The governor of New York has resigned following an avalanche of criticism from all sides after a damning investigative report was released by the attorney general of the state of New York Letitia James that he was a serial abuser of women.
I have to admit that I was surprised by the resignation. Cuomo has the reputation of being a ruthless bare-knuckle political infighter and I expected him to put pressure on state legislators to not remove him by impeachment. I can only surmise that he has found that he does not have enough support among them to win that fight or that more revelations are on the way of even more serious allegations.
I assume he finally figured out that he had no chance of making it through the impeachment trial. That’s what usually convinces people to resign.
His father, Mario, was a good governor and a good human being. What a disgrace his son is. I’m glad he’s not alive to see this.
Also, don’t blame me -- I voted for Cynthia Nixon.
Can he be impeached after he resigns?
I hope he gets sued to bits.
It pisses me off that his fate was even in doubt.
good riddance to gov. “coooomo” as the revurundh Jackson would say. and Mario was also a liberal wacko nutjob.
@#3, jrkrideau: I don’t think so. I just listened to a lawyer read the statute and it sounds to me like you have to be in office. Link to the podcast, it’s Opening Arguments and this is the episode. Please note the episode just dropped, so they did not yet know he was going to resign. https://openargs.com/oa515-who-governs-the-governors/