Posted on 03/13/2021 4:51:15 AM PST by EyesOfTX
To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world—
Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. – Col. William B. Travis at the Alamo, 1836
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His position is not at all noble, of course, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo surely must be feeling a bit like Col. William Barrett Travis did as he found himself besieged on all sides by the army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in March of 1836. The volleys from the Mexican army coming into the position within the confines of the Alamo were constant for more than a week as Travis and his rag tag band of Texians, including garrisons led by Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett, bravely held the city of San Antonio, giving Sam Houston time to raise the army that would ultimately defeat Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto in the following month.
Over the past three weeks or so, Cuomo has sustained a constantly-building bombardment of sexual harassment and assault accusations into his own position, along with damaging reports from a long-compliant and friendly news media and a growing chorus of demands for his resignation from Republicans in Albany, a chorus that has now been joined by fellow Democrats in the state and in congress. Through it all, Cuomo has held firm in his position that he will never resign, defending himself first with claims that he didn’t know his brutish actions had caused his army of female accusers any pain, and more lately simply denying any of it ever actually happened, and trying to paint himself as the victim here.
He repeated that latest lie again at a hastily-arranged press conference on Friday, as even his friends at the New York Times – who he’s always in the past been able to rely on to cover for him – continued their abandonment of him:
The governor responded with defiance — a surprise in a traditional political sense, given that other elected officials have resigned in the face of far less unanimous sentiment. But it also marked a return to form for the pugilistic governor, who last week had struck a more conciliatory, apologetic tone in addressing the harassment accusations.
In a hastily arranged news conference after the House members issued their calls, Mr. Cuomo quickly rejected the demands for him to step down, and denied harassing or abusing anyone. He lashed out at the lawmakers for jumping to conclusions, calling them “reckless and dangerous.”
“I did not do what has been alleged, period,” Mr. Cuomo said.
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What has been alleged, of course, is that Cuomo is a bully and serial abuser of women both in the workplace and out of it, preying in female staff, acquaintances and reporters alike. After an entire 30 year career in New York politics in which he has been coddled by the political class and protected by the press, Cuomo believes he is immune to being held accountable.
Gosh, so hard to see why he’d feel that way, right?
The latest episode of the Perils of Andrew began yesterday morning with yet another woman coming forward to accuse the brutish Governor of sexual assault, this time in the form of a former political reporter in Albany named Jessica Bakeman.
Ms. Bakeman accuses Cuomo of humiliating and inappropriately touching her on multiple occasions during the months in which she attempted to do her job of covering his administration.
From the story at the New York Post:
Jessica Bakeman says she was sexually harassed by Cuomo several times since the start of her journalism career in 2012.
In a first-person piece for New York Magazine, she described a 2014 holiday party in which the governor gripped her tightly as she went to say goodbye for the night.
“He took my hand, as if to shake it, then refused to let go,” Bakeman wrote. “He put his other arm around my back, his hand on my waist, and held me firmly in place while indicating to a photographer he wanted us to pose for a picture.”
Bakeman, who was 25 at the time and working for what is now Politico New York, said red flags went up, given her “job was to analyze and scrutinize him.”
“I didn’t want a photo of him with his hands on my body and a smile on my face,” she wrote. “But I made the reflexive assessment that most women and marginalized people know instinctively, the calculation about risk and power and self-preservation. I knew it would be far easier to smile for the brief moment it takes to snap a picture than to challenge one of the most powerful men in the country.”
Months into her professional career, Bakeman alleged Cuomo slid his arm around her shoulders while he told stories with her male colleagues at a party at the Executive Mansion for an outgoing communications aide.
“He left it there, and kept me pinned next to him, for several minutes as he finished telling his story,” she recalled of the alleged 2012 incident, when she worked for USA Today. “I stood there, my cheeks hot, giggling nervously as my male colleagues did the same. We all knew it was wrong, but we did nothing.”
