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DANGER OF THE LAWLESS LAWYER CLASS - THE CASE AGAINST CORRUPT ANDREW CUOMO, ONE MORE SHITBAG LAWYER
Andrew Cuomo’s Top Aide Resigns as Governor Faces Possible Impeachment
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) lost his most senior aide late Sunday night when Melissa DeRosa resigned less than a week after the release of a report that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve the people of New York for the past 10 years. New Yorkers’ resilience, strength, and optimism through the most difficult times has inspired me every day,” secretary to the governor DeRosa said in a statement sent to news organizations.
“Personally, the past 2 years have been emotionally and mentally trying. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented and committed colleagues on behalf of our state,” she said in the message, with no specific reason offered for her resignation.
The exit of the 38-year-old, who held the highest-ranking appointed position in the state, comes as Cuomo fights for his political life in defiance of criminal investigations and widespread calls for his impeachment.
Melissa DeRosa, Secretary to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, prepares to leave after the governor’s daily briefing May 29, 2020 at Iona College in New Rochelle. (Tania Savayan/The Journal News via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
Scores of Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have urged him to leave office or face an impeachment battle, as Breitbart News reported.
About two-thirds of state Assembly members have already said they favor an impeachment trial if he refuses to resign. Nearly all 63 members of the state Senate have called for Cuomo to step down or be removed.
More bleak news for the governor is expected Monday when an Assembly committee meets to discuss possible impeachment proceedings and “CBS This Morning” is scheduled to broadcast the first TV interview from an executive assistant who accused Cuomo of groping her breast.
Andrew Cuomo has denied all allegations, saying last week he “never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances.”
DeRosa, who often stepped forward to defend Cuomo when he faced public criticism, joined the administration in 2013.
She got the title “secretary to the governor” in 2017, and was probably the most recognizable face in the administration after Cuomo.
DeRosa is the daughter-in-law of Audrey Strauss, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, as the New York Postreported.
She appeared by Cuomo’s side in most of his news briefings and often fielded policy questions from reporters when the governor lacked the details to answer.
New York’s political establishment was shamefully silent about the chronic corruption, misuse of state resources, and abusive behavior in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office for years until the state’s attorney general on August 3 released a detailed report cataloging Cuomo’s alleged harassment and fondling of multiple female state employees.
Now forced to condemn the governor’s reprehensible treatment of women, his erstwhile allies are reluctantly headed towards impeachment proceedings, which could expose their backroom deals, payoffs, and indifference to Albany’s rancid culture. Cuomo’s removal from office could also result in a sudden shift of power towards the most radical elements in New York’s legislature, nearly all of whom represent New York City.
These developments are the direct result the dereliction of responsibility by Cuomo’s enablers, both Democrats and Republicans, who coddled the governor, gave him tens of millions of dollars in donations, and ignored the damning evidence of the Moreland Commission, the Buffalo Billion, Pay to Play, convictions of high-level staff, StartUpNY, 15,000 unnecessary nursing home COVID deaths and a $5.1 million book deal describing the supposedly great job he did with COVID. When Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino challenged Cuomo in 2014, he called Cuomo’s Albany a “cesspool of corruption.” He was prescient.
The fact that New York’s political class would ignore years of prosecutable corruption and suddenly be hypercritically judgmental about 11 examples of alleged groping, speaks to the hypocrisy of New York’s politicians.
Some prime examples.
Carl Heastie, Silver’s successor as Assembly Speaker, who will manage the impeachment process, also did a 180. In March, when the rumored accusations were first made public, he was silent. Today he says Cuomo “can no longer remain in office.”
Jay Jacobs, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee and longtime Cuomo ally, was silent in March and now says Cuomo should step down.
George Latimer, Democrat Westchester County Executive, was supportive but now says he should resign. Ditto Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.
Virtually overnight, political survival switched on devout loyalty to Cuomo to demanding his political excommunication. It’s happened before, with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced Client No. #9 of an escort service, and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now in a federal medical prison facility.
None of this is surprising. New York’s political establishment, like that in Washington, has long imposed standards of behavior and conduct on its citizens and businesses that the politicians brazenly flout. In a particularly delicious example of schadenfreude, at the same time that Cuomo was allegedly engaged in groping his female staff in 2019, he signed new Workplace Harassment legislation, making it easier for employees to file complaints, lowering the legal hurdles for harassment, and extending the statute of limitations from one to three years.
