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In reply to the discussion: Why are Cuomo's accusers all piling on just now? They've [View all]Celerity
(44,442 posts)do the right thing. I am not going to get involved in creative speculation, nor will I be swayed by attempts to pick out one single things and then attempted to make that the principal driver to play problematic framing games with, such as occurred with Gillibrand and Franken (and the dismissal of the other 7 women there). If it was just Tweeden and Tweeden alone, Franken would still be a Senator, and if you remove Gillibrand and keep all the other factors the same, he still would have resigned. The same for Boylan and Cuomo (with the other similarity being the attempted dismissal of the nursing home scandal as either false, or simply irrelevant, which it is neither of those things as far as I can tell).
Cuomo has apparently made a lot of enemies in NY politics, many of them, unfortunately for him, from his own party. Many of them have long-held resentments about how he kept Republics in power in the NY State Senate via the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a breakaway faction that caucused with the Republicans, thus blocking many things that a Dem-controlled Senate would have passed (we had the lower house already). When all this first started breaking (about the nursing home scandal alone, this was well before any sex harassment had come up), I watched a lot of Democratic NY state assembly members really go off about that and other heavy-handed tactics he used, including threatening the family of a Asian female (from Chinatown in Manhattan) Assemblywoman (Yuh-Line Niou). I sensed he was already in a bit of trouble back then.
I am just sitting back and seeing how it plays out, I have no true dog in this fight, as I am not a NY'er, and it is mainly about NY politics.