Posted on 02/24/2021 11:39:54 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Required Reading comes from former staffer for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lindsey Boylan. Ms. Boylan spent years working for Cuomo, and tells a story of a workplace environment characterized by constant bullying and sexual harassment coming from the Governor and his male staff.
It is a putrid story that is all too typical in the corporate and political world: One in which a powerful man engages in the most reprehensible behavior imaginable but intimidates people whose livelihoods depend on his good graces into remaining silent and covering for him. The thing about this particular situation is that Cuomo’s bullying style has been common public knowledge for years, yet his pals in the corrupt news media have spent all of that time running cover for him, just as they spent years running cover for creeps like Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein because they all shared the same politics.
Ms. Boylan first went public with her accusations way back in December but few people knew about it since Cuomo’s toadies in the media essentially spiked the story. Today, she has a long and detailed expose’ published at Medium.com, and I wanted to do what little I can to ensure the story gets the maximum distribution possible. I urge you all to read the story and share it among your social media accounts, because the behavior described by Ms. Boylan is that of a real monster.
Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite:
“Let’s play strip poker.”
I should have been shocked by the Governor’s crude comment, but I wasn’t.
We were flying home from an October 2017 event in Western New York on his taxpayer-funded jet. He was seated facing me, so close our knees almost touched. His press aide was to my right and a state trooper behind us.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking,” I responded sarcastically and awkwardly. I tried to play it cool. But in that moment, I realized just how acquiescent I had become.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected. His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics. And if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences.
That’s why I panicked on the morning of December 13.
While enjoying a weekend with my husband and six-year-old daughter, I spontaneously decided to share a small part of the truth I had hidden for so long in shame and never planned to disclose. The night before, a former Cuomo staffer confided to me that she, too, had been the subject of the Governor’s workplace harassment. Her story mirrored my own. Seeing his name floated as a potential candidate for U.S. Attorney General — the highest law enforcement official in the land — set me off.
In a few tweets, I told the world what a few close friends, family members and my therapist had known for years: Andrew Cuomo abused his power as Governor to sexually harass me, just as he had done with so many other women.
As messages from journalists buzzed on my phone, I laid in bed unable to move. I finally had decided to speak up, but at what cost?
Parts of a supposed confidential personnel file (which I’ve never seen) were leaked to the media in an effort to smear me. The Governor’s loyalists called around town, asking about me.
Last week, Assemblymember Ron Kim spoke out publicly about the intimidation and abuse he has faced from Governor Cuomo and his aides. As Mayor de Blasio remarked, “the bullying is nothing new.” There are many more of us, but most are too afraid to speak up.
I’m compelled to tell my story because no woman should feel forced to hide their experiences of workplace intimidation, harassment and humiliation — not by the Governor or anyone else.
I expect the Governor and his top aides will attempt to further disparage me, just as they’ve done with Assemblymember Kim. They’d lose their jobs if they didn’t protect him. That’s how his administration works. I know because I was a part of it.
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The Governor’s behavior made me nervous, but I didn’t truly fear him until December 2016. Senior State employees gathered at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany to celebrate the holidays and our year’s work. After his remarks, the Governor spotted me in a room filled with hundreds of people waiting to shake his hand. As he began to approach me, I excused myself from coworkers and moved upstairs to a more distant area of the party.
Minutes later, I received a call from an unlisted number. It was the Governor’s body person. He told me to come to the Capitol because the Governor wanted to see me.
I made my way through the underground connection that linked the Plaza to the Capitol. As the black wrought-iron elevator took me to the second floor, I called my husband. I told him I was afraid of what might happen. That was unlike me. I was never afraid.
I exited the elevator to see the body person waiting for me. He walked me down the Hall of Governors. “Are there cameras here?” I asked him. I remembered my mother’s text warning the month before. I worried that I would be left alone with the Governor. I didn’t know why I was there. Or how it would end.
I was escorted into the Governor’s office, past the desks of administrative assistants and into a room with a large table and historical artifacts. The door closed behind me. It was my first time in his Albany office. The Governor entered the room from another door. We were alone.
As he showed me around, I tried to maintain my distance. He paused at one point and smirked as he showed off a cigar box. He told me that President Clinton had given it to him while he served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The two-decade old reference to President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was not lost on me.
[End]
Go read the rest. You’ll be disgusted, but you will also be fully informed.
Then share it with your friends.
That is all.
Media’s answer: “However long it takes, because we cannot be proved wrong - even though we are damned lucky to actually be correct every so often.”
They must continue to cover for him since they were running his POTUS 2024 campaign daily during the beginning of covid. If they quit, that’d be admitting they were wrong.
Governor AOC
I think there is more going on here than we know.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Cuomo is a Team Clinton guy.
Team Obama (and Soros) control the media and Biden.
Think on it.....
As long as he remains a Democrat.
“I think there is more going on here than we know.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Cuomo is a Team Clinton guy.
Team Obama (and Soros) control the media and Biden.
Think on it.....”
You could be correct. One never knows with the media - being as sleazy as they are.
The “media” will only need to cover for him until the next mass school shooting. Everything is about buying time for their beloved dems.
The Cruz/Cancun story is no longer the media’s shiny object. There’s really not much else going on to grab the attention of the MSM, not a good sign for Cuomo.
“Today’s Required Reading: How Long Will the Media Cover for Andrew Cuomo?”
Until his replacement for Governor is named in 2022.
If Andrew Cuomo has a body double, he got it from the primate cage at the Bronx Zoo.
They will cover for this criminal for as long as the citizens let them get away with it.
Just as they are still covering for the cop who murdered an unarmed US Air Force Veteran at the capital on Jan 6th of this year.
This was an outright cold blooded murder.
This was an armed cop who shot a totally unarmed woman who was posing no threat to the life or well being of anyone.
This, Jan 6th, was not an armed insurrection, not even close. Those who call it that are bald faced liars.
There were no firearm arrests that day on capital hill because there were no firearms present except for those that law enforcement were wearing. No one burned anything down or defaced any artwork or statues.
There were no ANTIFA weapons present either, IE liquid fueled explosive devices, pipe bombs, sharpened pieces of steel rebar, bike locks in socks, boards with nails sticking out of them, empty wine bottles for launching at the cops, commercial grade explosives/fireworks ignited and fired parallel to the ground at law enforcement, wrist rocket sling shots loaded with steel ball bearings, balloons filled with human waste and urine, rocks, bricks ect.
None of these weapons were found in the possession of the protesters on Jan 6th at the capital but all of the above weapons were in nightly use against both law enforcement and innocent citizen bystanders, by the violent domestic terrorists who were supported, controlled, and enabled by the left. All of this in the lefts efforts to tarnish President Trump and to gain political favor with the far left of their party.
THESE MASSES OF ANTIFA AND BLM TERRORISTS UTILIZED THESE DEADLY WEAPONS IN CONSTANT AND CONTINUOUS ATTEMPTS TO INJURE OR KILL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, AND EVEN ELECTED POLITICIANS, IN MANY CITIES ACROSS OUR NATION, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, FOR MANY MONTHS.
AND YET NO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SHOT ANY OF THESE HEAVILY ARMED LEFT WING TERRORIST ANIMALS.
The killing of the unarmed US Air Force Veteran on capital hill on the 6th of Jan 2021 was a cold blooded murder without any justifiable legal precedent.
Forever. OR until “Tish” James decides to řun for Gov.
White old men are out, Leftwing Black women are in.
“Today’s Required Reading: How Long Will the Media Cover for Andrew Cuomo?”
Heck they covered for Obama formm8 years and will cover for Biden.....I mean Harris for 8 years.
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