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Yes, of course she and her reporter colleagues did nothing, because this was Andrew Cuomo and they had all no doubt been ordered by their editors to provide political cover for him. Thus empowered by his pals in the media, Cuomo, an obvious Clintonian narcissist, felt he could do whatever he wanted to do with cute young reporters like Ms. Bakeman. And who in Albany who mattered was going to argue with him? Certainly not any of his Democrat colleagues in the state assembly. So long as Cuomo was able to bully his myriad victims into silence, the press and his fellow Democrats remained silent, too.
But that’s all changed now, as several powerful state Dems, including the Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker – along with 55 additional Democrat members of the state senate and assembly – have come out to demand Cuomo’s resignation and even authorize the beginning of an impeachment investigation as the parade of accusing women has grown in numbers.
On Friday, in the wake of Bakeman’s newest charges, Cuomo’s Resignation Chorus grew to include most of the Democrats who make up the New York congressional delegation. The first hole in that dam appeared when despicable Jerrold Nadler issued a statement demanding the governor end the madness. Had it stopped with Nadler, there would have been no problem since no one actually has any respect for that little creep.
But the little leak that Nadler started quickly turned into a flood led by exactly who you’d expect if you’ve been paying any attention at all: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez:
Once AOC had weighed in, Cuomo’s dam of Democrat support completely burst, as a dozen or so more New York congressional dems followed like the sheep they really are, and the day concluded with this little joint missive from New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand:
So, as of this morning, Cuomo now retains the support of literally no one in the state of New York’s political structure. No Republicans, no key Democrats. None. Add to that the fact that he is no longer enjoying the mafia-racket-like protection of the New York Times and the rest of the national news media, and it becomes increasingly obvious that Cuomo’s defensive position is ultimately as untenable as that of Travis and his 180 or so Texian volunteers was in 1836.
The opposing army has breached the gates and is now pouring over the walls, and it seems just a matter of time – and not much of it – before the sordid political career of media darling Andrew Cuomo will reach an ignominious end.
Cool.
That is all.
An article that only mentions “bombardment of sexual harassment and assault accusations” is part of Cuomo’s defense.
Cuomo is more like Santa Anna. The Alamos are the nursing homes.
They’re using the “sexual assault” angle to deflect from the mass genocide that he performed at virtually every assisted care facility in the State of New York. The man is a murderer, I don’t care that he favors younger women. I kind of like women too, but what can I say, I’m a super straight kind of guy.
The Alinsky loberal fascist left have released the bimbo parade kraken.
No man on earth has ever survived it.
But Cuomo may be the exception.
They want Cupmp gone because his genocidal nursing home Covid 19 decisions will take down a lot of Dems and also cause the political destruction of Whitmer, Murphy, and others.
So now the protection of rather well worn, used and abused Dem pu$$ie is more important than geriatric genocide ?
Buahahahahahahahaha!
Cuomo is not going to resign, He is going to let the AG Investigation into the Nursing Home Death scandal take down a whole lot of Democrats with him.
Excellent!
DO NOR RESIGN MR. CUOMO. STICK IT TO THEM!
DISTRACTION DISTRACTION DISTRACTION
did I mention DISTRACTION he killed 10s of thousands of senior citizens. He gets the Hillary/Obama award for best Death Panel 2020.
Less Santa Anna, more Robespierre to my mind.
But tastes may vary. :-)
The Democrats are sure in a big hurry to get Cuomo off the state. Gee, I wonder why??
the fun thing about this sordid affair is that it is the Dems playing “El Deguello”.
“me too” beats “manslaughter” in the optics of the Uniparty...any day, any how
But..but..but... Gov. Nipplering earned his Emmy Award
More like the Bolsheviks charging the Winter Palace.
Hitler in his bunker as the Reds are closing in.
“They lose me right after the bunker scene.”
“I stood there, my cheeks hot, giggling nervously as my male colleagues did the same. We all knew it was wrong, but we did nothing.”
So she sat on this story for 9 years before she decided to complain. And with hot cheeks and a nervous giggle, she sounds like a young tootsie who liked it.
What was that Flip Wilson line, "the devil made me do it"?
^ The Book of Evil A-Z: Andrew-Zuckerberg
The Alamos? Gen. Travis, et al., defending more the one Alamo, were they?
Is Deep State filed under D or S...? 🤔
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