“It’s one of the reasons she was so focused on her own fundraising right away,” a Hochul adviser says. Hochul’s camp has operated all along with the assumption that it would need to fend off a challenge from Cuomo, who left office with $18 million in his campaign account. (A CNN spokesman declined to comment on the suit to The New York Times.) I know because my family paid the price for them being afraid of cancel culture.” Unmentioned was that younger brother Chris Cuomo was fired, in part, CNN said at the time, for advising Andrew during the sexual harassment scandal also unmentioned was that just this week, Chris sued the network for $125 million. “Even the billionaire media-owner big shots: John Malone, John Stankey, David Zaslav. “Even the big shots-CNN, AT&T, Time Warner, and Discovery-they’re afraid of the cancel culture,” Cuomo said, his voice rising. But in his telling, Cuomo was hardly the only victim. But the ex-governor’s presence was also a sign that his attempt at a comeback is starting mostly on the political margins, even among New York’s communities of color.Ĭuomo-looking thinner, his shirt collar a bit loose-devoted a large section of his comments to a pitch for amending the state’s recent bail-reform measures, which he had helped craft as governor a little more than two years ago, and called “the most historic criminal justice reform in the modern history of the state.” The rest of his speech, and his answers to questions afterward, tracked fairly closely with what Cuomo said almost two weeks ago at a small Brooklyn church, in his first public appearance since resigning last August: that he’d been driven from the job by “cancel culture” and “extremists,” not by the results of a five-month investigation conducted by the office of New York attorney general Letitia James, a probe Cuomo himself had requested. Cuomo-in his speech to the crowd of about 100, many of them ministers and parishioners-spun his willingness to work with Diaz over the years, despite their stark philosophical differences, as an admirable sign of “tolerance,” a quality, he said, that is too often lacking in politics. Diaz, who was wearing a bright burgundy cowboy hat, is president of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, which is headquartered at the Christian Community Neighborhood Church he is also a former city councilman and former state senator.
Ruben Diaz, one of the state’s most controversial, most conservative Democrats: His clergy group lists its top priorities as opposing same-sex marriage, legalized abortion, and the distribution of birth control in schools. Cuomo, though, is in political exile, so he was grinning and trading jokes with the Rev. Patrick’s Day parades and drinking green beer. Most of the state’s other big Democrats were downtown yesterday morning, marching in St. 66, “the School of Higher Expectations,” and a block away from Hunts Point Auto Wreckers, in a congressional district that’s long been among the nation’s poorest. Yet it is still strange to see Cuomo, just seven months after resigning from the governor’s office in disgrace amid a sexual harassment scandal, turning up in the East Bronx at a small conservative Christian church across the street from P.S.
There was never any chance Andrew Cuomo would go away quietly, spending his remaining years fishing out on the Long Island Sound and maybe doing some low-profile consulting for candidates and corporations.
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