Governor Cuomo has long portrayed himself as a model of ownership: a model of virtue, competence, and leadership. However, a completely different image of him now appears: that of a bully, a liar, and apparently a sexual bully.
The last position corresponds to his former Deputy Secretary of Economic Development, Lindsey Boylan, who is now running for the presidency of the Manhattan District.
In an essay of more than 1,700 words, she exposes gruesome details of how Cuomo looked at her from the very beginning; he “went out of his way” to touch her in the “lower back, arms, and legs”; asked him to play strip poker while flying home with “his taxpayer-funded plane”; and he blocked her exit from his office and kissed her “on the lips” without warning.
His piece, which provided email images and text to support his claims, endorsed the allegations he had first filed in December.
According to her, Cuomo’s abusive behavior was the same. When he mentioned strip poker, “it should have been impacted,” Boylan relates, “but I wasn’t.” The governor had “created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and sexual harassment are so pervasive” that it is “expected.”
The governor, he adds, uses “intimidation” to silence critics. Another woman told him she was also “afraid of what would happen” if she rejected his advances. When Boylan first filed his allegations in December, someone on the Cuomo team leaked parts of his confidential personnel file “in an effort to tarnish me.”
Yes, they are all allegations; Cuomo has every right to give his side of history. On the other hand, when Christine Blasey Ford accused then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the governor insisted that everyone believe her and that Kavanaugh take a lie detector test.
All right, Governor: Take a lie detector test.
Also, the pattern here is unequivocal: Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat, says Cuomo called him home and threatened to “destroy” him if he did not retract his charges against the governor. for misdemeanors in residences. Shortly afterwards, the governor began filing charges against Kim days later.
Others have also been featured: in The Post this week, Morgan Pehme revealed how Cuomo “terrorized” him in an attempt to suppress a story that would appear in City & State, where Pehme was editor. Karen Hinton, another former Cuomo aide, blows up Cuomo’s “penis policy.” Blasio’s mayor calls Kim’s account a “classic Cuomo” and adds that he knows “a lot of people” who have suffered similar abuse.
The Cuomo team’s order to send contagious COVID patients to nursing homes, which feed unnecessary deaths, is surely enough to question their stance as a competent “leader”. All the more reason to accuse.