Charlotte Bennett, 25, a former executive assistant and health policy adviser in the Cuomo administration, told The New York Times that when she was alone with Cuomo in his office, the governor asked her about her sex life, and if she “had ever been with an older man.”
Bennett is a survivor of sexual assault. “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” she told the New York Times.
So how deep can bias confirmation and cognitive dissonance run? Likely seen today as one of the least effective and lead credible Governors, just a few months ago Democrats were looking at Cuomo as the gold standard of how to handle a crisis. Many had suggested that Cuomo make a late play for the Democratic nomination. He even won an "Emmy" for his televised press conference, which might go down as the stupidest Hollywood award ever given.
The odd thing is that nothing has tangibly changed from when Cuomo was seen as someone with national aspirations, to today where Cuomo might be looking for little more than a soft landing. If anything, the numbers from New York were much "worse" when he was being praised, then they are today, as he is being fairly judged as an incompetent if not a criminal because of his response.
No, the difference is what the left was able to somehow gleam out of the situation back when they were looking for an anti-Trump to guide them. They were not only able to see leadership where none really existed, they were able to completely shut out the negatives as if they didn't actually exist.
There was no real "leadership" - just criticism and finger pointing. But the left were able to convince themselves that this was what the country needed in a crisis. Someone to say it was someone else's fault. There was also an incredible amount of negatives out in broad daylight, including New York just simply having more people die than most of the rest of the country combined. But for some reason, those negatives were completely drowned out by the media and liberal exclamations of how much leadership and crisis management Cuomo was providing.
I mean, if you want a classic example of media propaganda being able to convince a bunch of sheep that up is down and left is right, look no further than the rise and fall story of Governor Cuomo and his behavior during the Covid-19 crisis. Sheep were convinced by the media that probably the least competent Governor in the United States was the most competent. They were convinced largely by propaganda, as the media literally had no factual case to make.
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He should resign.
Mollie
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1365864722738909184
Our corrupt media (they are not 'mainstream') brazenly set false narratives about Cuomo that led to unnecessary deaths and affected U.S. elections. Later, they gently/mildly admit to a few of his failures. In no way is this evidence of them doing their jobs even remotely well.
FAKE NEWS actually did kill people
As did Cuomo
enemy of the people
we have two corrupt imbeciles running cover for Killer Cuomo. Andrea-Stewart-Cousins, leader of the NYS Senate, and Carl Heastie, Leader of the NYS Assembly.
and yes alky, they're both black. or as you would call them on twitter - negroes.
they are slow walking a legislature response to this at a snail's pace in the hopes of no other allegations coming to light.
Killer Cuomo's TDS caused the nursing home issue. He had a mercy ship floating in NY harbor and a 3,000 bed makeshift hospital at the Javits Center, and his TDS prevented him from using both, as they were part of a federal effort which meant Bad Orange Man, and we simply could not credit Bad Orange Man with anything at all.
It's possible that the accusations were not valid.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the state's attorney general and chief appeals court judge to jointly appoint an independent lawyer to investigate claims that he sexually harassed at least two women who worked for him.
The move came after legislative leaders assailed Cuomo's plan to appoint a retired federal judge to conduct the probe.
"The Governor's Office wants a review of the sexual harassment claims made against the Governor to be done in a manner beyond reproach," Beth Garvey, special counsel to the governor, said. "We had selected former Federal Judge Barbara Jones, with a stellar record for qualifications and integrity, but we want to avoid even the perception of a lack of independence or inference of politics."
I don't think that he should resign immediately until the investigation is done
"The Governor's Office wants a review of the sexual harassment claims made against the Governor to be done in a manner beyond reproach,"
nah.
I say we just go with a review of the sexual harassment claims made against the Governor to be done in a manner consistent with Killer Cuomo's opinion and attitude towards Brett Kavanagh.
because believe all wymyn, of course, right alky?
or shall we be hypocrites about this like we usually are, alky?
It's possible that the accusations were not valid.
"Always believe the women." Said every Democrat during Kavanaugh's hearing.
"Always believe the women." Said every Democrat during Kavanaugh's hearing.
That’s different he’s conservative, so shut up
I just saw the the attorney general said that the investigation would not be able to subpoena witnesses. Unless they authorize a completely authorized investigation, he might have to resign.
He's in huge trouble now.
More news
Under state law, the state attorney general needs a referral from the governor in order to investigate his conduct.
