Now up to three accusers against Gov. Cuomo for inappropriate behavior. NYT has the latest. Not looking good for him on top of the retirement home deaths scandal.
The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. Ruch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words about her friends. But what happened next instantly unsettled her: Mr. Cuomo put his hand on Ms. Ruch’s bare lower back, she said in an interview on Monday.
When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. Ruch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed “aggressive” and placed his hands on her cheeks. He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. Ms. Ruch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.
Ms. Ruch’s account comes after two former aides accused Mr. Cuomo of sexual harassment in the workplace, plunging his third term into turmoil as the governor’s defenders and Mr. Cuomo himself strain to explain his behavior.
Fortunately I don’t think he had any ambitions to higher office at this point, and I’m pretty sure he stood no chance in getting elected for a fourth term. The only real question to me at this point is whether he can/will be recalled. I don’t see him resigning.
This is just a weaker form of the claim that opposition to Israel’s policies is inextricably tied to anti-semitism, with the arrow running in the other direction. I get that you believe it, but I don’t see any good reason to believe it. There are lots of people very strongly opposed to Israeli policies who can’t reasonably be tarred as anti-semites, as one could learn by, I don’t know, reading some Israeli newspapers?
Nesrie
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He didn’t, but a few others wanted him to run because, checks notes, he spent a week talking like a normal person with a mic and camera in front of him instead of the crazy stuff our talking yam went off on. And apparently some of what he was reporting was… lies. So yeah, in the GOP this stuff might fly but Cuomo seems like toast to me, extra crispy.
Yeah, it reminded me of the adoration for Avenatti when he was tweaking Trump. I never understood the love for him last year for what I perceived as a really poor Coronavirus response at an admittedly difficult time to get it right.
Nesrie
4196
I think it was joy of seeing someone go after Trump for… whatever reason. I kind of remember Timex being the first or at least the most verbal to point out his scent of sleeze on him.
Timex
4197
I feel like everyone knew he was sleazy, they just were blinded by hope that someone was gonna take down Trump.
Someone pointed out, maybe Popehat, that GOOD lawyers aren’t generally the folks who hold press conferences. We saw the same thing with that one lawyer representing some of the other accusers, I think… like the one who eventually pulled out. Some big name lawyer who has taken a bunch of high profile cases from female clients.
There are a group of high priced lawyers who are in it to make a name for themselves… and those lawyers are generally trash.
Nesrie
4198
I suppose a lawsuit could have stuck something on him, but I wanted Trump to lose the election to prove that his mentality is not the majority… and he did lose. One lawyer wasn’t going to give us that, not even a bad one, but the lawyer had the same entertainment value that the networks seem to crave… over actual news.
Matt_W
4200
I’m a fan of Yglesias. I even pay now to get his blog in my email inbox every morning. And I kind of see the political calculus behind what he’s saying, which would be totally valid if the Republican Party wasn’t, you know, the Republican Party. But it is, and Kasich would only be a marginal improvement over whatever knuckle-dragger the GOP will nominate, and would mostly rubber-stamp most of the terribleness of the GOP agenda, just as the other so-called moderate GOP Senators do.
Is that nanny state liberal bullshit, or a critical mass of city councilmembers whose brothers-in-law own repair shops and/or dealerships?
Bullshit of the highest order either way, obviously.
Timex
4204
Looking at the actual law, it seems like it’s a posterchild for bad laws… it has stuff in there like, “You can do minor repairs, but not if you use tools ‘not normally found in a residence’”.
What counts as “normally found in a residence”?
Because someone who actually does work on their own car… probably has a LOT of tools that “normal” people don’t have. Because having specialized tools makes doing any job easier.
ShivaX
4205
Hard to say, but it’s Sacramento so I figured it probably qualified.
But really those two things are intrinsically linked in my experience. It’s half Karens who hate their neighbors and things they do and half people trying to damage their competition. It’s basically HOAs turned into government power.
Sharpe
4206
Yeah, as a Sacramento resident, I have to say that is pure crazytown BS.
Here’s the justification they give on the code enforcement website: "The chemicals involved in automobile repair can pollute our neighborhoods and endanger the health and well being of our residents.
Furthermore, this kind of activity increases vehicle traffic and the visual impact can negatively impact property values." (bold added)
Wow, it’s nanny, it’s NIMBY, it’s…
Yeah, NO.
Timex
4207
It’s similar to crap you see in home owner’s associations, which I definitely would not want to be part of.
Sharpe
4208
On the other hand, this apparently became law in 2019 and I haven’t even noticed it at all. I don’t do my own car repair these days but still it seems like a terrible law. Maybe in an urban area like Sacramento, so few people do home auto repair that it just hasn’t had much impact?
I do recall growing up in rural northern CA, in a very small town, and home auto repair was a constant. My family and I all did oil changes, battery replacement, spark plug changes, all sorts of minor and even some major repairs at home. But since I’ve lived in the big city, I haven’t done any car repair myself at all.
I hadn’t really thought about that in decades but it’s actually a significant lifestyle change. I wonder how common that is.
Matt_W
4209
FWIW, almost everyone I know who changes their own oil walks over to the closest storm drain, looks both ways to be sure no one is looking, and then pours the used oil down there. Or they find an empty lot and pour it on the ground. (Any auto shop will take used oil for free.) Fucking assholes ruin shit for everyone.
