Cuomo Accused of Unwanted Advance at a Wedding: ‘Can I Kiss You?

The New York Times ^ | March 1, 2021 | Matt Fleggenheimer

[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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[Clemenza]

And he remained a Chad even after wearing women’s pantyhose on national television: https://youtu.be/_BCWvH2ISyI

[alexander_busek]

“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.”

I believe that the word Ms. Ruch was looking for is "No!"

What, is she in 4th grade?

Regards,

[JohnnyP]

Thank you, I had to look it up. Farrah and Joe, Noxema shave cream commercial:
https://youtu.be/7ClijtnPkfU

[JohnnyP]

Dennis Prager has talked about the restraint it takes for men to not act on their natural impulses.

[ScubaDiver]

So now, heterosexual men can’t approach scantly-clad women and ask them if they’re interested in getting busy? Really?

And at the very same time people are railing against ‘toxic masculinity’ and essentially criminalizing heterosexual behavior, we’re mainstreaming gay throuples adopting children. This isn’t an accident.

Cuomo’s a dirtbag who should be in prison for the decision he made during the peak of the Wuhan Flu outbreak. But, some of these ‘sexual scandals’ that are being reported are BS. Yes, bosses shouldn’t be coming on to subordinate women, ever. But weddings? Puhleeze.

[Toespi]

What happened to the lingering sexual harassment complaints about Joe Biden? They just disappeared, so NOW the Democrats can have a redo and show they really do care about women and Cuomo gets to be the example.