7 September 2021: HRC Board Wants to Fire Former Cuomo Aide Heading HRC

Human Rights Campaign board confirms they want to fire president Alphonso David

The co-chairs of the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign want former Cuomo aide and current president of the group Alphonso David gone. This report describes their efforts to counter the Cuomo influence network member's attempt to hang onto his position at the group:

The HRC board co-chairs Jodie Patterson and Morgan Cox sent a company-wide email Monday to staffers, addressing David’s public declaration Sunday afternoon that he will not resign from his position despite being urged to step down.

The group is the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.

“Yesterday, you received an email from Alphonso David. We were very surprised and disappointed by the inaccuracies in his portrayal of events,” the pair wrote.

“Over the past month, the boards of the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation have undertaken a thorough investigation into Mr. David’s conduct regarding Governor Cuomo through the Board’s Executive Committees with the assistance of counsel. That investigation will soon be completed, and the Boards will then have more to say.”

“As that process was nearing its conclusion, Mr. David was offered, at the direction of the Committee, the opportunity to discuss in good faith a separation from HRC, and his lawyers began that discussion on his behalf. Mr. David’s email yesterday is unfortunate given his mischaracterizations, including the assertion that there was “no indication of wrongdoing on his part,” they added, disputing David’s claim Sunday that the board’s inquiry into his conduct was complete and his record cleared.

Their wording suggests its just a matter of time before David is gone. That's especially true if he mischaracterized the status of the board's inquiry, which would represent grounds for his dismissal on its own. If the group's ability to raise funds has been negatively impacted because of David's involvement in Andrew M. Cuomo's sexual harassment and retaliation scandals, the findings of the board's inquiry will just be a formality.