A spokesperson for James called Cuomo’s idea of simply giving her a role in selecting the investigator unacceptable because that inquisitor would lack the ability to subpoena witnesses and documents, and would have to rely on voluntary cooperation.
Democratic State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Senate majority leader, said through her spokesperson, “We support the AG and her call for referral.”
The crisis now enveloping Cuomo’s office developed rapidly after a second woman on Saturday went public with a story about being harassed by the governor in the workplace.
Charlotte Bennett, a low-level aide in the governor’s administration until November, told The New York Times that Cuomo asked her inappropriate questions about her sex life, including whether she ever had sex with older men.
Her accusation came days after another former aide, Lindsey Boylan, a former deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor, elaborated on harassment allegations she first made in December. Boylan said Cuomo subjected her to an unwanted kiss and inappropriate comments.
The 63-year-old Cuomo said in a statement Saturday he had intended to be a mentor for Bennett, who is 25. He has denied Boylan’s allegations.
Personally I think he should resign now.
I hold Democrats to a higher standard than you do about Kavanaugh
Pallets of cash are in the way, courtesy, Dementia Joe, ValJar and Obunghole
An Iranian woman died of a heart attack while waiting to be executed — but her body was still hanged so her victim’s mother could watch, according to her lawyer.
Zahra Ismaili was awaiting her turn at the gallows last Wednesday for killing her husband, a senior agent in the Ministry of Intelligence whom she had accused of being abusive, according to The Times of London.
She dropped dead after being made to watch 16 men being hanged ahead of her, according to a message by her lawyer, Omid Moradi, shared by the UK paper and Iran Human Rights Monitor (HRM).
“Zahra’s heart stopped and she died before she was taken to the gallows,” Moradi reportedly wrote, saying the official cause of death was listed as “cardiac arrest.”
“They hanged her lifeless body, and the victim’s mother, Fatemeh Asal-Mahi, personally kicked the stool from under her feet so she could see her daughter-in-law’s corpse on the gallows for even a few seconds,” he wrote in the since-deleted post, according to the outlets.
The body was hanged at dawn at Rajai Shahr Prison, a notoriously harsh jail in Karaj, a suburb of capital Tehran, the outlets said.
Moradi had insisted Ismaili acted in self-defense to save herself and her children when she killed her husband, Alireza Zamani, the UK Times said.
The Islamic Republic has carried out many death penalties in the past few weeks but to execute 17 people together is extreme even by Iran’s standards, the UK paper noted.
Ismaili is one of three women killed last week, making 114 women executed under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure, which began in 2013, according to Iran HRM.
I hold Democrats to a higher standard than you do about Kavanaugh
uh huh. you explicitly believed Dr. Cray Cray without corroboration, and demanded Kavanaugh's immediate removal without a shred of due process.
you had zero fuck's to give about Kavanaugh's guilt or innocence. you simply saw him as a threat to your liberal agenda so therefore he had to die.
alky, you are so fucking full of shit it's laughable.
Here's a VALUABLE contribution to this boring thread
(we all know Cuomo is now in deep trouble).
HERE'S SOMETHING VERY RARE.
A GOOD, DECENT, PRINCIPLED REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM MY OWN COUNTY AND SISTER TOWN
WHO HAS THE ACTUAL COURAGE TO STAND UP TO TRUMP WHEN HE KNOWS HE'S WRONG!
(Something really missing in the GOP these days!)
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From Illinois Public Radio’s Statewide podcast:
INTRODUCTION:
Adam Kinzinger’s profile has risen since he took a hard stance supporting the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. Kinzinger is a Republican who grew up in central Illinois. We’ll hear about people who’ve known him a long time, and what they think of the Congressman. “He’s not going to act like a lot of other people and pretend to sweep things under the rug that he knows are wrong because he actually has a moral compass.”
___________
First up this week:
Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger’s support for impeachments of former President Donald Trump helped make Kinzinger a national political figure, but he’s also taking heat from many from within his own party, even within his own family.
Eric Stock reports “those who follow the early days of Kinzinger’s political career in McLean County are not surprised by his success or the courage that has put his career in jeopardy.”
