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governor patterson ends up not running for another term. andrew cuomo steps up, he wins the democratic nomination to run for governor of new york in 2010 after that mess from the two previous democratic governors. in order to actually ascend to the top job, though, cuomo had to go through the general election, right? and he had to defeat the guy the republicans had nominated for governor that year. that candidate was named carl paladino. carl palladino, during his complain, was found to have had a frequent habit of circulating wildly racist and profoundly profoundly i mean profoundly pornographic emails to a surprising large number of political pals. i ll tell you just from a personal perspective or pulling back the curtain here a little p bit, the carl paladino pornography email scandal in
reynolds seat by a huge margin. chris lee was a vocal anti-gay, anti-abortion republican, a married family values kind of guy who really campaigned on io that as one of the reasons he should be in congress. he voted against the repeal of d don t ask, don t tell, about gay people serving openly in the military. he voted against the fair pay act for women getting equal paya but even though chris lee was this up-and-coming conservative republican from a totally safe republican seat in new york, hi- time in congress ended up being short-lived.bl because just a month into his second term in congress chris lee abruptly resigned after this photo of him surfaced. oh, what are you doing with your hand? turns out family man chris lee was soliciting women for sex on craigslist, yes, craigslist
redistricting in the 2012 elections. again it s still very much a republican seat and she loses that seat after one term to another republican man, a man r named chris collins. oh, remember him? chris collins would go to pick up the baton from badly behaving republican men from this one single congressional district. chris collins ended up getting arrested while serving in congress, indicted on 11 felony charges for an alleged insider trading scheme. he pled guilty. he was sentenced to multiple years in federal prison before he was ultimately pardoned by president trump because he s a republican who supported president trump. but that s just origin story j number one for the woman who s about to become the new governor of new york. this congressional seat with skid marks all over it from ther felonies and sex scandals and child sex abuse scandals of all the men who held it other than her. meanwhile in 2014 having survived her brief tumble in
and how kathy hochul got to this point in her career turns out to be a path paved with just an astonishing number of men behaving astonishingly badly in power, getting caught and thereby being forced out of offices they would have otherwise preferred to hold onto. i mean first just stick with that one congressional seat for a second, right? there s mark foley, the guy ma sending sexually explicit message to minors. the incumbent in that seat in new york tied into the mark foley scandal, his career sort a of ends in disgrace then there s the shirtless tiny fist flexor s guy, chris lee whose career ends in disgrace. then kathy hochul gets that seat. d it s a seat no democrat had any business winning. but she wins it in large part wi thanks from those scandals from her republican predecessors. she holds that seat for that term without any scandals of her own, which is a notable thing in that case. but then that district gets caught upt in a bit of