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Cuomo’s Career Might Actually be Over.
With the entirety of New York’s Democratic Party machine against him, will he finally resign?
As a resident of New York who also happens to work in healthcare, I have been following the scandals surrounding Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic and sexual harassment allegations closely. For a while, even with calls for his resignation intensifying among state legislators, I was skeptical about how effective they would be in getting a man who with such influence over perhaps the most significant Democratic party machine in the entire country to step down. That said, after the most recent developments it seems increasingly likely that there’s only a matter of time before he is forced out of office.
Not only has he faced calls to resign from a number of prominent state legislators within his own party, but a majority of federal congressional lawmakers from the state have now called for his resignation in what is clearly a coordinated, unified stance against his continued leadership in the state. Following their lead — and after Lindsey Boylan vowed to find primary challengers for their seats if their silence continued — Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have now called for him to step down as well.
