PUBLISHED 8:11 PM ET Feb. 26, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:11 PM EST Feb. 26, 2021
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A former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lindsey Boylan, accused the governor of
sexual harassment earlier this week, but since this news broke, a few top Democrats on both the state and federal level have been silent.
One of the state’s most prominent female Democrats, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on Thursday, a day after this news broke, denied that she had read Boylan’s personal accounting of the governor’s alleged sexual harassment. I have not read her allegations or her post, her Medium post, but as I said, everyone has a right to be able to come forward and speak their truth and be heard, Sen. Gillibrand said. And that is true for her and that is also true for Gov. Cuomo.
Grimes, the city attorney, said one of Mayor Castor’s changes would be to have a recently hired attorney for the city work as the new CRB attorney.
Councilman Luis Viera proposed that the city hire an independent attorney to work approximately 10 hours a month as the CRB attorney, calling it a “common sense approach.” However, his proposal lost on a 5-2 vote.
The board did vote to give themselves the power to select the majority of the members of the CRB (Seven – one for each member of the council) and to give the mayor the power to appoint four members. However, after the vote, Grimes said that change could only come from Mayor Castor (during the meeting activists mentioned how city councils or county commissions in other Florida communities that have citizen review boards choose the majority of their members).