Albany’s top leaders fell silent on Saturday afternoon as two more women stepped forward to claim that Governor Andrew Cuomo had behaved inappropriately with them.
State Senator Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) did not immediately support her stance days earlier, when she said the governor should resign if a fourth accuser appears.
The number of accusers is now five, including four women who had worked for the governor.
“I think it would be time to fire any other people,” Stewart-Cousins said Thursday.
Assemblyman Mike Lawler, (R-Rockland County), hurried to call the Senate leader.
“@AndreaSCousins we now have five accusers denouncing predatory sexual behavior by our state’s highest elected officials, one more than the red line you set two days ago. It’s time. The people of the state of New York deserves nothing less. To demand his resignation ” Lawler tweeted.
A message to Stewart-Cousins did not return immediately.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx) also kept his mother in the hours after former Albanian aide Ana Liss and Karen Hinton, Cuomo’s former aide to the Department of Housing, showed up. and U.S. Urban Development.
Others were more direct.
“He Toasted,” Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, (D-Westchester) he tweeted from the governor.
“Cuomo must resign or we must accuse him. The harm and damage it has caused must end. I ask that my colleagues have the strength to speak up and the will to act. ” has tweeted Councilor Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan).
Queens Assembly member Ron Kim, who was receiving angry phone calls from the governor after Kim’s criticism of the administrations that handled the residency scandal, repeated his own call for dismissal.
“Cuomo’s reign of corruption, his vile abuse of power, his destruction of people’s lives can end if our state legislature has the courage to denounce,” Kim tweeted.
