On his last day in office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a three-term Democrat once envisioned as a national standard-bearer for his party, appeared alone.
Abandoned by virtually every political ally he once had, the governor held no public event on Monday, confining his lone appearance to a prerecorded farewell address where he defiantly cast his resignation as the unavoidable outcome of a rush to judgment on harassment allegations made against him.
Mr. Cuomo, seated by himself and staring into a camera, characterized a damning 165-page report by the state attorney general’s office as a “political firecracker on an explosive topic,” forcing his resignation and clearing the way for his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, to succeed him.
Ms. Hochul takes over as governor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to hold the state’s highest office and the first governor in more than a century to have deep roots in western New York. A ceremonial swearing-in event will be held Tuesday morning; she will then meet with leaders of the State Senate and Assembly, and make her first virtual address as governor at 3 p.m.
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Reap what you sew. Divisiveness. Public bashing of your enemies, including discord with the mayor of NYC. Trash talking the president. Then look for sympathy saying politics is a dirty business? Well, that can come back and bite you. Bye….
Andrew Cuomo doesn’t sew. His brother-in-law Kenneth Cole is the one who makes clothing.
Cuomo wasn’t that bad.
Well, didn’t posters here prove that Cuomo is long gone and his official departure is just show-and-tell?
It’s a lesson for Rosh Hashana.
Who would dreamed last Rosh Hashana when saying “Me Yisfal” that Cuomo would have that (very well deserved and then some) decree on him to such a degree.
Who even heard of Kathy Hochul to think she would be so “Me Yorim” as to become governor with zero effort on her part?
Who knows who will be decided this year?
Exactly. Kathy is 100 times worse than Cuomo. She is an evil tyrant from Upstate New York. She has good company in Kirsten Gillabrand.