Wasn't Andrew Cuomo accused of sexual harassment by a number of women?

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Have people forgotten about it?

[marble falls]

1. Yes. And yes-ish.

[Attilatheblond]

2. With all the post mortems done on elections, it will be interesting to see the gender split on Cuomo voters

Betting his biggest supporters will turn out to be male and of a specific age bracket.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Is he winning?

[Captain Zero]

4. Of course, Trump backs him, Trump is always fluffing the abusers

where are the Epstein files??

[2naSalit]

9. Their crimes...

Are currency for the orange ogre.

[karynnj]

5. Yes he was and the second question is trickier

I contend that given his name recognition, had he not had to resign in disgrace accused by more than 10 women of sexual harassment, he would have won the Democratic primary.

From some accounts, there are many who can not vote for him because of that. He has tried to label Mamdani in many negative ways and may have accomplished making himself even less likable.

I hope that the elections in NYC, NJ, VA and CA go out way.

[GreatGazoo]

6. Lost the primary but refused to take "no" for an answer

Seems like a pattern.

[EdmondDantes_]

7. People are good at finding a way to excuse someone they like

Look at how Republicans can ignore Trump bragging about sexual assault much less being found liable for it. Or here, people still wish for a Franken comeback by minimizing all of the allegations against him to the USO picture one.

[live love laugh]

8. Cuomo Stunned Into Silence When Faced With His Sexual Assault Accuser

https://newrepublic.com/post/202180/andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-sexual-harassment-accuser

New York City’s second mayoral debate did not pan out well for disgraced ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo, least of all when Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani revealed that one of the women who had accused Andrew Cuomo of harassment was in the debate audience.

Charlotte Bennett was the second of 13 women to accuse Cuomo of sexually harassing them during his time in office. Bennett worked as an executive assistant and health policy adviser in the Cuomo administration, but left after the governor asked several unwelcome questions about her sex life and if she “had ever been with an older man.”

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Bennett was apparently invited to the debate hall Wednesday night by Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and her presence forced one of Cuomo’s most contemptible scandals to center stage.

“You sought to access her private gynecological records,” Mamdani said, referring to actions that Cuomo’s legal team undertook as part of his defense. “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak.

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11. Yep

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/lindsey-boylan-on-andrew-cuomos-abuses-of-power

Lindsey Boylan on Andrew Cuomo’s Abuses of Power

The former aide who revealed Cuomo’s misconduct joins Current Affairs to explain how he tried to silence his accusers and critics.

Lindsey Boylan was the first woman to speak out and reveal the sexual misconduct of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now running to be the mayor of New York City. In this conversation, she explains how Cumo’s pattern of harassment, retaliation, and intimidation mirrors the authoritarian tactics of Donald Trump. Boylan describes how Cuomo weaponized state resources, silenced critics, and surrounded himself with enablers, all while cultivating a media image of competence and compassion.

Well, just to start out, thank you so much for having me. I’ve always contended that Andrew Cuomo’s abuse of women is really symptomatic of his larger abuse of power. And I think his reaction to me telling the truth in my Medium piece about his behavior and the toxic work environment that he harbored is exactly an example of that abuse of power. It doesn’t have to be related to sexual harassment. He employed basically his entire senior staff to come after me, to smear me. He connected his staff to the Time’s Up senior staff, to try and get them to sign on to, at the very least, not speaking out on my behalf, which they did not. Time’s Up is an organization in Hollywood that was meant to root out sexual harassment and assault in that realm, largely in response to things like Harvey Weinstein—notoriously bad abusers.

So Andrew Cuomo and his staff used their legitimacy to try and prevent support for me, which is all documented in the report. He also had [one of] his intermediaries, his former legal staff—who was then the head of the Human Rights Campaign—share some bogus smear attack on me that they had with the media. Various intermediaries of the governor’s, some of whom are supporting his candidacy now from Mercury Public Affairs, connected with my campaign staff—I was running for office at the time—to try and intimidate them from working with me.

And he’s basically started at that moment with retaliation, not really to silence me alone, but to silence the many women who would come forward. Because he doesn’t know how to be appropriate with women.

So he did that immediately as the sitting governor of New York. And since that time, both in and out of office, he’s used every state resource he can, including taxpayer-funded legal defense, to continue to harass and retaliate against me and the other women who bravely spoke up, not simply to try to silence us, but to make an example of us so more women and, frankly, more people don’t speak up about his many abuses of power, even beyond sexual harassment.

He’s weaponized the legal system. He’s weaponized taxpayer dollars. He’s weaponized every resource he can to silence not only his victims, but any of his critics. And who do we know who does that at the federal level?

That is why so many of us who know Andrew Cuomo say that he is essentially the same person as Donald Trump, and has a real tendency towards fascism and abuses of power that we see right now in DC.

Lindsay Boylen is awesome. Women like her end up helping all women in the long run. It couldn’t have been easy to come out. She perfectly conveys a sense of the ways in which women are intimidated into silence. Though her sanity was not called into question as far as I can tell- and that’s such a classic .

There also needs to be way more support for anonymous female complainants. Paranoid fears about false allegations have lead to a very permissive culture for creepy men along with a deeply uncomfortable one for female complainants. Stats repeatedly show that false allegations make up a small fraction of all allegations. Yes they shouldn’t occur at all, but women shouldn’t have to undergo trials by fire to be believed.

All other things aside, most lefty feminists truly wouldn’t endanger hard-won progress in women’s rights with formal allegations that are fallacious or deceptive. But these days anything you say in the heat of the moment, (especially under sustained stress) can be used to make you come off as unstable.

MeToo was awesome, but in the end that sort of chaotic pushback has to yield to more systematic and orderly pushback against systemic sexism and harassment.