Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a televised address, the 63-year-old Democrat emphatically denied intentionally showing any disrespect toward women but said that fighting back against what he called the “politically motivated” attack on him would subject the state to months of turmoil, and “I cannot be the cause of that.”
I call bullshit on that excuse. I don't believe for a picosecond that Cuomo cared about "months of turmoil". What propmted Cuomo to leave was the certainty that he was going to be frog-marched out of the governor's mansion. Hell, even Palin's managed to make her way in the world after resigning under fire. What would make that much harder is having the term "impeached and removed" always mentioned in stories about him.
No tears here. Cuomo has been an imperious governor, alway willing to cut corners to glom more and more authority and power. He can go inhabit some funded chair at a mid-grade university's political science department and rot into irrelevance.
May also have something to do with getting booted from the Act Blue platform.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
But like another famous Italian who won the distinction of making the trains run on time, he did a pretty good job where iron-handed public health actions were necessary with covid.
ReplyDeleteA doctor friend who swam in the early covid NYC waters told me that, re: the nursing home thing of shuttling recovering covid cases *somewhere*, was necessary to deal with the tsunami of new cases, that there were then *no* good options. Of course, fudging the numbers was dumbdumbdumb.
Having said all that, Cuomo deserves some form of crucifixion for harassing women, particularly given how it absolutely Does Not Get It. Ala Byng: ais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de tems en tems un Amiral pour encourager les autres.
And oh, but how I would love to see Clockwork Orange behavioral modification of the C-suite.
IBM in the Hudson Valley had a string of name-ends-in-a-vowel top management that were too often screamers that motivated by fear. Boy is that a losing proposition. Being a knee-breaker leads to doing nothing else.