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A former aide to Andrew Cuomo accused the New York governor of sexual harassment back in December. On Wednesday, she wrote about it.
“Governor Andrew Cuomo has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected,” Lindsey Boylan, the former aide wrote in a post for the website Medium. “His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics. And if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences.”
Boylan alleged Cuomo “sexually assaulted me for year” in a series of tweets in December. She added that “many saw” Cuomo’s behavior toward her — which she said included unwanted kissing and touching — and simply did nothing.
Her post on Medium is the first time since making the accusations that she has gone into detail about them, saying that Cuomo once said to her, “Let’s play strip poker.” Boylan added that another former Cuomo aide confided that she, too, had experienced harassment from the governor.
“Last week, Assemblymember Ron Kim spoke out publicly about the intimidation and abuse he has faced from Governor Cuomo and his aides,” Boylan wrote. “As Mayor (Bill) de Blasio remarked, ‘The bullying is nothing new.’ There are many more of us, but most are too afraid to speak up.”
In one 2018 encounter, Boylan alleged, Cuomo kissed her without her consent while the two were alone in his New York City office.
“As I got up to leave and walk toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips. I was in shock, but I kept walking,” she wrote. “I left past the desk of Stephanie Benton. I was scared she had seen the kiss. The idea that someone might think I held my high-ranking position because of the Governor’s ‘crush’ on me was more demeaning than the kiss itself.”
I think Cuomo’s policy of putting coronavirus patients in nursing homes and killing the residents is more serious than sexual harassment.
Neither matters to the dems and/or leftists!
In typical Dem fashion he walks….no charges….fails to a higher level position. It’s the Dem way.
After Kavanaugh women do NOT matter. Ask Tara Reid. Enjoy the walk Andrew.
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I’m disappointed
I can’t believe a guy with pierced nipples would act in such a manner.
When Biden’s press secretary was asked if they still support Cuomo, her response, “I’ll have to circle back on you”…
In fairness to Jen Psaki, her response to every question is “I’ll have to circle back” unless the question is what is senile Joe’s favorite ice cream or how does he do playing his grandchildren in Mario Kart.
Cuomo would say the harassment was only innocent flirtation. For years he’s been well known for bullying with no consequences. He said Trump’s CDC was the cause of the nursing home deaths. I’m not aware of a case where pompous ass has ever taken responsibility for any wrong doing.
Can someone tell me whether or not we still #believeallwomen? Thanks in advance.
Only if it benefits the correct political side.
The only surprise here is that Fredo is raping a woman and not a little boy…
Cuomo is a bag of dirt, but this lady could be lying. It’s hard to know who to believe, the media needs to cover this more than they are.
There is a lot of blowback now but Cuomo continues to blame everyone but himself. He figures if he can delay anything happening on these accusations and the COVID problem in the nursing homes, eventually, it will all go away. Dems playbook when caught red handed…deny, deny, deny until it disappears.