Posted on 03/01/2021 5:13:15 PM PST by KingofZion
Anna Ruch had never met Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019. Her first impression was positive enough.
The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. Ruch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words about her friends. But what happened next instantly unsettled her: Mr. Cuomo put his hand on Ms. Ruch’s bare lower back, she said in an interview on Monday.
When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. Ruch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed “aggressive” and placed his hands on her cheeks. He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. Ms. Ruch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.
“I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed,” said Ms. Ruch, whose recollection was corroborated by the friend, contemporaneous text messages and photographs from the event. “I turned my head away and didn’t have words in that moment.”
Ms. Ruch’s account comes after two former aides accused Mr. Cuomo of sexual harassment in the workplace, plunging his third term into turmoil as the governor’s defenders and Mr. Cuomo himself strain to explain his behavior.
*** Ms. Ruch’s example is distinct from those of the former aides: A former member of the Obama administration and the 2020 Biden campaign, Ms. Ruch has never been employed by the governor or the state. But her experience reinforces the escalating concerns and accusations about Mr. Cuomo’s personal conduct — a pattern of words and actions that have, at minimum, made three women who are decades his junior feel deeply uncomfortable, in their collective telling.
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I don’t think DiBlasio has that kind of political clout. Yet.....
In this case, I have to defend Governor Cuomo. It’s called making a move. The problem is that it might be creepy for him to do it because he is an older guy hitting on a young woman.
Cuomo is doing a good job of changing the subject from killing nursing home residents.
The funny thing is the liberal friends I keep around on Facebook who were screaming stop Kav Have been completely silent on this. I’m sure they know about it, but for whatever reason they don’t feel the need to comment.
HUH... heels up harris
This is just distraction from the thousands that died because of his mismanagement and subsequent lying. That’s the true criminality they want covered up.
Number three...
‘Gov. Solazzo is so ugly’
A cross between Solazzo and Moe Sizlak.
They know if they don't take him out for something else the nursing home scandal will devour him and half a dozen other Democrat governors.
This kind of two-bit stuff is a diversion for the fact that he ought to be up on manslaughter charges for 10s of thousands of elderly he killed with Covid (and often ventilators to finish them off) last winter.
The power behind the dem party has decided he must go and the bimbos were activated. They will replace him with someone worse.
The 15th.
But living with Sandra Lee at the time.
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