On Sunday, one of the most powerful Democrat lawmakers in New York issued a statement calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been ensnared by two major scandals, to resign from office, Fox News reports.
Cuomo is facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment and a federal probe into his administration’s tally on COVID-19 deaths tied to nursing homes.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, said in a statement that the allegations are “drawing away from the business of government.”
“New York is still in the midst of the pandemic and is still facing the societal, health and economic impacts of it [the virus],” she said. “We need to govern without daily distraction. For the good of the state Governor Cuomo must resign.”
The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, reported that Cuomo had a brief phone conversation with Stewart-Cousins and told her that he would not quit and that if they want him out of office, they would need to impeach him.
Since the statement from Stewart-Cousins, more lawmakers from the state have stepped forward and are calling for his resignation, Fox News reported.
According to a tally from Fox News, a total of 37 lawmakers from either the Assembly or state Senate want him to resign, and 10 have called for impeachment.
To impeach the sitting governor, the Assembly needs a majority vote in the 150-member body, and the state Senate—where there would be a conviction—would need a two-thirds majority of court members that would consist of both senators and judges from the state’s court of appeals.
Cuomo has flatly denied some of the allegations against him and his office has denied altering the count of nursing home deaths.
He insisted on Sunday that he continues to be focused on the state’s COVID-19 response and vaccination effort, and said he would not be “distracted” by the allegations.
“I was elected by the people of the state, not by politicians,” Cuomo told reporters Sunday. “I’m not going to resign because of allegations. The premise of resigning because of allegations is actually anti-democratic.”
So many died because he insisted patients with covid be put in nursing homes where they infected others who died in hospitals. In hospitals their deaths were not added to nursing home death totals. There was a ship called comfort, sent by pres trump to house patients, that cuomo refused to use. So the hospital ship sat empty as people died. Cuomo bragged how he didnt need G-d, and said other things about how how he was in charge not Hashem. So cuomo is getting shown that he is not in charge. Cuomo caused thousands of death. He should be… Read more »
Arrogant coumo your time has expired you did a poor job as a governor, how can you let so many people die and still deny it. Shame on you
but when it comes to sexual harassment, it goes beyond politics. Women must be supported from all parties and all politicians. Women’s voices must be heard and believed. Cuomo should resign.
I am a member of the democratic party and I call for Cuomo’s resignation.
And not a word when thousands died n the nursing homes.
Not excusing Cuomo, I’m no fan, but I am no fan of suddenly righteous Republican lawmakers who demand Cuomo’s resignation, Trump did much more damage and horrible things to myriad women. All the GOP dudes excused him and didn’t impeach him when given the opportunity to do so, twice.
Well said, thank you for bringing this up.
Did you not read the first paragraph? Democrats are calling for his resignation, too!