worth keeping on with Hayek, as his next chapter in The Road to Serfdom is "The End of Truth."

And here is a perfect description of the kind of post-modern Progressivism we see everywhere today. He quotes the great Marxist historian E.H. Carr that "It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry." There follows a discussion from Hayek on why socialists have to corrupt the idea of truth itself in order for them to pursue their designs. In this respect, Cuomo's piggishness is notyetthe worst offender, though he may yet complete the cycle. Watch for him to straddle the issue of his harassment by talking about not wishing to contest "their" truth when discussing specific allegations of harassment. For a leftist, all "truth" today is not just relative or subjective, but also proprietary.

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Still waiting for our resident leftist cuomosexuals/'gay rights' folks to come out and discuss this wonderful Dem governor/Emmy winner's performance/character in 2021.

And, crickets about 'vote for Cuomo not the homo.' As expected. Meanwhile....

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/13/cuomo-gets-mocked-mercilessly-over-blanket-pic-n342730

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Last night, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo excited a lot of comment when he was spotted wearing a blanket, with a drink in his hand, and talking on the phone. This was after a NY Magazine ran a story that it was now 30 women who had accused him of bullying or harassing them and after Senate Majority Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on him to resign, as RedState reported Friday afternoon.

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Cuomo has denied any wrongdoing and has refused to resign. But at this point, he doesn't look like he has any support left among his fellow politicians although there are some rabid conspiracy truthers on social media who are convinced this is just some Trump plot to take him out, so there couldn't be a case filed in New York against President Donald Trump.

Don't worry, if it doesn't make sense; it's not supposed to, it's another crazy Blue Anon conspiracy but it's all over social media by folks on the left. But beyond the crazies, he's definitely in deep political trouble. Karma has finally come home to roost for this slimy character.

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9th accuser is out.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-accuser-sherry-vill-new-york-kiss

Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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He definitely will. His level of arrogance has no bounds.

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Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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Heard on the radio today that he has a 75% approval rating among NY Democrats.

GO TEAM BLUE and to hell with women and old people, is apparently their mantra.

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Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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Heard on the radio today that he has a 75% approval rating among NY Democrats.

GO TEAM BLUE and to hell with women and old people, is apparently their mantra.

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Seriously. This whole thing is textbook hypocrisy. Anyone that could support this killer is a soulless piece of *****

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Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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Heard on the radio today that he has a 75% approval rating among NY Democrats.

GO TEAM BLUE and to hell with women and old people, is apparently their mantra.

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Wow.

Democrats are soulless shells with zero morals nor ethics if that is true.

https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/25/cuomo-schumer-gillibrand-approval-rating/

Sad to say it's true. He's even at 53% overall

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CanyonAg77 said:

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Seems like he's going to survive this at this point.

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Heard on the radio today that he has a 75% approval rating among NY Democrats.

GO TEAM BLUE and to hell with women and old people, is apparently their mantra.

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Seriously. This whole thing is textbook hypocrisy. Anyone that could support this killer is a soulless piece of *****

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What does that say of those who control the narrative?

What does Whoopi think?

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https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/25/cuomo-schumer-gillibrand-approval-rating/

Sad to say it's true. He's even at 53% overall

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"The weeks of scandal have taken a toll....his approval rating is down to 75%."

Lol. JFC. Democrats are close to the point where they could kill innocent people live on tv with melee weapons and their voters would cheer it.

Do have they no shame?

Do they have no shame? This is a rhetorical question, right ? It has to be !!

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Do they have no shame? This is a rhetorical question, right ? It has to be !!

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Oh, it is.

He likely will survive, but will never be President because of this

Double standard for dems and Republicans, just like there are two tiers of justice.

The rabid left tries to keep Kavanaugh off the SCOTUS for a highly dubious claim (lies) of inappropriate contact in college by a leftist partisan hack, but a serial sexual harasser with a D by his name retains his office.

It truly is all about the power. What is even more frustrating is that a corporate CEO would be out of a job and likely lose his pension over far less (see MCD as a recent example).

Defend this libs and CMs.

"Andrew Cuomo 63-year-old creepy perve" is not exactly the kind of moniker you want to run for reelection behind.

Disagree. The Democrats continually run on that with all their perverts! Hell, look at our criminal in Chief!

By the way, I don't watch CNN so I wouldn't know but is Fredo still on "leave"?

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He likely will survive, but will never be President because of this

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He's never gon' be President now
Never gon' be President now

That's one less thing to worry about
That's one less thing to worry about

(If you've seen Hamilton you'll understand that reference)

He really is about the worst. It's amazing they are considering not removing him by the end of the week.

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We would always hear, 'This is coming from the governor's chamber.' What the hell does that mean?" the nurse added.

Another nurse told the paper there was a frantic effort to test Cuomo's family members and send their samples to a state lab in Albany via state troopers for immediate results.