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STOCK: Erik Rankin is a fierce Democrat and former head of the McLean County Democratic Party. Rankin became friends with Adam Kinzinger in grade school. They lived on the same street in south Bloomington. They hung out a lot. Even then, Rankin says, Kinzinger didn’t lack confidence: “Adam rode the bus and he told everybody he was going to run for Congress someday. Uh, that’s not even a made up story, and we all laughed at him. Well, I guess we’re the ones who look like fools.”
Kinzinger studied political science at Illinois State University and one of his professors was Gary Klass. The now retired Klass says Kinzinger was a good student who enjoyed a good debate. “I remember him as uh -- ah, kind of a little bit conservative, but in my class I really liked having students on both sides.”
It turned out to be good prep for later.
Kinzinger says there were times he was the only conservative in the classroom. “And I think that taught me to be able to stand alone, to be able to defend your position without having to have people around you to support you.”
Kinzinger still had a lot to learn. Friend Erik Rankin says Kinzinger struggled to focus in school. “Much like typical eighteen year olds, you know, middle class, white America – he was a bit of a knucklehead and just really couldn’t find a way to make the academic side work with his social side.”
Those distractions almost ended Kinzinger’s college career early. Kinzinger says he refocused and graduated on time. “And I give ISU a lot of credit for that, for I know they had no idea who I was -- I was a number, you know, applying, but they let me back in. They gave me a second chance.”
Kinzinger found purpose in politics, and Erik Rankin says it helped him get his act together. At age twenty, Kinzinger ran for McLean County Board and beat an incumbent to become the youngest to serve on the board. That was in 1998. George Gordon served on the board with Kinzinger. Gordon is a Democrat. He says “Kinzinger was conscientious.” Gordon recalls that when the board was divided on naming a new chair, Kinzinger wanted to hear from advocates for both candidates. “What struck a couple of us, particularly – we talked about this – was how carefully he went about the decision making process. And at that point he was twenty-two.”
Kinzinger didn’t just settle for ordinary duties on the Country Board. David Selzer also served with Kinzinger. The two Republicans pushed to abolish the elected Reporter’s Office and move the duty to the County Clerk to save money. Selzer says he could tell Kinzinger had the courage of his convictions:
“I think that Adam came to the County Board with that already shaped. I believe that his parents raised their children with this belief in themselves.”
Kinzinger’s family grounding included his father Russ who ran a faith-based homeless shelter in Bloomington. Retired ISU professor Bob Bradley says Kinzinger saw people in need at an early age [and] that animates Kinzinger’s sense of service and values: “As a conservative, you rely on private community entities to help people rather than relying exclusively or primarily on the government for assistance. And he had seen that directly.”
Kinzinger resigned from the County Board in 2003 to join the Air Force. Kinzinger says he was inspired to serve after the 9/11 terror attacks. Back then, Kinzinger said, “a military life provides something politics can’t. I look at it and I see, you know, real unity. There is almost a brother and a sisterhood in it of people that every day have to wake up with the thought that at some point they may be called on to give their lives for the other person and again, you know I love politics, but that’s kind of an area that’s missing in politics.”
Kinzinger served in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but he never gave up on politics. Friend Erik Rankin says joining the Air Force grounded Kinzinger. In 2006, Kinzinger saved a woman who was being attacked at knife point in Milwaukee. Rankin says Kinzinger’s profile continued to rise: “We could just see that his story was starting to write itself; Adam thought and cared about other people.”
Kinzinger recently began his sixth term in Congress. It might also be his most perilous. After the January insurrection, Kinzinger called for Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office. Two county GOPs in his district have censored Kinzinger; a family member even sent a letter saying Kinzinger was “working for the devil’s army.”
Former Board member George Gordon says Kinzinger knows the risks he takes in trying to reshape a party that is still loyal to Donald Trump. “I’m impressed with his guts [laughs]. He has shown, as I say, a LOT of political courage.”
Friend Erik Rankin says that when Kinzinger vows to change the Republican Party even if it costs him his career, he means it:
“He’s not going to act like a lot of other people and pretend to sweep things under the rug that he knows are wrong because he actually has a moral compass. Politicians with a moral compass these days are very few and far between.”
Rankin says he and Kinzinger are still friends. They are political opposites, but Rankin says their political views never got in the way of friendship because disagreements are never personal. Rankin says he and Kinzinger stay in touch, but even he doesn’t know what Kinzinger wants to do next – stay in Congress, run for higher office, start his own foundation, or something else. Rankin is watching Kinzinger put his career on the line to change a party Rankin has opposed for much of his life. Yet if Kinzinger called Rankin and asked him to work on something, Rankin says, he’d likely say yes.
