Posted on 08/12/2021 4:45:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to a report issued by the attorney general of the state of New York last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was busy issuing sweeping new protections against the sexual harassment of women around the time that Harvey Weinstein ceased to be a Hollywood mega-figure and became a widely known sexual predator. Today, Harvey is serving a 23-year sentence for various felonies, and he faces still more felonies in California.
Now Cuomo is undergoing a similar transformation. A year ago, he was spoken of as a rising presidential contender. Now he is spoken of as a sexual predator. What happened? Well, New York state Attorney General Letitia James was confronted by dozens of women who had experienced the governor's unwanted charms, and while he was not as rapacious as Weinstein, he did take liberties with some of the women he encountered. For instance, a female state trooper whom he had moved to his gubernatorial detail with apparent ulterior motives in mind. According to The New York Times, on one occasion he positioned himself in such a way as to kiss her "belly." What happened after that I am not privy to, but it probably did run athwart of the governor's protections against sexual harassment of women. The ones he was issuing as Weinstein's luck ran out.
I have always had a warm spot in my heart for the first Cuomo governor. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo was an eloquent speaker, a relative moderate in politics, and while in office, he was willing to enter into correspondence with unlikely people: for instance, with me. We exchanged letters amusingly until I committed a faux pas. Namely, I concluded every paragraph in a short piece on a subject long forgotten with the name of a choice Italian pasta: linguini, rigatoni or fettuccini. That went too far. My epistolary friendship with Mario Cuomo was finito. He did not accuse me of racism. The term racism was rarely used in those days. But he did take umbrage. Enough said. Still, I rather liked him.
I have not made that mistake with his son Andrew Cuomo. He is obviously a leftist variety of the opportunistic sort. He goes with the flow. If he sensed a vegetarian current were strong in the Democratic Party, he would be eating carrots with breakfast and beef and potatoes during a surreptitious dinner.
It is very amusing how many leading female Democrats have been in his corner until recently. Representatives of the #MeToo movement have been for him, according to The New York Times. The Times also reports that he has had leaders of the Time's Up movement consulting him. According to the Times, "In interviews, several sexual assault survivors questioned why the Time's Up leaders were advising the governor on his response at all." I shall hazard a guess. Andrew Cuomo was the Democratic establishment's rising candidate until very recently. That means he had the feminists with him, the Black leadership, the unions, transgender people. You name it. Now they are all drifting away. Is he about to become just another sexual predator rejected by the party of the people? We shall see.
But opportunism is not the only difference between Andrew and Mario. There is cruelty in his treatment of women. His father was never accused of that. Moreover, there is bullying. I am unaware of any bullying by Mario Cuomo, and he certainly never prided himself in it. Andrew Cuomo seems to take pride in bullying people. Months ago, when he was still taking bows for his handling of the pandemic crisis, he threatened to "destroy" state Assemblyman Ron Kim for Kim's handling of what was becoming a spiraling nursing home crisis. Andrew has threatened opponents for years. He has shouted at employees, and now he is hiring lawyers.
Frankly, it is difficult for me to see him getting out of the pickle he is in. Republicans naturally are calling for his scalp. Now Democrats are hostile to him, many of them influential Democrats. Even President Joe Biden wants him out. How long can he hang in there?
Yet what I want to know is why he had to bully and harass the women that have turned on him. Why could he not send some of them flowers or a polite note asking the lady who caught his eye to dinner? How about to a nice Italian restaurant for a nice linguini dinner or rigatoni and a glass of wine, possibly Chianti? I think his father would agree with me this time. Italian cuisine is the best.
Andrew Cuomo Is in a Pickle.
And will soon be unemployed. Couldn’t happen to a better guy. 😱
He’s eligible for a $50,000/yr pension.
Mario Cuomo was a rabid leftist who disguised his politics in the language of Catholicism. Mario hated America just as much as his fellow communists, but the times were different, and communists are brilliant at knowing how much they can get away with, and how much needs to be disguised.
This article demonstrates the cluelessness of our side. Andrew was an entitled red diaper baby. There was no difference between Mario and Andrew except the amount of phoniness required to help advance the cause of communism and destroying America. Communists, having no conscience, are great at faking sincerity.
Tyrell’s heart is in the right place, but he is not very bright. And like so many others on our side, he takes things at face value which are contradicted by what is actually happening.
The Cuomos are a perfect example and reflection of how the communists came to be in control of a Christian, conservative country over the course of many decades.
Excellent post...and 100% spot-on.
Sadly, many freepers have yet to grasp the reality you elucidated so factually.
S what is happening with the fovernors of NJ, MI, and PA? Both Cuomo and Newsome are getting out with no investigation of nursing home deaths. Will this be simply swept under the rug wherever it happened?
In a pickle over his pickle…
That sounds pretty low. I'd bet it's much more than that.
Wonder what his current salary is?
Is it a pickle, or a salami?
According to Forbes, his 2021 annual salary is $250,000
(That does not include kickbacks and bribes)
He'll surely be sued civilly...and every one of them will be settled quietly...with a non disclosure clause.
The only question that remains is...will he ever run for office again?
Don’t forget the 50% for “The Big Guy”.
——Will this be simply swept under the rug——
Although I don’t watch the news any more, it is my understanding that Janice Dean the Fox and Friends weather girl and possibly others, have brought a lawsuit against Cuomo.
That lawsuit and potentially others may be the reason for the Democrat change of heart. They needed him gone
It never happened, Citizen.
See tagline...
It was his pickle that got him into trouble in the first place!..................
Cocktail weenie.......................
"The words of enemies make you laugh, but the words of friends make you cry".
If he runs for NYC Mayor he’ll win easily. The media will claim he’s changed, learned his lesson etc., and then attack his opponents.
Is it a pickle, or a salami?
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Neither. It’s a prickle.
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