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Answering some of the Qs about Cuomo's campaign, one by one...

First: What about the sexual harassment charges? Aren't they in the past? (Spoiler: No, and especially not since he's shown no interest in change or repentance.) amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-case-a...
I just have such good memories from him during COVID. Remember Cuomo-sexuals? I do remember! But really: Andrew Cuomo is a terrible person. For starters, he’s been credibly accused of sexual harassment by at least 11 women. No, yeah, I know. I’ve heard about that. Not great. You’ve probably heard that in passing, but it’s worth actually looking at what the reports say. There’s a long documented history of young women saying Cuomo groped them, made them feel unsafe, went out of his way to humiliate them. Throughout his time as governor, there’s story after story of him preying on young vulnerable women whose only crime is that they wanted to serve New Yorkers in government. That is horrible. But that stuff is all in the past. Don’t we need a way of people to come back? Shouldn’t there be room for some sort of redemption? Sure. Of course. But any story of redemption has to involve change and repentance. And by all accounts, that is not Andrew Cuomo’s arc. Instead he’s waged an unrelenting scorched earth campaign against his accusers. He’s suing many of them, dragging out long legal disputes, and bankrupting them with legal fees. The City, in their deep dive into Cuomo’s “trench warfare”, called his tactics “in many ways unprecedented, wearing down and financially depleting not only women who have accused Cuomo of harassment and brought their own suits but others who never planned to enter a courtroom at all.” If that’s not bad enough, Cuomo is using the fact that he was employed by the state as governor when these accusations took place to force taxpayers to pay his legal fees! New Yorkers like you and me have already paid over 19 million dollars to his lawyers to defend him in the sexual assault cases alone (in addition to another $40 million in legal fees for other corruption & miscellaneous cases). I want my taxes going to libraries, not his lawyers. Look, I get it. But #metoo was a long time ago. Some people might even say it went a little far, you know? Remember Aziz Ansari? LOL, not really, no. But let’s stay on topic. Reasonable people can disagree about #MeToo, or about what should happen to people accused of sexual harassment in the workplace, but the fact is that the sexual harassment is completely of a piece of how Andrew Cuomo does business. He’s a bully. The stories of him screaming at others, intimidating people who work for him, and holding nasty petty grudges are the stuff of legend. In their exhaustive look at the subject, The New York Times quotes one person who worked with Cuomo as saying, “his primary tool for governing is to create fear.” One lawmaker, whose father died in a nursing home during COVID (a subject we are going to talk more about in a bit), has publicly said Cuomo threatened to “destroy him” if he ever criticized the governor.
June 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM