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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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Yep. If you are a Democrat, just wait it out. It will go away. Same standard obviously doesn't apply to Republicans.

There is an investigation by the state AG and also the legislature waiting to decide to take action. No, I am not positive/optimistic they will do a darn thing, but his saga is not over on any of it, imho.

Theoretically of course he broke federal laws too but we all know the SDNY/FBI won't do a damn thing.

Ok, minor update, but most of New York at least doesn't believe him. He still might not only not-resign, but win a 4th term because the propaganda press/NY voters are morons of course.

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It's a significant fall from "America's shadow president" to "liar, liar, pants on fire," but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to have accomplished the feat. All through the various scandals that have surrounded the Governor's tenure for years, from the corruption in the "Buffalo Billion" funds and the nursing home debacle to the growing list of sexual assault accusers, Cuomo has seemed like the Teflon Don. His approval ratings with New Yorkers remained stubbornly above water despite coming under fire from both the Democrat-friendly media and leaders in his own party.

But finally, the continued grind of endless bad news cycles appears to have taken its toll. The latest polling from Siena College reveals that a significant plurality of the state's residents believe that the Governor is guilty of sexual harassment while less than a quarter are still buying his denials. Making matters worse, a majority don't think he should be elected to another term next year. But as we'll discuss in a moment, this somehow still may not be the final nail in the coffin of Cuomo's political career. (NY Post)

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A growing number of New Yorkers believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed sexual harassment, and his popularity has plummeted with a strong majority now saying they prefer someone else for governor instead of a Cuomo fourth term.

Forty four percent of registered voters compared to 22 percent said the third term Democrat has committed sexual harassment, a new poll released Monday by Siena College found, while 34 percent responded that they either didn't know or had no opinion on the topic.

That includes 39 percent of registered Democrats who say they believe Cuomo is guilty of sexual harassment showing that he is hemorrhaging support within his Democratic base, compared to 30 percent who responded that he has not engaged in misconduct.

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There's no denying that those numbers are bad and no politician would want to see them. They also reflect a trend in the wrong direction and if they don't start turning around, Cuomo's viability as an elected official may yet reach the stage of being completely untenable. But as I suggested above, a deeper look into Siena's figures indicates that he hasn't reached the point of no return quite yet.

Amazingly, 51% of respondents still don't believe that the Governor should resign. That's a slim number, but it's enough of a liferaft to keep Cuomo in the governor's mansion for now. Even more shockingly, even if they believe he may have sexually harassed some of the women, 53% said they are satisfied with the way he handled the allegations and with the "apology" that he issued. (Spoiler alert: he never really apologized for anything other than making people "uncomfortable" because they "misunderstood" him.)

The big, damning number was the 57% who said they would prefer to vote for someone else next year rather than seeing Cuomo elected to a fourth term. But peeking under the covers of that question, among Democrats, 46% said that they would vote to reelect Cuomo while 43% said they would support another candidate. Since New York's statewide elections are non-competitive and the Democratic primary is essentially the general election, that means that Cuomo could still become the candidate next summer and go on to win the general election.

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Criminal investigation approved;

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For years now, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been a huge power in the state. No one wanted to cross him so a lot of the stories we are hearing about now didn't reach the light of day. But this year, all of Cuomo's scandals seem to have been let out of the box, from the nursing home scandal to sexual harassment/assault allegations.

Now, according to the New York Times, New York Attorney General Letitia James was just authorized by the Comptroller of the state to begin a potential criminal investigation into Cuomo for the possible use of state resources in relation to his most recent book. That was the book about how he was such a hero over the pandemic. It is believed that he was offered $4 million for the book.

The problem? Among others, that he used staffers to work on his book for him. As we reported, several staffers dropped a dime on Cuomo saying they were made to work on the book, which violates state law which prohibits the use of public resources for personal gain.

Cuomo has argued that any work done was "voluntary" but even if that were true (and the reports suggest it isn't), it wouldn't change the fact that he used staff.

The AG was asked to look into "any indictable offense or offenses" involving, but not limited to, "the drafting, editing, sale and promotion of the governor's book and any related financial or business transactions."

The AG is already looking into the multiple allegations of sexual harassment against Cuomo.

Meanwhile, because Cuomo hasn't yet resigned, he's also facing an impeachment inquiry where they've said they've already received more than 100 tips related to Cuomo.

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Still shockingly no cuomosexuals on f16 here to defend him. Odd.

