6 October 2021: Cuomo Aides Told Hochul She Would be Dumped

Andrew Cuomo aides told Kathy Hochul she was off 2022 ticket before scandals

Unless something comes up involving the hapless, ethics-compromised host of CNN's Primetime broadcast, Chris Cuomo, we're calling this the bottom story of the day. That doesn't mean this report, which came out on 5 October 2021, is not interesting, but it does confirm the one-way hate relationship Andrew M. Cuomo had toward the woman who would succeed him as governor after he chose to resign in disgrace to avoid impeachment over allegations he sexually harassed multiple women.

In the following excerpt, we've focused on the comments made by members of "Team Cuomo":

Top aides to disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo told then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul in a phone call that she would be off the ticket come 2022 as Cuomo made plans to vie for a fourth term — before his political career was undone by an epic sex harassment scandal....

“It was like their mindset in 2018, they were thinking “we have progressive issues, we need someone downstate who has a relationship with the minority community, but who cares,” said a person familiar with the exchange.

“There was no relationship,” the person added, between Cuomo and Hochul....

“There was a concerted effort to sideline her as much as possible,” added a former Cuomo insider, who said the governor’s aides went to great pains to sideline Hochul and minimize her profile as much as possible. “It was true before and during the pandemic.”

A third source, familiar with Cuomo’s thinking, said that “there was a concern about diversity on the ticket.”...

Hochul received the phone call in late January, three sources confirmed to The Post.

Shortly after their message had been sent, Attorney General Letitia James released her office's blockbuster report confirming Team Cuomo was covering up the full extent of COVID-related deaths among New York nursing home residents. Many of these highly vulnerable residents became infected during the period the administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect, as Cuomo administration officials forced nursing homes to blindly admit COVID patients being dumped out of hospitals to free up bed space.

That event started the cascade of actions that ultimately led to Andrew M. Cuomo's voluntary resignation.