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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at his office on March 24, 2021 in New York City. | Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images
Cuomo’s Albany dominance takes backseat to political survival
Cuomo is spending his days trying to reframe the now-tarnished narrative of his tenure as he faces the single greatest threat to his decades-long political career.
ALBANY, N.Y. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s once iron grip on Albany is slipping as he tries to fight off calls for his resignation and contend with multiple investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct.
The state budget is five days late and counting an Albany tradition of tardiness that Cuomo, a three-term Democrat, had long boasted of ending. And as details of the roughly $200 billion spending plan begin to emerge this week, the expanded influence of legislative leaders and rank-and-file progressives is hard to miss.
The unravelling of Andrew Cuomo After a rapid ascent, the New York governor now stands accused of sexual harassment and understating the Covid death toll in state nursing homes.
A billboard urging Cuomo to resign in Albany, New York. Last spring, Andrew Cuomo, the domineering 63-year-old governor of New York currently serving his third term, was hailed as one of the heroes of the pandemic, as “America’s governor”, he was inspiring people to declare themselves “Cuomosexuals”. True, he did delay a shelter-in-place order when news of the virus in New York first hit; his political foe, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, wanted to impose one in mid-March, but Cuomo said that fear and panic were bigger problems than the virus. Cuomo is ultimately responsible for executing the state’s laws (not to mention implementing executive orders and setting up the state budget), and so New York stayed open longer than it should have.
17 Mar 2021
New York State Assembly leaders on Wednesday announced the independent law firm assisting their impeachment inquiry against embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who refuses to step down in the wake of multiple scandals rocking his administration.
Speaker Carl Heastie and Judiciary Committee Chair Charles D. Lavine, both Democrats, announced the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will be assisting the members in conducting an impeachment inquiry into Cuomo, who continues to face mounting allegations of sexual harassment and assault. A press release of the announcement describes the firm as having “expertise in sensitive investigations.”
“Their team, including Angela Burgess, Greg Andres and Martine Beamon, will work with Assemblymember Lavine and the Assembly Judiciary Committee to lead the investigation,” the release reads, adding that they are “authorized to vigorously pursue all the evidence to determine the extent to which violations of the law have occurred
15 Mar 2021
Fifty percent of New Yorkers believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) should not resign amid dueling accusations of sexual misconduct and his administration’s coronavirus nursing home cover-up, according to a Siena College Research Institute poll released Monday, down five percentage points from March 4, 2021.
In a poll released on March fourth by Quinnipiac University, 55 percent of respondents said Andrew Cuomo should not resign, five percentage points higher than Monday’s poll.
The Siena poll also discovered that 57 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with how Cuomo has addressed the alleged wrongdoing.
That poll number is better than his previous metric, when only 27 percent said that they were “satisfied with Governor Cuomo’s explanation and apology regarding the sexual harassment allegations made against him.”