10 February 2022: Cuomo Won't Run to Replace Tish James

Cuomo confirms not running against state A.G. James, will address allegations against him ‘soon’

Here's the new meat from a report that's mostly a recap of recent stories the timeline has covered separately:

In an hourlong virtual news conference, Rita Glavin, his personal attorney, also addressed rumblings that the defiant Cuomo might run again for office. Asked whether a campaign is coming, she told reporters, “I don’t know.”

Cuomo, who has kept a low profile since quitting, has begun to poke his head out recently as rumors grow that he might challenge the reelection bid of state Attorney General Letitia James.

Cuomo’s spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, said Thursday that Cuomo does not intend to run against James.

We think Andrew M. Cuomo will launch a campaign, if for no other reason than to extract the $16.4 million he has sitting in his campaign's bank account that, by law, he cannot directly cash out and pocket.

That campaign will almost certainly fund high-dollar salaries for Cuomo's close family members and "friends" for their "work" on getting him elected to whatever position he might choose to run for. The last people who should ever expect any of that money are the donors who contributed funds while Cuomo served as New York's governor, before he resigned in disgrace.

If you think that's not true, let's see what happens should any of Cuomo's previous big money donors ask for a refund....

Better still, have Cuomo explain in detail why he's unwilling to run against Tish James for a statewide office to which he was once elected.