And the beat goes on. State AG investigation widens;

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ALBANY, N.Y.The state attorney general's office has expanded its investigation of sexual-harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo to look at whether one of his top advisers linked access to Covid-19 vaccines to support for the governor, according to people familiar with the matter.

Investigators have interviewed at least three Democratic county executives who said they were surprised to receive calls from Larry Schwartz, a volunteer adviser who oversaw vaccine distribution for the state, asking whether they would be calling for Mr. Cuomo's resignation, the people said.

Mr. Schwartz contacted more than a half-dozen executives in early March, executives said, as Mr. Cuomo faced mounting calls for his resignation from members of his own political party and was personally contacting state lawmakers to shore up support.
The executives said that at the time of Mr. Schwartz's calls they were typically speaking with him about the allocation of vaccine supplies, not politics.

One county executive filed a complaint about the call from Mr. Schwartz with the attorney general's office in March, according to the people familiar with the matter.
"Right at the time that every county was working, and desperately needed more vaccines, to receive a call from the person who was responsible for allocating those doses gauging political loyalty to the governor was an obvious conflict, and at best ethically gray," said one county executive who received a call from Mr. Schwartz.
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Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he spoke with investigators on March 30 about the call he received from Mr. Schwartz. Mr. Poloncarz, a Democrat, said he didn't feel Mr. Schwartz was trying to pressure him to stand by the governor; Mr. Poloncarz hasn't called for Mr. Cuomo's resignation.

The investigators for Ms. James' office have interviewed at least six of Mr. Cuomo's sexual-harassment accusers, according to the women and their lawyers. They have also issued dozens of subpoenas to current and former officials in the Cuomo administration, according to people familiar with the matter.

In late April, the investigators interviewed Alphonso David, who worked as Mr. Cuomo's counsel until 2019, about the office culture, as well as about Lindsey Boylan, a person familiar with the matter said. Ms. Boylan said Mr. Cuomo sexually harassed her when she worked as a state economic-development adviser from 2015 to 2018. The governor has said Ms. Boylan's statements aren't true.

Mr. David, who is now the president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy organization, didn't return requests for comment.

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From a twitter WSJ link.

NEWS: The New York state attorney general’s office has expanded its investigation of sexual-harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to look at whether one of his top advisers linked access to Covid-19 vaccines to support for the governor.https://t.co/qCjc305dQN

— Jimmy Vielkind (@JimmyVielkind) May 8, 2021

Ironic that one of the accusers/possible witnesses, Mr. David, works for an LGBT advocacy group, as Cuomo supposedly came up with the slogan for his dad's campaign "Vote for Cuomo not the homo."

Wow, trading access to the vaccine for political support. Dems are Satan's angels.

He offed a bunch of old libs, assaulted a bunch of female libs, and denied access to the vaccine to a bunch of libs, in all probability. If they don't care, and they don't, I don't either.

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Wow, trading access to the vaccine for political support. Dems are Satan's angels.

He offed a bunch of old libs, assaulted a bunch of female libs, and denied access to the vaccine to a bunch of libs, in all probability. If they don't care, and they don't, I don't either.

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It seems the fact that he sentenced >40,000 elderly nursing home residents to death is a non issue to his other corrupt behavior. New York politics is really messed up.

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Cassius said:

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Wow, trading access to the vaccine for political support. Dems are Satan's angels.

He offed a bunch of old libs, assaulted a bunch of female libs, and denied access to the vaccine to a bunch of libs, in all probability. If they don't care, and they don't, I don't either.

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It seems the fact that he sentenced >40,000 elderly nursing home residents to death is a non issue to his other corrupt behavior. New York politics is really messed up.

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AND he covered it up...

Libs are pure evil. Power is all they care about.

Is there a guidebook or rule of thumb about when you can proposition a sexual assault survivor, or are they permanently off limits and never available for sex again?

Asking for a friend.


It is hilarious that they just pick and choose who to execute and when, just overlook everything and then BAM, he squashed an ant!

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Wow, trading access to the vaccine for political support. Dems are Satan's angels.

He offed a bunch of old libs, assaulted a bunch of female libs, and denied access to the vaccine to a bunch of libs, in all probability. If they don't care, and they don't, I don't either.

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It seems the fact that he sentenced >40,000 elderly nursing home residents to death is a non issue to his other corrupt behavior. New York politics is really messed up.

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Note that his reason for doing so was that a major donor, the NY Hospital association, wrote the rule sending the sick olds into nursing homes. It's not nearly as scandalous as De Santis using Publix as a vaccine distribution partner, obviously.

