It appears that ex New York Govern Andrew "Rat-Faced Andy" Cuomo is claiming that he has been "vindicated", and that he might run for office again.
He does not get it. He is a serial harasser, his enablers have been forced out in both government and in charities, and his relationships with the rest of the political establishment was a bully to a victim.
They aren't afraid of him any more, and if he tries to resurrect his career they are not going to be particularly supportive.
The fact that he has not been charged is largely an artifact that he is done as a politician. If he wants to change that, he's in for a world of hurt:
Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn’t ruling out another run for public office. He insists it’s too soon to talk about it.
Instead, he’s consumed by what he alleges are serious mistakes by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the independent lawyers who investigated the sexual harassment claims against him.
Her office determined the accounts of 11 different women were credible and that Cuomo “violated multiple federal and state harassment laws,” according to the Aug. 3 report. The findings were so damaging and explosive that Cuomo resigned weeks after the report’s release.
But if he had to do it all over, he wouldn’t have resigned, the former governor, 64, told Bloomberg News in a Friday telephone interview, one of a handful since leaving office. “I never resigned because I said I did something wrong. I said, I’m resigning because I don’t want to be a distraction,” Cuomo said.
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Since July, he’s spent more than $2 million from what’s now a $16.4 million campaign war chest on legal fees, public relations and other payments to staff. He’s still sending out press releases about political events and recently dined with New York City Mayor Eric Adams at Manhattan restaurant Osteria La Baia.
Of course Eric Adams is making nice with him, he's a pretty contemptible figure too.
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For now, Cuomo is preoccupied with James, who he blames for his downfall.
He said be believes her investigation was politically motivated and pointed to her brief run for governor, before dropping her campaign last December and deciding to run for re-election. Cuomo had initially referred the case to the AG’s office.
He's like an Italian version of Donald Trump, and it's pathetic.
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In truth, the New York DAs said they found the accounts of the women to be credible despite not pursuing criminal charges against Cuomo. The decision is “not an exoneration” of Cuomo, said DA Gregory Oakes in upstate Oswego County, noting that current New York statutes “fail to properly hold offenders accountable and fail to adequately protect victims.” On Long Island, former acting Nassau DA Joyce Smith concluded Cuomo’s behavior was “deeply troubling” but did not amount to a crime.
He's gone completely daft.
To quote Blackadder, "He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year’s Mr Madman competition."
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