{"id":56055,"date":"2021-03-14T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56055"},"modified":"2021-03-14T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T18:50:43","slug":"even-the-democrat-party-want-cuomos-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56055","title":{"rendered":"Even the Democrat Party want Cuomo’s hide!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Cuomo is facing an extraordinary rebuke from his own party<\/h1>\n

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The New York governor says the growing calls for his resignation reflect \u201ccancel culture.\u201d<\/h3>\n

By Zeeshan Aleem
\nVOX<\/p>\n

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to speak at a press conference, as he faces questions about allegations of sexual harassment. Seth Wenig\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined a swiftly growing group of Democratic New York lawmakers calling on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign on Friday over allegations of sexual misconduct and distortion of Covid-19 mortality data.<\/p>\n

The rapidly escalating pressure on Cuomo by politicians from his own party has raised questions over whether he\u2019ll be able to govern effectively at a time when he has been tasked with overseeing the state\u2019s management of a complex public health crisis, including the deployment of\u00a0Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines and safely reopening businesses.<\/p>\n

It has also shown that Democrats are willing to unite in opposition against a prominent member of their own party facing accusations of sexual harassment, holding their own members to account in a manner akin to how they have treated Republicans accused of misconduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe commend the brave actions of the individuals who have come forward with serious allegations of abuse and misconduct,\u201d Schumer and Gillibrand said in a joint statement. \u201cDue to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York. Governor Cuomo should resign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on Friday,\u00a016 other members of New York\u2019s 19-person Democratic House delegation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler and progressive leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 called on him to resign.<\/p>\n

Those representatives who didn\u2019t explicitly demand his resignation offered Cuomo little consolation. Reps. Tom Suozzi and Gregory Meeks said that if Cuomo couldn\u2019t govern effectively, he should step down. Meanwhile, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the allegations \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d and backed investigations into his conduct \u2014 but ultimately called for Cuomo himself to reflect on \u201cwhether he can continue to effectively lead the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the very same day,\u00a0New York magazine<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0New York Times<\/a> published investigations which indicated that Cuomo has fostered a poorly managed and abusive work environment at the governor\u2019s mansion. \u201cIn interviews over the past week, more than 35 people who have worked in Mr. Cuomo\u2019s executive chamber described the office as deeply chaotic, unprofessional and toxic, especially for young women,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n

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Currently, New York Attorney General Letitia James is overseeing an independent investigation into the sexual harassment claims against Cuomo, which kicked off when\u00a0former aide Lindsey Boylan<\/a>\u00a0claimed in February that he kissed her on the lips against her will in 2018. Her statement was then followed by\u00a0a number of other allegations<\/a> of misconduct from women, including a former aide who has accused him of groping her at his private residence and another aide who said he effectively propositioned her in the manner in which he inquired about her sex life.<\/p>\n

This week the New York State Assembly also\u00a0opened an impeachment inquiry<\/a>\u00a0into Cuomo\u2019s behavior over the sexual misconduct claims and evidence that he\u00a0appeared to hide the true death toll<\/a>\u00a0of nursing home residents in the state caused by Covid-19. On Thursday over 50 Democrats of the New York state Senate and Assembly said that Cuomo has \u201clost the confidence of the public<\/a>\u201d and called for him to step down.<\/p>\n

But Cuomo resisted the growing calls for his resignation on Friday, and described efforts to force him from office as \u201ccancel culture.\u201d He denied harassment and abuse and remained resolute about his intention to stay in office. \u201cI did not do what has been alleged, period,\u201d he said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am confident that when New Yorkers know the facts from the review, I am confident in the decision based on the facts,\u201d he said. \u201cBut wait for the facts. An opinion without facts is irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s political fortunes have changed dramatically since the earlier stages of the pandemic, when he projected calm confidence to the public in press conferences that won him praise among Democrats and\u00a0even an Emmy<\/a>. Now\u00a0buzz about a 2024 presidential run<\/a>\u00a0has been replaced by questions of whether he\u2019ll survive his current term in office.<\/p>\n

The Cuomo allegations have tested Democrats\u2019 commitment to addressing sexual harassment<\/h3>\n

As Vox\u2019s Anna North\u00a0has noted<\/a>, Democrats have, at times, appeared more hesitant to act on allegations of misconduct against members of their own party than they were against Republicans accused of sexual abuse like former President Donald Trump or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh:<\/p>\n

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When multiple women came forward in 2017 to report unwanted touching or kissing by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), several Democratic senators, including Gillibrand and then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA),\u00a0called on him to resign<\/a>. But Gillibrand, in particular, later faced political blowback for the decision, with\u00a0donors pulling back from her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2020, when\u00a0Tara Reade came forward to report<\/a>\u00a0that Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her in 1993, Democrats \u2014\u00a0including Gillibrand<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 largely defended him (a task made easier, perhaps, by the fact that\u00a0Reade faced questions<\/a>\u00a0about her changing accounts of Biden\u2019s actions as well as her previous writings on Russia).<\/p>\n

Now Biden is president, Democrats control Congress, and Trump is no longer in the White House or on Twitter to remind Americans of the allegations against him. And what Democrats do about Cuomo will be, to some degree, a test of how seriously they take sexual harassment allegations in an era when they\u2019re in power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Increasingly, New York Democrats are signaling that they will not tolerate the kinds of allegations Cuomo faces.<\/p>\n

There are also other factors contributing to Democrats\u2019 decision to push for Cuomo\u2019s resignation. Before multiple claims of sexual misconduct surfaced, the scandal over Cuomo\u2019s suppression of Covid-19 death data seriously undermined his reputation as an effective and trustworthy policymaker on his signature issue of the last year.<\/p>\n

And crucially, Cuomo\u2019s slide has been accelerated by his acrimonious relationships with New York Democrats well before any scandal emerged. For example,\u00a0New York Assembly member Ron Kim<\/a>\u00a0said that after he criticized Cuomo\u2019s handling of the nursing home fatality data, he received a phone call from Cuomo during which the governor spent \u201cten minutes threatening my career and ordering me to issue a statement that would be used to cover for the state secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the New Republic\u2019s Clio Chang and Alex Shephard explain, many Democrats have long been fed up with Cuomo\u2019s\u00a0adversarial relationship with his own party<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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While the State Assembly has largely remained more loyal than the Senate, which is more or less in open rebellion, Cuomo has spent a decade in office bullying, cajoling, and humiliating politicians sitting in these bodies. Part of what we\u2019re seeing now is payback. Thanks in part to Cuomo\u2019s decision to\u00a0single-handedly prevent<\/a>\u00a0a Democratic majority from taking hold in the Senate for several years, there is an extraordinary amount of bad blood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whether Cuomo will resign is an open question. But it\u2019s clear that his reputation and political capital were more fragile than commonly believed, and they\u2019ve taken an enormous and irreversible hit.<\/p>\n

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