But wait, there's even more (recent) cronyism/corruption just between Cuomo and GNYHA:

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Look closely at a questionable Empire State health-care policy, and you're liable to find the fingerprints of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the hospital and health-system trade group that is one of the most influential forces in New York politics.

A case in point is the state Health Department's directive, issued on March 25, that compelled nursing homes to accept patients who had tested positive for coronavirus. It turns out, as the Journal reported, that this ill-conceived policy was the brainchild of the nonprofit hospital association, which pitched it to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office shortly before it went into effect. In the name of easing a crisis for the association's members, the Cuomo administration contributed to a disaster for vulnerable nursing-home residents, who died by the thousands.

This fatal misstep grew out of a remarkably tight political alliance between the governor and the trade group that has become increasingly bad for the state's health. Its recent history began before Mr. Cuomo's last election when, in March 2018, he browbeat the state's Catholic bishops into giving up $2 billion in proceeds from the sale of a church-affiliated nonprofit health plan. The money went into a "Health Care Transformation Fund" to be spent at the governor's discretion in an election year.

That summer the hospital group poured more than $1 million into Mr. Cuomo's re-election campaign, which was a lot even for one of Albany's deepest pockets. Much of the funding flowed through a loophole that would keep it secret until after his inauguration. Just before Election Day, with no advance notice, Mr. Cuomo dipped into his health-care slush fund to finance an increase in the fees paid to hospitals and nursing homes for taking care of Medicaid patients, a top lobbying priority of the hospital association.

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Those deliberations were happening when the pandemic hit. Soon, the hospital association was pushing for help in discharging patients to nursing homes, and the Health Department quickly obliged the governor's major donors and go-to health-care mavens.

The hospital association also successfully lobbied for a last-minute budget provision to limit sharply the ability of coronavirus victims to file malpractice suits against hospitals, nursing homes and other providersrelieving the industry of a potential hit to its finances. There's a case to be made for liability protections in a crisis, but sending patients to nursing homes was clearly a wrong move. It wasn't the sole cause of Covid-19's spread in New York nursing homes, but it made a bad situation worseas Mr. Cuomo and his aides would have understood had they sought a broader range of advice.

In August, the Greater New York Hospital Association repaid Mr. Cuomo's favors by featuring him in TV ads touting the state's success in controlling the pandemic and assuring the worried public that hospitals are safe to use again. New Yorkers can only wonder what their governor will do for them next.

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I couldn't come up with a shadier, more corrupt symbol of politics in America, than Andrew Cuomo. Sure, Pelosi, Biden, John McCain, Kerry, and many others in congress are/have been standard bearers, but he really is the epitome of the evil nature of people in our politics.

Eso si, Que es said:

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Is there a guidebook or rule of thumb about when you can proposition a sexual assault survivor, or are they permanently off limits and never available for sex again?

Asking for a friend.


It is hilarious that they just pick and choose who to execute and when, just overlook everything and then BAM, he squashed an ant!

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I think in general if you are a 60+ year old white male governor with nipple rings and they are a young (20-30 something) staffer who works for you, it is frowned upon, but if you are in fact a Democrat I am not sure it matters, proceed with your pickup line of choice.

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Eso si, Que es said:

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Is there a guidebook or rule of thumb about when you can proposition a sexual assault survivor, or are they permanently off limits and never available for sex again?

Asking for a friend.


It is hilarious that they just pick and choose who to execute and when, just overlook everything and then BAM, he squashed an ant!

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I think in general if you are a 60+ year old white male governor with nipple rings and they are a young (20-30 something) staffer who works for you, it is frowned upon, but if you are in fact a Democrat I am not sure it matters, proceed with your pickup line of choice.

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#MyBodyMyChoice
#YouCantChooseWhoYouLove

I am pretty sure Dems are not the party who care who is f'ing who. Of course, being hypocrites is what they do best, but I have never heard them objecting to They shouldn't be f'ing Them for any reason.

Of course, if they want to discriminate then banging chicks under 5' tall is as arbitrary of a place to start as any.

LOL, I see what you did there.

FBI (LOL) hot on his trail also;

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Federal investigators interviewed the chairman of the state Senate Health Committee as part of its probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic including his $5.1 million book deal, The Post has learned.

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-The Bronx) said Tuesday that he was summoned to the FBI's Brooklyn headquarters earlier this month and interviewed for nearly three hours by agents and prosecutors from the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office.