"I remember them being like, 'They're coming, they're coming,'" the nurse told the paper.
"And they would say, 'have the state trooper ready have it ready to go to Wadsworth.' There was a lot of anxiety over those samples getting to the right place."

"The word was 'priority'," one nurse said, according to the article. "They would say, 'We have a priority at 10:00, a priority at 11:00.' I can't say that I know that they were all important to the governor, but that is what we were told."

"They were treated like royalty," the nurse said. "I didn't understand why they were able to jump the line."
The VIP tests were given to people, "who had the resources and educational wherewithal," to see private doctors, one source told the newspaper.

"There is no reason why state testing teams should have been diverted to these people," that person reportedly said.

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/new-details-on-cuomos-vip-covid-19-testing-scheme-revealed/

Ok, some more hope;

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Now, finally, New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor Michael Goodwin Goodwin is not on Andy's Christmas card list is pretty sure Cuomo is indeed going somewhere, and probably sooner than later.

In a Tuesday op-ed for the Post titled "The Walls Close in Around Andrew Cuomo," Goodman described the three-term NY governor as an "extreme micromanager" who is surrounded by a "small band" of loyal aides, most of whom are a generation younger than him.

"They are essentially on call 24/7," wrote Goodwin, "and are involved in all aspects of his job, from running the executive branch to dealing with legislators and the media.
Goodman said it's an understatement to describe top Cuomo aides as "fiercely-loyal."

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"Cuomo demands total fealty and their approach to the world was once described by Steven Cohen, a longtime Cuomo aide, and friend, as simple: 'We operate at two speeds here: Get along and kill.'"

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And here's where the plot now thickens, believes the columnist who has been all over Andrew Cuomo like Michael Moore on a side of beef rare, of course.

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Those loyalties are now facing a crucial test. Growing out of the two major investigations into Cuomo's conduct, dozens of people in the executive office, including the inner circle, recently received subpoenas.

Being forced to produce official documents and give testimony under oath to government agents tends to clarify priorities, and even die hard loyalists will tell the whole truth instead of risking a perjury rap. The subpoenas thus represent a new dimension of the probes and create serious new threats to Cuomo's hold on his office.

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The subpoenas, which include demands for testimony and documents, are coming as the result of an FBI investigation into whether Cuomo illegally withheld nursing home fatalities from the Department of Justice and an investigation by the office of Democrat Attorney General Letitia James into the numerous sexual harassment allegations. For those of you keeping score at home, the number of accusers now stands at nine.

The FBI probe presents greater legal jeopardy for Cuomo, because "the prospect of criminal conduct is more pronounced, wrote Goodwin: "There is no doubt Cuomo's team lied about nursing home deaths and withheld the truth by changing an official Health Department report." Goodwin laid out one scenario in which a Cuomo aide could throw the governor under the bus in a heartbeat.

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"Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, admitted the state withheld the total deaths because it was afraid the feds would 'use it against us.' She said that in a call to legislators she believed was private, but after The Post obtained a recording and published her comments, the FBI opened its case. Whether the actions constitute a crime is the issue.

"Consider a likely interrogation scenario: DeRosa, under oath, is asked by the FBI about changes to the official report and her remarks on the phone call. Agents and prosecutors, armed with Health Department documents and sworn testimony from aides who leaked the scheme to the media, ask why the report was changed and why DOJ got inaccurate numbers."

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"We were told from the beginning that was a typical move of his," said Alyssa McGrath, one of Cuomo's accusers: "Who was the girl of the week? Who was the girl of the month?"

One thing now seems certain. Contrary to Andrew Cuomo's continuing defiant claim that he's "not going anywhere, " it finally appears that yes, yes Gov. Cuomo, you are. The only question that remains is whether you will ultimately resign as those walls closing in around you are right before your eyes, or you are indeed dragged out of the governor's office, kicking and screaming the entire way.

On one hand, Cuomo has the choice to hold onto a microscopic shred of decency by walking out rather than being dragged out. Besides, if he refuses and is ultimately dragged out of office, he will forever have lost the impeachment game to his "arch-enemy" other than NYC's hapless mayor, Bill de Blasio Donald Trump.

Incidentally, this was a perfect cherry atop the Andrew Cuomo sundae, don't you think? Other than the "shock," I mean.

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"Sources told the Times Union and Washington Post that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) instructed state health officials to "prioritize" coronavirus testing for members of his family, including his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo."

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Side note, where are our board 'Cuomosexuals' and other types who hailed him in March-June-July? Where, in fact, is Fredo, still talking trash to some poor sap biker who asked him why he was violating covid protocol?

LOL.

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Since Cuomo's book was published, blaming New York's high death toll on the virus supposedly sneaking here from Europe, the coronavirus has killed about 15,000 additional people in New York. Many more are getting sick and being transported to the kinds of underfunded hospitals Cuomo is always trying to downsize or close down altogether

Cuomo's paean to his own pandemic response was supposed to crown his dubious career and effectively disseminate propaganda that would make him beloved by the public forever. It explains away how he dismissed the idea of a shelter-in-place order for New York and pretends he did not, for much of March 2020, compare the coronavirus to the flu while also insisting that fear was at least as dangerous as the disease. And it elides how he forced nursing homes to readmit coronavirus patients, created a far-reaching immunity shield for health-care facilities and hospitals that only Mitch McConnell could dream of, and undercounted deaths in nursing homes.

Had Cuomo been a little less reckless and arrogant, he may have gotten away with all of it. Most journalists and pundits believed he had done the best he could in the first month of the pandemic, even if that was not the case. The real nursing home death toll could've been shared with the state legislature.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coronavirus-is-ravaging-new-york-again-after-cuomos-leadership-lessons?source=articles&via=rss

NEXT!

New day, fresh new Cuomo scandal, this one also involving conversion of state resources for his personal ones.

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Is the Love Gov trying to set a world record for number of concurrent scandals? The New York Times reported last night that Andrew Cuomo got paid $4 million for his auto-hagiography, American Crisis, but the scandal involved how the book got produced. The governor put his staff to work in editing the book staff paid by New York taxpayers to do it gratis, in another example of Cuomo's conversion of public resources for private gain.

And of course, while they edited and researched Cuomo's book, they also edited state health department reports to cover up nursing-home deaths:

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The book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic," was a dramatic retelling of the battle against the virus in a state where nearly 50,000 people have died. It would garner Mr. Cuomo a fleeting spot on the best-seller list.

Emails and an early draft of Mr. Cuomo's book obtained by The New York Times indicate that the governor was writing it as early as mid-June, relying on a cadre of trusted aides and junior staffers for everything from full-scale edits to minor clerical work, potentially running afoul of state laws prohibiting use of public resources for personal gain.

One aide to the governor, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that she and others were also asked to assist in typing or transferring notes for Mr. Cuomo's book, which he composed in part by dictating into a cellphone.

"Sorry lady can u print this too and put in a binder," Ms. Benton wrote to another female staffer on July 5, a Sunday. "And drop at mansion."

Ms. DeRosa, the highest nonelected official in Mr. Cuomo's office, was particularly involved with the development of the book, and was present during some online pitch meetings with Mr. Cuomo. The July 5 request, in fact, was to print a 224-page draft entitled "MDR edits" a reference to Ms. DeRosa, who had sent the draft to Ms. Benton on July 4, according to the emails.

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The new scandal described by the NYT is the same type as the most recent scandal conversion of public resources for private use. The state of New York has a specific law against what Cuomo allegedly did here, which the NYT notes, but it would be an ethical violation even if the statute didn't exist. Put simply, Cuomo stole resources in the form of public-employee time for the purpose of earning the $4 million advance from Crown for his book.

It's very similar to allegations that Cuomo stole resources from the state's pandemic effort to benefit his brother Chris, other family members, friends, and allies. If all these allegations are true, then Cuomo clearly thinks that the assets placed at his disposal as a public servant are for his own personal benefit rather than provided by taxpayers for their benefit. (And one can even extrapolate that to Cuomo's allegedly predatory behavior among the public employees who worked for him.)

Any one of these scandals would be grounds for booting Cuomo out of office. Having all of them unfold at once almost makes one wonder what else Cuomo might be hiding, and even perhaps grudgingly hopes he sticks around juuuuuust long enough to make sure all of his abuses come to light.

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The beat of new charges continues apace this week for Cuomo;

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The latest story is typical, narcissistic Cuomo.

Several staffers are claiming that Cuomo made them work on his book about how he was the savior in response to the coronavirus pandemic, that their work was not voluntary, as Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi asserted last week.

New York law prohibits Cuomo or other state employees from using government resources (like staff) for their own personal gain. Cuomo certainly did get a lot of "personal gain" from his book contract which has been reported to be $4 million. As we reported, Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton, as well as junior staffers, assisted the governor with drafts of "Leadership Lessons" which was published in mid-October.
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Government staffers were reportedly helping with the manuscript by late June and early July a potential violation of state laws that prohibit the use of public resources for personal gain.
A state ethics agency gave Cuomo permission last July to write it but specifically told him not to to use state "personnel" or property "for activities associated with the book," The Buffalo News reported.

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If nothing has happened to him by now he is safe, that news cycle is over unfortunately

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He likely will survive, but will never be President because of this

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You are probably right about that. It certainly has Chappaquiddick legs. And maybe that's what the backrooms want. They control the media, and this attack on Cuomo by them just dropping their default shielding was very concerted. Examples of default shielding: Swallwell still having a post, Pelosi getting away with her stuff, Biden guilty of what impeached Trump for, all shielded. But somewhere along the line it was decided to forsake Cuomo. For some reason.

There is no such thing as voluntary when your boss is the governor and asks for something to be done, even if it is described as "voluntary". Everyone would feel the pressure to do it because it could impact your career. Don't use state resources means don't use state resources. Period