Thursday, October 07, 2021

7 October 2021: State Senate Majority Leader Wants Cuomo to Quietly Think About What He's Done

Top Albany Dem cuts down Cuomo over email to die-hard supporters

This report is of interest mainly because it involves Andrew Stewart Cousins, who chose to participate in political events with Cuomo while he was still NY Governor, even after calling for his resignation over multiple sexual harassment allegations. As such, the report is also an indication of how elected officials in Cuomo's political party are viewing his efforts to discredit his perceived enemies.

The top Democrat in the New York state Senate said Wednesday that disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo should spend his sudden free time “in introspection” after he tried to play the victim in an email to supporters earlier this week....

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins (D-Yonkers) took a dim view of Cuomo’s claims Wednesday night.

“I’m sorry that he’s doing this,” she told Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight”. “I understand that he has a lot of time on his hands, but I was hoping that that time would be spent in introspection, frankly.”...

“I do believe that New York is in a good place, that we are focused on governing and that for him, I think it would be beneficial if he were going to keep his comments in a more positive light,” she said. “And again, I think it’s important that he spend some time looking at what happened, looking at the fact that once again, we have an attorney general that substantiated the claims of 11 — that wasn’t all of the people who came forward, but there were 11 people whose claims were substantiated.”

In other words, she wants Cuomo to go quietly stand in a corner and think about what he did.