"We talked about a little bit of everything mostly the governor's interaction with the legislature throughout the pandemic," Rivera told The Post.

The investigators also asked Rivera for records to corroborate what he told them, he said.

Many questions involved the Cuomo administration's cover-up of the total nursing home death toll from COVID-19, Rivera said.

In February, The Post exclusively revealed that top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa privately acknowledged during a video conference with Democratic state lawmakers that administration officials stonewalled them due to a potential investigation by the Justice Department.

That report sparked the local probe, the New York Law Journal has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Investigators also asked about Cuomo's book deal for his pandemic memoir, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic," but it was not a major focus, Rivera said.

The book quickly became a best-seller but tanked amid a string of sexual allegations against him earlier this year, after which Crown stopped promoting it, citing the federal nursing-home probe.

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https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/fbi-interviews-ny-pol-on-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal-book-deal/

Impeachment investigation is a sham; Andrew C McCarthy says it will go for about a year, and the law firm doing it will do 3 weeks of work, and nothing will happen to him.

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Cuomo, however, is a powerful Democrat scion of a powerful Democratic family who was married, for a time, into an iconic Democratic family. He has been governor for a decade, has influential allies in the national party and the state legislature, and has appointed many judges and other officials who would have a say in any investigation leading to potential impeachment.

Nearly as significantly and here's where the essentially one-party politics of the Empire State comes in though Cuomo is a preening old-school progressive, he is the last line of defense against the ascendant Bolshevik Left that is destroying New York City. Most of the rest of the state is not as insane as the Gotham Dems. Cuomo is enough of a thin-skinned bully that most New York Democrats would privately tell you he's a jerk, but the brute fact is that they fear even more what would come after him if he were removed. Cuomo and his party allies are well aware of this. Thanks to the hard Left, he stands a far better chance of being reelected than impeached.

Wholly apart from his appalling conduct with respect to nursing homes, Cuomo is under investigation on several sexual-harassment complaints. The big story in New York this week is that the special prosecutors working under Attorney General Letitia James's supervision just issued subpoenas to the complainants. The general reaction to this revelation was that the probe must be getting serious. But the more informed (and thus jaded) reaction would be: They're just getting around to that now? The investigation has been going on for over two months. Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that the sexual-harassment probe will continue through the summer, and probably longer.

Well, you say to yourself, the legislature needn't dawdle over a sexual-harassment investigation when the nursing-home malfeasance is ripe, right? After all, the sexual-harassment allegations may, for all the big wind, yield no rain. Essentially, Cuomo is accused of making women uncomfortable of creating a hostile work environment for staffers by his boorishness. These are not, in the main, sexual-assault allegations. There are some claims of unwanted kissing and touching, but only one allegation of conduct groping an unidentified state employee under her blouse that may arguably cross the line into criminal assault under state law. That latter instance, as is typical in these cases, appears to be a "he said, she said" situation that would be difficult, to say the least, to prove in court.

As is his wont, Cuomo has proved to be haughtily inept in public statements about the germane facts and law (including harassment-law provisions that he himself championed). That, however, is a side issue; the main thing is that the harassment probe is proceeding at a snail's pace.

That does not matter, though, to Cuomo's allies in the State Assembly. With studied indignation, they insisted that they would leave no stone unturned in their impeachment investigation: the nursing homes, the book deal, the favorable treatment for family and friends, the sexual harassment, even a kerfuffle over bridge safety. Democrats pledged to get to the bottom of every Cuomo scandal (at least the current ones the corruption scandal from a few years back is apparently water under the unsafe bridge).

As I explained when all this theater was rolled out, the Democrat vow to conduct a comprehensive probe was not a statement of determination; it was a pose. Democrats do not want to investigate Cuomo; they want to say they are investigating him. They are claiming to do a comprehensive probe because the more extensive it is, the longer it will take. As torpor sets in, any idea of removing Cuomo will pass. State Democrats have no intention of impeaching the governor, just of looking like they're reacting in a serious way to convincing reports of impeachable conduct.

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I don't understand liberals. Cuomo gets a pass for sentencing 20k elderly people to death but potentially gets run out of office for asking a couple broads for sex?

I think the odds of impeachment for the sexual harassment stuff are pretty low. Cuomo stands as a patriarch in a uniparty setting in NY where he is the defender vs. the insanity that is enveloping NYC itself (very far left/marxist factions).