–I’m Eric Stock.
Addendum:
When Republicans in Will County censored Kinzinger recently, the Congressman issued a statement saying the Will County GOP has failed to help local Republicans get elected. He says they should spend more time on that than, quote, “petty censor votes.”
*petty censure votes
Fuck Kinzinger.
His ass is second on the list to primary right after Cheney's.
CaliforniaGirlinaCaliforniaWorld
https://twitter.com/PorscheCutie/status/1365548475467763712
FYI : Gavin Newsom went to a restaurant in Fresno today and dined inside the restaurant with George Lopez in a county that is in the purple tier (most restrictive) and does not allow for indoor dining.
Newsom will join Cuomo out of office pretty soon.
After pretty much destroying New York and California.
Don't worry, they will never face any real prosecution or lose their multi-millions they made while in office. In fact the cash will keep flowing in.
They are democrats.
They are all "the big guy"
That's there brand.
They can do whatever they want, live in their gated mansions, fly their carbon exhausting private jets to climate conferences to accept awards and the media will always have their back.
No matter what while they are useful, but "let's move on" after they are not.
rrb said...
Fuck Kinzinger.
His ass is second on the list to primary right after Cheney's.
Trump definitely exposed the FAKE republicans.
John LeFevre
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1366068913289785350
If these credible sexual assault allegations were against DeSantis instead of Cuomo, how fast do you think Hillary, Kamala, and Warren would be publicly slamming him?
Instead... crickets.
Will Hillary actually lives with someone with even stronger evidence and accusations against him. And she actually went out of her way to support him. Didn't appear to bother democrats.
She's with him
Hillary and AOC showing who they really support:
https://gab.com/F16VIPER01/posts/105809182472686875
Perhaps Kamala was under the table ???
excuse me, it's cum allah
Democrats have the majority, and it's time for them to use it. Democrats must wield their power—and that means getting rid of the filibuster. Fast.
The filibuster is an archaic Senate rule that requires a 60-vote supermajority to pass legislation. In its current form, it's rooted in the Jim Crow era, when senators from Southern states used it to block civil rights legislation.
It takes only a simple majority to change a Senate rule. But if 2 Democrats vote against it, it still gives a minority from changing the law.
It's not in the Constitution but the Senate writes the rules.
Will Hillary actually lives with someone with even stronger evidence and accusations against him
It’s still amazing that after spending her life with Bubba none of his charisma or likability rubbed off on Cankles
Where are Hillary, Cumalla, Warren, Nany Pee and other #Metoocunts?
Roger...
So the idea that a group of minority Senators (or even a single Senator) could prevent a vote by simply keeping their speeches going is racist, huh? Those old days of reading a dictionary was all a white supremacist plot against minorities?
I think the thing you take issue with is the "cloture" which requires 60 votes to put an end to a filibuster (so people did not have to physically filibuster). Closure has been around since the early 1900s (and quite obviously has nothing to do with slavery, since that ended decades before).
Either way... anything the left doesn't like is immediately deemed to be racist and somehow about slavery (which ended 160 years ago).
when senators from Southern states used it to block civil rights legislation.
Alky you DECLARED those states have no minorities or urban areas and that’s why we are faring better from Covid.
Make up your mind
THWAP!!
Always wrong Roger.
"Roger AmickFebruary 28, 2021 at 2:55 PM
Democrats have the majority, and it's time for them to use it. Democrats must wield their power—and that means getting rid of the filibuster. Fast"
Why? , The rules are yo be changed because you want it.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged for the first time Sunday that some of his behavior with women had been "misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation," and said he would cooperate with a sexual harassment investigation led by the state's attorney general.
In a statement released amid mounting criticism from within his own party, the Democrat maintained he had never inappropriately touched or propositioned anyone. But he said he had teased people and made jokes about their personal lives in an attempt to be "playful."
"I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended. I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that," he said.
He made the comments after the state's attorney general demanded Cuomo grant her the authority to investigate claims he sexually harassed at least two women who worked for him.
Cuomo's legal counsel said the governor would back a plan to appoint an outside lawyer as a special independent deputy attorney general.
Top Democrats statewide appeared to be abandoning Cuomo in large numbers as he tried to retain some say over who would investigate his workplace conduct.
His career is over
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