“There has been an ongoing, persistent culture of sexual harassment, assault and discrimination in the workplace, and now is the time to act,” said Governor Cuomo in the 2019 press release.
“We must continue to change our culture and ensure women are protected from sexual assault and harassment,” stated Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who stands to succeed Governor Cuomo, in the same press release. She, too, was silent in March but tweeted recently that “no one is above the law. Under the New York Constitution, the Assembly will now determine the next steps.”
The political pundits are focused on what Carl Heastie does with impeachment. But whether Cuomo resigns, gets impeached, or is primaried by the ambitious attorney general is not the point. The abrupt political upheaval in New York is due to the excesses of one-party rule and the inevitable corruption that results when there are no political braking mechanisms.
Americans around the country should have their eyes on New York, where ithe governor has fallen from a being a potential presidential contender to alleged sex offender in a year. New York’s voters will face a choice in November 2022 of allowing the state to move further to the left, with higher taxes, more crime, and continued corruption, or electing a governor who is committed to and capable of cleaning out the cesspool. Voters can start earlier, in 2021’s local and county executive elections to clear out Cuomo’s many enablers.
Linda R. Killian is a retired financial analyst and a current local New York Republican Chairman.
Somebody needs to check the water lines going into the New York governor’s mansion in Albany. Those old, lead pipes are apparently leaching Viagra, testosterone and horny goat weed into the drinking supply.
Two of the last three occupants of the mansion have undone themselves with their unchecked libidos.
Just when you thought nobody could be creepier than disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer — aka Client No. 9 — along comes Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At least Mr. Spitzer had the decency to pay a fair wage for some strange.
The only New York governor in 15 years not to wreck himself with a wandering eye was David Paterson — and it should be noted that he was legally blind.
In the Super Creep department, it was pretty impossible to out-creep Client No. 9.
Famously, Mr. Spitzer was known for refusing to remove his dress socks during his Olympic bedroom trysts — all the while also refusing to sock up other appendages. (Please forgive the graphic nature of all this, but when elected officials wallow in the sewer, we poor scribes are cursed to follow them. As we like to say: Just the facts, ma’am.)
Mr. Cuomo wasn’t even a paying client, yet he has leered, groped and verbally molested his way through 2½ terms as New York’s governor. Though his lecherous dirt-baggery has apparently been on full display for his entire time in Albany, for some reason it has only become public recently.
It seems to have all begun a little over a year ago when Mr. Cuomo was busy killing thousands of elderly New Yorkers by dumping highly infectious COVID-19 patients into nursing homes around the state. The media was so enthralled with Mr. Cuomo and his murderous rampage that they anointed themselves “Cuomosexuals” — swooning at his every press conference.
Well, that’s a problem.
It is like if your parents decided to name you “Anthony Weiner.” What else are you going to think about for the rest of your life?
If your every waking moment is the punch line of a sex joke, then obviously you have no hope but to become some kind of sex-addicted predator on the Internet. Now, I am not a qualified sexologist or a certified therapist, but I am pretty sure if you start reading about all the “Cuomosexuals” in the media drooling over you every day, you are probably going to become some kind of sex creep.
And you are going to start thinking you are far more desirous than you actually are. The next thing you know, you are pestering the staff, groping your state police security detail, and ogling the lithe Emmy Award statuette somebody gave you for being such an inspiration to all those “Cuomosexuals” out there.
“Isn’t she buxom!” Mr. Cuomo panted to staffers during one meeting — as the pandemic raged outside.
Worst of all is Mr. Cuomo’s defense: I am just an enthusiastic toucher, he claims. I am not any creepier than sniffer-in-chief Joe Biden!
The governor’s legal team unleashed a sleazy stream of lurid photographs showing Mr. Cuomo groping, nuzzling, smooching, sniffing and licking innocent citizens all over the state. Oh, and Al Gore.
In the case of Al Gore, Mr. Cuomo appears to be giving him a full baby zerbert to the side of the face. Mr. Gore seems to be smiling mildly — not the usual zerbert reaction you get from chubby babies — but then again Mr. Gore has pretty high standards when it comes to molesting women.
Mr. Cuomo’s other defense, believe it or not, is actually worse.
“I am not part of the political club,” claimed the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
“I was not elected by the politicians,” he said. “I was elected by the people.”
In other words, this is all your fault. He is just being a man of the people, groping voters and giving you horny slobs everything that you want — even if you are too dumb to ask for it.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at the Washington Times.
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