Cuomo says he's 'truly sorry' for workplace comments he says were 'misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation' following sexual harassment claims

cnn.com ^

[Conserv]

(CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday he's "truly sorry" and that some of his previous workplace comments were "misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation" as he faces allegations of sexual harassment.

"I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that," Cuomo said in a statement. He maintained that he never touched anyone inappropriately or propositioned anyone.

The statement came hours after Cuomo changed course earlier Sunday and asked the New York attorney general and the chief judge of the state court of appeals to jointly select an independent attorney to conduct "a thorough review" of sexual harassment claims against him.

[Shortstop7]

Might be able to sell it that the “strip poker” comment was just a stupid joke.... but the kiss just sounds downright creepy.

[Night Hides Not]

“Let’s play strip poker”...one could see how that simple sentence could be so misconstrued.

[ChildOfThe60s]

If Cuomo leaves office early it will be because the Rat power brokers want him out and someone else in. It’s really that simple.

[PGalt]

Cuomo Crime Family ALERT! Oligarch Overlords on display.

[Conserv]

2/28 6:O5pm by lib Karen Tumulty

Opinion: Andrew Cuomo’s survival in office looks doubtful

It is starting to look as if the question will soon be not if but when New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will be forced to resign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/28/andrew-cuomos-survival-office-looks-doubtful/

[Lurker]

Gotta love the “apology”. It’s “I’m sorry YOU misunderstood.”

Not “My behavior was inappropriate and I sincerely apologize to you for that.”

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[Reno89519]

So, ready to resign?

[Chode]

yeah, not holding my breath

[Just mythoughts]

How many Black Lives did Q-Mo kill in state nursing homes? Somebody surely knows,

[Kazan]

He's truly sorry he got caught. But, he's not sorry about the thousands of seniors he killed by sending Covid patients back to nursing homes.

This will probably be good enough for the media and Democrats.

[Conserv]

I know it’s the NYT, but this is a good article....

Under Siege Over Sex Harassment Claims, Cuomo Offers Apology

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/nyregion/cuomo-investigation-sex-harassment.html

[CFW]

Once I had a supervisor instruct me to pack up an item in her office to be returned to the seller. This was a personal item and not work-related. She wanted me to box it up and then take it to the mailroom for Fedex to pick up. The sucker weighed 100 pounds (about what I weighed). I kept responding "no", she kept insisting I do it. Finally, I sent the entire 7 page email exchange to the boss with a note that "I would no longer work for her and he could assign her to someone else".

She told him, "I had misinterpreted her request". He responded, "It's all there in your email". Six assistants later, she finally left the institution. I went on to work for the boss until I retired. I still have a hard copy of that email exchange. Cuomo reminds me of her. It's always someone else's fault.

[freedumb2003]

>>Expect him to resign next, less than a month.<<

To, uh, spend more time with the family.

[Republican Wildcat]

This almost seems to be a distraction from the nursing home scandal. He apologizes for this and the media is focusing on this, but not the nursing home deaths?

[Conserv]

Right.

Apparently, Cuomo doesn’t have many defenders because he’s always been an abusive @ss.

[dandiegirl]

Interesting the way they are going after him. I predict a lot of dem corruption will be exposed as they fight each other for power. Someone- a dem woman- will bring Kamala down too in my opinion.

[Night Hides Not]

I’ll bet that woman’s first name is “Hillary”. LOLOL

[Conserv]

Gov. Cuomo is on the verge of being done for good(2/28 9:51 pm)

Andrew’s in the soup, that’s for sure.

Wrap your head around this: The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Cuomo took time out from coronavirus hot-dogging last June to offer tattoo-placement advice to a just-turned-25-year-old female aide of no particular expertise during a private, closed-door sit-down in the state Capitol.

Cuomo suggested “she should put the tattoo on her buttocks, so people would not see it when she wore a dress,” the paper says.

That was probably sound tattoo strategy — except that 23 years after Monica Lewinsky became a household name it’s pretty astonishing to learn that powerful elected leaders are still maneuvering women of a tender age into private offices and hitting on them.

Or, as Cuomo conceded to the Times, “mentoring” them.

And maybe more to the point, doing that and expecting to get away with it. Too bad for Cuomo that this time the young lady wasn’t having any.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/28/gov-cuomo-is-on-the-verge-of-being-done-for-good/

[Noumenon]

"You peasants couldn't possibly understand the superior outlook and the advanced and subtle nuances that grace my existence. People like me can't possibly be understood by the likes of people like you."

I think that's the gist of it.

[Lurker]

Yep. Which, on a rational planet, would be followed by a bone crushing punch to his ugly face.

But we don’t live on a rational planet.

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