With the Nina bad news, at least we in NY can look forward to getting rid of Cuomo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/nyregion/cuomo-toxic-workplace.html

The governor placed his finger on the back of the trooper’s neck, standing behind her in an elevator at his Manhattan office, tracing the path of her spine with a two-word narration: “Hey, you.”

Sometimes, he asked questions — Why didn’t she wear a dress? Why pursue marriage when “your sex drive goes down” afterward? Could he kiss her? — and sometimes, he made statements: He remarked that his ideal girlfriend could “handle pain.” He said that the trooper, in her late 20s, was “too old” for him. He directed her to say nothing of their conversations.

The trooper was perhaps most unsettled after an event on Long Island in 2019. As she held a door open for him, she felt the palm of his hand on her bellybutton, pressing toward her right hip, where she kept her gun. “I felt completely violated,” she later told investigators. “But, you know, I’m here to do a job.”

Doing a job at the behest of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was long known to be taxing and often demeaning work. But a 165-page report released on Tuesday by the state attorney general is at once the fullest accounting yet of his executive misdeeds and a meticulous rendering of how that conduct was permitted to fester in the first place.

To exist as a woman in Mr. Cuomo’s orbit, the report suggested, was to live “the dichotomy between fear and flirtation,” a space where the boss could toggle between intimate and intimidating and where his senior-most aides seemed to operate with a singular focus on the governor’s reputation and personal comfort.

In fact, the report says, as Mr. Cuomo sexually harassed women inside and outside his government, greater pains were taken to protect him from himself: The executive chamber declined to report harassment allegations from an executive assistant, Charlotte Bennett, to the appropriate state agency and moved instead to establish a practice preventing certain female staff members from being left alone with the governor.

The composition of his circle, in the report’s telling, was likewise intended to minimize exposure for Mr. Cuomo and accentuate a culture of fear around confronting him, with access granted chiefly to those with “a proven, personal loyalty.”

New information may emerge, but early indication is that high turn out in white affluent shaker heights was dispositive here.

Two million dollars was spent by DMFI galvanizing this population.

Just like South Carolina, corporate Dems turned out white voters to win. https://t.co/C7v4fSDaba

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) August 4, 2021

Look at establishment logic – @ninaturner should have kissed Joe Biden's ass more. She was too independent. How dare that Black woman have independent thought, they say. She did not serve white leadership enough. Yes, this kind of disgusting thinking is considered normal in DC.

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) August 4, 2021

How wonderful! I’ll be watching this one’s career closely. Likely will be a boring back bencher and vote for the establishment.

In an interview with me and @allymutnick, Brown shared some of potential committee preferences: Education & Labor; Transportation & Infrastructure; Small Business Admin.

"I feel good about Congressman Clyburn being in such a powerful position that he might grant a wish for me."

— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) August 4, 2021