Schumer’s unwillingness to call on Cuomo to resign sets him apart from a ballooning number of prominent local Democrats who say it’s time for the governor to go.
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When former U.S. Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, made the decision to resign in January 2018, the spotlight turned to his party, which turned out to be bitterly divided over his fate. In the wake of mounting allegations of sexual harassment, many prominent Democrats had called for him to step down, and they were led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, who has championed women’s rights causes in the Senate. In her letter demanding his resignation, she linked his actions to the “painful” but necessary “reckoning” occurring at the time, calling it a “watershed moment bigger than any one industry, any one party, or any one person.”
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