In short, I don't think the CCP-Dem party in NY can afford to toss him aside right now. If he does win his next primary, the revenge tour would make Nixon blush, and he's not fully defenestrated yet. He's basically the Ghadafi/Noriega of NY at this point; strong man with no better alternative.

Well well well....

The report says the executive chamber was “rife with fear and intimidation” and “a hostile work environment.”

A source tells us all of the women who came forward with accusations were found to be credible, including Charlotte Bennett, who called Cuomo a “textbook abuser.”

— Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) August 3, 2021

Schumer, DeBlasio, Gillibrand demand Cuomo resignation;

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The addition of de Blasio to these calls was a gimme. Cuomo and de Blasio have been feuding for years, more especially during the pandemic. De Blasio might not have much of a political future after his disastrous term as mayor, but at least he has the consolation of having gotten the best of Cuomo in the end.

The state's Democratic legislators, both in Albany and Washington, concur with the three:

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In a joint statement Tuesday, Reps. Tom Suozzi, Hakeem Jeffries and Gregory Meeks three Democratic New York lawmakers who had previously not called on Cuomo to resign reversed course.

"The office of Attorney General Tish James conducted a complete, thorough and professional investigation of the disturbing allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo. The investigation has found that the Governor engaged in abusive behavior toward women, including subordinates, created a hostile work environment and violated state and federal law," the congressmen stated.

"We commend the brave women who came forward and spoke truth to power. The time has come for Governor Andrew Cuomo to do the right thing for the people of New York State and resign."
New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, similarly for Cuomo to be out in a statement Tuesday.

"This report highlights unacceptable behavior by Governor Cuomo and his administration. As I said, when these disturbing allegations first came to light, the Governor must resign for the good of the state," Stewart-Cousins said. "Now that the investigation is complete and the allegations have been substantiated, it should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as Governor."
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, also a Democrat, said in a separate statement that the governor "must step aside or be removed."

"These damning findings from Attorney General James, who has done a great job, show quite clearly that the governor must resign and if he will not, that he should be impeached," Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, added. "Not only has Gov. Cuomo broken the law by committing disturbing and dehumanizing acts against women, he has engaged in retaliation against his accusers, and also abused his power as an employer, boss, and the leader of New York and most powerful person in this state."

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All of Cuomo's allies are either abandoning ship or keeping a mighty low profile this afternoon. It's going to be tough for someone to step up to defend Cuomo after an official investigation and claim that the women and the investigators are lying. Cuomo can gripe all he wants about "bias" in the probe, but he got a lot more due process than Al Franken got, and for much more egregious conduct.

Will Cuomo resign? I'd be stunned if he did. Cuomo has far too high regard for himself and far too much sense of entitlement to power to just step away. He'll take the Trump strategy of simply refusing to engage on controversy and dare the legislature to impeach and remove him. And even with all of these calls for Cuomo to beat feet out of Albany, it's anyone's guess whether Democratic legislators will take this seriously enough to force an impeachment-and-removal process.

Keep an eye out for any statements that claim that the legislature still needs to do a comprehensive probe of all Cuomo's scandals before they can act. They've used that excuse to stall on action for months. If they stick to it, Democrats in Albany will hope that the Trump strategy works for them, too.

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Concerned moderates everywhere are concerned, I'm sure.

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Keep an eye out for any statements that claim that the legislature still needs to do a comprehensive probe of all Cuomo's scandals before they can act. They've used that excuse to stall on action for months. If they stick to it, Democrats in Albany will hope that the Trump strategy works for them, too.

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The "Trump strategy" doesn't apply here, unless these allegations are completely fabricated with no corroborating evidence.

Xiden calls on Cuomo to resign;

Biden calls on Governor Cuomo to resign pic.twitter.com/9JjJAshEI6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 3, 2021

(Note, I realize there's some disparaging crap above about Trump, which is off topic for this thread.)

LOL.....they are doing the right thing....

Odd that none of our "liberals" have made an appearance on this thread. I mean, we have real leftist super-hero's at stake here;

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"Maybe we enlist you, I'll do it with you we'll do an ad telling New Yorkers it's safe to take the vaccine, to put us together," Cuomo said to Fauci on a videoconference on Monday. "We're like the modern-day De Niro and Pacino. You can be whichever one you want."

Fauci, the U.S. government's foremost expert on infectious diseases and a native New Yorker, laughed as he heard Cuomo's suggestion.

