23 August 2021: Cuomo's Last Day in Office Arrives

Cuomo pretends he’s NY’s ‘hero’ during final days in office

At 11:59 PM, Andrew M. Cuomo's announced resignation will take effect, making current Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul New York's governor. According to this report, as he exits, he isn't doing her any favors in terms of helping her transition into the job.

Disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo is milking his final days in office, keeping his successor at arm’s length and capitalizing on his final performance as man-in-charge as the state gets pounded by Tropical Storm Henri, according to political observers.

With just over 36 hours remaining in office, Cuomo used the storm to hog the limelight Sunday morning, reprising a familiar role that garnered him national attention before his career was torpedoed by a series of sexual harassment allegations substantiated by the state’s attorney general.

“He’s doing his best to keep a veneer as if the world hasn’t imploded on top of him,” said John Samuelsen, president of the Transit Workers Union, a former ally.

“His ego, every single time, is going to be the biggest thing in the room.”

During a 32-minute press briefing Sunday morning — and with his successor Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul nowhere in sight — a white polo-clad Cuomo delivered an update about the storm and the state’s efforts to handle it, sprinkling in trite wisecracks and even a head-scratching parable.

We think the displayed combination of strangeness and narcissism is attributable to the bunker mentality that has characterized Cuomo's tenure in office during most of 2021, which is shared by himself and his dead-ender loyalist staffers.

Speaking of which, if Hochul has any political survival instinct, she'll start clearing out Cuomo's embedded loyalists serving in appointed positions at all levels within New York's state government as soon as she's sworn in.