Cuomo’s refusal to resign follows his past calls for other alleged transgressors to do so, critics note

One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s harshest critics blasted the governor once more Sunday, implying he was a hypocrite for refusing to resign after going through extra accusations of sexual harassment that introduced Cuomo’s listing of accusers to at least five women.

Republican U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis famous in a Twitter put up that Cuomo referred to calls for his departure “undemocratic,” regardless of having referred to as for other New York officers to step down following their very own alleged transgressions.

The sexual harassment scandals Malliotakis cited in her tweet concerned the next officers: Vito Lopez, who resigned from the New York state Assembly in 2013; Dennis Gabryszak, who resigned from the state Assembly in January 2014; and Micah Kellner, a New York state Assembly member and onetime aide to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer who declined to search reelection in 2014 after allegations in opposition to him.

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Daily Beast editor Harry Siegel additionally famous that Cuomo in 2018 had referred to as on then-state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to resign after Schneiderman confronted sexual harassment allegations that had been detailed in a New Yorker journal article.

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Last week the top of a state-government watchdog group additionally referred to as out Cuomo for not leaving workplace regardless of demanding that others do so.

“Shouldn’t the governor, the most powerful official in New York, be held to at least the same ethical standard as an Assembly member?” John Kaehny, govt director of Reinvent Albany (New York’s capital metropolis), told the New York Post.

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“Not so long ago, Governor Cuomo demanded that two Assembly members ‘immediately deny’ allegation of sexual harassment or resign,” Kaehny added. “Powerful words. Does the governor hold himself to the same standard?”

“Shouldn’t the governor, the most powerful official in New York, be held to at least the same ethical standard as an Assembly member?”

— John Kaehny, govt director, Reinvent Albany

Earlier Sunday, Cuomo defiantly declared he wasn’t leaving workplace.

“I was elected by the people of the state,” Cuomo stated, responding in a convention name with reporters to the most recent allegations in opposition to him. “I’m not going to resign because of allegations. There is no way I resign.” 

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The governor and his spokespeople have insisted that he’s harmless of wrongdoing, with Cuomo expressing remorse that some feedback to his accusers could have been misinterpreted.

Here are the remarks Cuomo made concerning the past scandals involving other New York officers:

On Schneiderman: “No one is above the law, including New York’s top legal officer,” Cuomo stated about Schneiderman in May 2018, according to Deadline. “I will be asking an appropriate New York district attorney to commence an immediate investigation, and proceed as the facts merit. My personal opinion is that, given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the [New Yorker magazine] article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as attorney general, and for the good of the office, he should resign.”

Schneiderman in the end averted prices after being cleared by a Cuomo-appointed particular prosecutor, NPR reported.

On Lopez: “The reaction here should be sure and swift and unequivocal,” Cuomo stated about Lopez in May 2013, according to the Albany Times Union. “Resign. If you don’t resign, we’ll expel because we will not allow that to occur in this chamber. Period.”

“Sexual harassment at the workplace cannot be tolerated in any shape or form,” Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto added on the time, according to the New York Post. “These are serious allegations and if true, the governor believes he should resign.”

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Lopez resigned in 2013 and was fined a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars}, then died of most cancers in 2015, the Post reported.

On Gabryszak and Kellner: Cuomo gave each Democrats the selection both to resign “immediately deny” the sexual harassment accusations they confronted, Politico reported.

Gabryszak in the end stepped down in 2014, after seven ladies filed lawsuits in opposition to him, although not all had been profitable, the Post reported. He was later fined $125,000 in a settlement in 2019, the report stated.

Kellner didn’t resign however was sanctioned by the state Assembly and stripped of his committee chair posts and banned from having interns. He declined to run once more in 2014, the Post reported.