Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been spinning the nursing home scandal pretty much since it first came out last year. He’s done the same thing with the allegations from women, now six women, accusing him of sexual harassment and/or touching them inappropriately.
Interestingly, in regard to the women, a letter came out from Democratic lawmakers telling people to wait for the New York Attorney General’s investigation of Cuomo and not to call for him to resign, that such calls were “premature” and would themselves “undermine” the role of the AG.
Several NY female lawmakers are being asked to sign onto a statement that suggests that calls for Cuomo to resign are "premature" and would "undermine" the role of the Attorney General
Photo Credit: @J__Velasquez pic.twitter.com/6CdKjerHm6
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 9, 2021
Here are the women who signed it.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 9, 2021
What utter nonsense, right? Calling for him to resign doesn’t do a darn thing to undermine any investigation. It’s just hoping he has a conscience, which, of course, he doesn’t. It’s a ridiculous political spin that makes no sense. Almost sounds like Cuomo influenced it.
Guess what? He did. According to reports, his people were circulating it, trying to get female lawmakers to sign aboard it.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making calls to state lawmakers asking them to say they cannot support calls for his resignation because it may stymie Attorney General Tish James' independent investigation, according to several sources.
— Josefa Velásquez (@J__Velasquez) March 8, 2021
Several female lawmakers are being asked to sign onto this statement circulating this morning. According to sources the idea originated from the Cuomo administration and insinuates that calls for Cuomo to resign would "undermine" the role of the Attorney General. https://t.co/CWsYmHj5er pic.twitter.com/kDBAOwia88
— Josefa Velásquez (@J__Velasquez) March 8, 2021
So literally trying to pressure women to defend the charges made against him by women.
Of course this isn’t the position that he’s taken in the past when another Democratic politician was accused of sexual allegations.
Cuomo in 2018 with demands Eric Schneiderman's resignation. pic.twitter.com/HxhVFWgjpC
— 🌈🌹 #CuomoMustResign #RaiseTheWage (@ny_indivisible) March 8, 2021
So he’s saying women calling for him to resign are somehow not respecting the ‘first female African American NY Attorney General?’ That should come as a surprise to Democratic NY Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who is black and who called for him to resign on Sunday. Not only is Cuomo trying to pressure the female lawmakers but he’s throwing in race too. He really has no shame at all.
If calling for him to resign is somehow interfering in the AG’s investigation, what is pressuring female lawmakers to sign about such a letter, to manipulate public opinion and the news?
Both Republicans and progressives called out Cuomo for doing that.
According to sources, these Cuomo-endorsed lawmakers were asked by him to sign this letter that basically says that we must wait for the probe (maybe they know it's going to yield nothing) so they can't possibly call for resignation or impeachment now. https://t.co/B85GPMtw5C
— Patrick Bobilin, NYS Assembly 76th District🌹☀️🦷 (@PatrickForNYC) March 8, 2021
Letter that @McMahonforNYS and other Democratic lawmakers signed….that the office of Democratic governor @NYGovCuomo drafted for them… https://t.co/ioXOZLfcIz
— Nick Wilock (@nickwilock) March 8, 2021
Also several state lawmakers that Cuomo's Administration strong-armed into signing on to a prewritten letter. On #InternationalWomensDay of all things.
— Brian P. Mangan 🇺🇸 (@brianpmangan) March 9, 2021
The letter is a back-handed pushback to those who call for Cuomo to resign.
Those lawmakers are essentially saying that Cuomo leaving now undermines African American Woman AG James.
I have rarely seen such a gaslighting, twisted release. But thumbs up for the hack who wrote it. https://t.co/h2YGZ4r7mh
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) March 8, 2021
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