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BRONX TIMES R 12 EPORTER, MARCH 5-11, 2021
FILE PHOTO: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a daily briefi ng following the
outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan in New York City, New York,
U.S., July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar
BY BRONX TIMES
Whether he wants to admit it,
Governor Andrew Cuomo is now in
the same place as Richard Nixon was
in the fi nal days of his presidential
tenure in August 1974, struggling
to keep his head afl oat amid a sea of
scandal that seems to grow higher by
the day.
For Cuomo, it began with the nursing
home death data controversy
that the governor admitted to messing
up from the start. But the sea really
bubbled over on the heels of accusations
made by three women in
the past week — two former Cuomo
aides, Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte
Bennett; and Anna Ruch, a guest at
a wedding reception Cuomo attended
— that the governor made unwanted
advances toward them.
Cuomo hasn’t addressed the media
since Feb. 22.
Except for communications via
press release, we’re all getting the silent
treatment from a governor who
had been a regular fi xture on television
for the better part of the year.
Now he’s off camera stewing over
scandal.
Where does Cuomo go from here,
other than home?
The third report about Ruch’s account
propelled prominent Democrats
on Monday night to call for
Cuomo’s resignation — and those
calls fi gure to grow even louder from
within the party.
Republicans are ready to dance
on Cuomo’s political grave for many
of the same sins (negligence and inappropriate
behavior) their defeated
former president committed, which
they ignored the last four years.
The state budget deadline is in
less than a month. New York is getting
off the mat from the worst pandemic
in a century that cost lives
and tens billions of dollars. To state
the obvious, this is a horrifi c time
for New Yorkers to have an absentee,
scandal-ridden chief executive running
the show.
It’s checkmate for Cuomo. There
are no more moves left for him to
play.
Lawmakers will not work with
him the same way as before; he has
no leverage left. His odds of re-election
to an unprecedented fourth term
in 2022 are growing longer by the
day.
Any gambit he may take for personal
survival in offi ce would only
delay the important work to rebuild
New York — and risk the Governor’s
Mansion falling into the hands of a
Trump-loving Republican who’ll cut
New York City off from the support it
requires from Albany.
For over 10 years, Cuomo has
claimed to “work for the people.”
Now he must get out of the way in order
for that work to continue.
Checkmate for Cuomo
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