I don’t love Andrew Cuomo. Have been New York international soil, Andrew would have been its czar.
I used to be very near Gov. Mario, his father. We liked one another. Did dinners collectively. He escorted me to the governor’s mansion — confirmed me its personal areas — from household kitchen to Andrew’s room.
I liked Mario and Matilda. When The Publish suffered possession issues, Gov. Mario phoned me DAILY.
Zero causes to befriend Andrew. In a crowd he came visiting. Kissed my cheek. Heat, no. Brush-off, sure. No interviews. By no means referred to as. By no means returned repeat calls. Even earlier than the nursing dwelling scandal I felt anger towards him.
I knew his longtime live-in from years again. When first Sandra Lee met him, she got here to my dwelling. Simply us alone. We talked for hours. She requested about him. I stated he’s poisonous. I warned her. Ask Sandra. She’ll corroborate.
I don’t care what occurs to Andrew. I now simply put forth what perhaps must be talked about.
Attention-grabbing findings in data
Andrew Cuomo forwarded me an enormous article from a Cato Institute fellow named Cathy Younger. It says partly: “His resignation could also be #MeToo extra not success.”
To paraphrase Younger: “Questioning these girls’ credibility is seen as reprehensible. No person will ever give him a free cross or name Andrew angelic. However some trivial allegations — gentle banter, photograph ops, arm round a waist — don’t imply he did nothing improper — however they query the doable weaponization of #MeToo.”
Groping one assistant lacked corroboration. Poring over the data, Younger acknowledged one other seemed to be rehired after leaving. That aide, who was working in a main, was “incensed” over an govt order that shortened the nominating petition interval. Younger stated, in a stream of that aide’s textual content messages was discovered this message: “I’ll discover methods to reply . . . Life is lengthy. And so is my reminiscence. And so are my sources.”
In 2017, a school settled a lawsuit of a male scholar who claimed he was falsely accused of “nonconsensual sexual contact” by a feminine Cuomo aide who was then a scholar. In keeping with the person, the aide “admitted as a lot in a recorded dialog, and had colluded with three different complainants.”
Cuomo, Younger reviews, advised her, “Eleven circumstances of sexual harassment creates a press frenzy. Who will say something aside from, ‘It’s a must to resign?’ ”
One other look?
I do know Andrew. So am I whitewashing him? No. He very just lately stated he’d get again to me. He didn’t. I do know his office was a struggle entrance. I do know he believed he’s impregnable. I do know he’ll say no matter he must say. I do know he’s trying to claw again up. I do know he’s not cuddly. And I do know if he finally ends up as a film usher I don’t care.
I’m simply mentioning what perhaps must be talked about.
Might be Cuomo’s model is just too self-exculpatory. However following this scholar’s intensive fact-finding, presumably equity deserves — if nothing else — even when the schleppers’ transferring van shouldn’t be double parked to presumably relocate this former czar’s belongings again upstate — perhaps the findings deserve one other look.
In the meantime, again to work. Trip is if you get away from being cooped up in a tiny house with the partner, youngsters, perhaps in legal guidelines, perhaps completely unemployed brother and you may as a substitute spend two weeks with them cooped up in a tiny motel room — particularly when it rains.
Solely not in New York, youngsters, solely not in New York.