"You can be the De Niro or Pacino. Fauci and Cuomo," the governor said. "Who do you want to be: De Niro or Pacino?"

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Cuomosexuals right?

Ruh Ro Fredo.

The bombshell Cuomo report revealed that CNN's Chris Cuomo joined conference calls with his brother's top aides as charges of harassment mounted. https://t.co/sAcqqewApo

— Newsmax (@newsmax) August 4, 2021

He says he is staying, for now, and impeachment will take 'a few weeks' to get going in the state legislature. His slideshow of kisses is just another pathetic chapter in his pathetic history;

His family: https://t.co/nMkFoa6HDG

— J (@1000Steps) August 3, 2021

I think even Biden is pressing for his resignation at this point.

Saw something on CNN I actually agreed with. It compared him to Don Draper.

Is there anything more 2021 than the media caring more about a governor grabbing females asses than that same governor killing a bunch of elderly then covering it up?

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Saw something on CNN I actually agreed with. It compared him to Don Draper.

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They compared Cuomo to Draper? Not even a close comparison IMO.

Drapers conquests were all very willing participants. And yes it highlighted a very different time in history but I don't agree with this at all.

Don Draper does not have nipple rings and hot girls loved him.

I would donate $1000 to see Cuomo leverage the Biden Tara Reade encounter to get out of a bind. Maybe read her detailed account like his own accusers to show how petty his actions were in comparison.

Whelp, it's getting closer.

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/ny-assembly-majority-ready-impeach-gov-cuomo-if-he-refuses-resign

He'll resign if the votes are there, period.

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If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo does not resign, following the state attorney general's report on findings regarding sexual harassment claims against him, then a majority of state Assembly members are prepared to begin impeachment proceedings.

Of the 150 members, 83 have either publicly announced or told the Associated Pressthat they are in favor of starting the impeachment process if Cuomo refuses to leave office. At least 40 of those members are Democrats. Only a simple majority of 76 is required to begin an impeachment trial, the wire service reported.

President Biden has already called for Cuomo to resign, following the release of the New York state attorney general's report finding that the governor sexually harassed multiple former and current female employees in violation of state and federal law.

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Update; his top aide (also an enforcer) has resigned;

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The ongoing soap opera of Andrew Cuomo's reign as governor of New York has officially reached the stage of rats fleeing a sinking ship. While his own party members have been increasingly vocal in distancing themselves from the Governor, last night we saw what is probably the clearest sign of the end times.

Melissa DeRosa, the top aide to the Governor and the person widely regarded as being the second most powerful person in New York politics, resigned from her position. DeRosa, 37, has been with the Cuomo administration in various roles starting from nearly the first days in 2013. She's been working in politics since taking a position as an intern for the state's largest labor organization at the age of 16. But now she's obviously seen the writing on the wall and isn't going to go down with the ship.

In the early days of the pandemic, the Grey Lady wrote a glowing tribute to DeRosa, describing her as one of the most formidable presences in Empire State politics. She was also known for being loyal to Cuomo to a fault, acting as the muscle in the administration when someone needed to be brought into line. But now she's been identified as one of the people who organized a smear campaign against some of Cuomo's accusers. This might spell the end of what looked to be a political career that would eventually lead her to higher office.

As for Cuomo himself, it's difficult to see what's keeping him from following DeRosa out the door. He spent most of this weekend with someone who the NY Post described as "possibly his only friend left in Albany." That would be his dog Captain, a three-year-old Siberian-shepherd-Malamute mix. Cuomo had already split with his long-time girlfriend last year.

The legislature in Albany has already reached the stage of deciding when not if they're going to impeach him if he doesn't step down voluntarily. A head-count of the legislators done by the largest newspaper in Albany last week showed that a very solid majority (including most of the Democrats) are prepared to vote to give him the boot. Most of them would far prefer that he save them the trouble (and even more scandal and bad headlines) by simply seeing himself to the door.

The calls for Cuomo's resignation have been coming from both sides of the aisle. Both Democratic Senators from New York have said it. Most of the members of the state's congressional delegation have done the same, as has New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. But the demands for Cuomo's departure have long since expanded beyond New York State. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both called on him to resign.

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I don't think he makes it through August, but we will see, guess he wasn't invited to the Obama birthday bash. I do agree that the media owes us all an apology. Every single major MSM outlet.

And, he's gone. Just two weeks. Lol.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a barrage of sexual harassment allegationshttps://t.co/b9bl4cAG83

— The National Desk (@TND) August 10, 2021