03-06-2022, 04:49 PM
I saw a tweet that someone reposted from back in the Cuomo turmoil period that said something like, 'I know it sounds crazy, but what if Cuomo resigns now, avoids investigations, stays out of sight and then re-emerges in March as if nothing happened?'
It actually said March. And here we are - today Cuomo begins his comeback tour.
from an NYT art 2-28:
Cut off from power, longtime friends and a political platform, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has struggled for months to salvage a reputation that was all but destroyed when he resigned amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations.
On Monday, Mr. Cuomo tried a new approach: spending his way out of the political wilderness.
According to AdImpact, an ad tracking firm, Mr. Cuomo’s still-active campaign account began spending $369,000 to air a television advertisement across the state — a media blitz designed not to support or attack a political candidate or even to apologize to New Yorkers, but to brazenly recast himself as the victim of politically motivated “attacks.”
The 30-second spot that began running Monday on broadcast and cable splices together recent news snippets in an attempt to misleadingly convince New Yorkers that the entire misconduct case assembled by the state attorney general, Letitia James, against Mr. Cuomo had crumbled since he left office in August.
“Political attacks won,” the advertisement concludes. “And New Yorkers lost a proven leader.”
He spoke today at a church: https://www.wivb.com/news/new-york/nyc/f...signation/
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke Sunday morning at God’s Battalion of Prayer Church in Brooklyn, the first public appearance he’s made since his resignation on August 10, 2021. The church’s Reverend, Rev. Alfred Cockfield, was appointed to the Long Island Power Authority Board last year by Former Governor Cuomo’s office. In introducing the former governor, Cockfield said “he’s a friend. I never turn my back on friends.”
When Mr. Cuomo first took the podium, he began, “I’ve gone through a very difficult time these past few months. I resigned as Governor, the press roasted me… it was one of the roughest times of my life.” Cuomo then went on to detail the several sexual assault allegations brought up against him, hitting the same points his administration has many times- that there is a “new sensitivity” with younger people.
Not many showed up...
It actually said March. And here we are - today Cuomo begins his comeback tour.
from an NYT art 2-28:
Cut off from power, longtime friends and a political platform, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has struggled for months to salvage a reputation that was all but destroyed when he resigned amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations.
On Monday, Mr. Cuomo tried a new approach: spending his way out of the political wilderness.
According to AdImpact, an ad tracking firm, Mr. Cuomo’s still-active campaign account began spending $369,000 to air a television advertisement across the state — a media blitz designed not to support or attack a political candidate or even to apologize to New Yorkers, but to brazenly recast himself as the victim of politically motivated “attacks.”
The 30-second spot that began running Monday on broadcast and cable splices together recent news snippets in an attempt to misleadingly convince New Yorkers that the entire misconduct case assembled by the state attorney general, Letitia James, against Mr. Cuomo had crumbled since he left office in August.
“Political attacks won,” the advertisement concludes. “And New Yorkers lost a proven leader.”
He spoke today at a church: https://www.wivb.com/news/new-york/nyc/f...signation/
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke Sunday morning at God’s Battalion of Prayer Church in Brooklyn, the first public appearance he’s made since his resignation on August 10, 2021. The church’s Reverend, Rev. Alfred Cockfield, was appointed to the Long Island Power Authority Board last year by Former Governor Cuomo’s office. In introducing the former governor, Cockfield said “he’s a friend. I never turn my back on friends.”
When Mr. Cuomo first took the podium, he began, “I’ve gone through a very difficult time these past few months. I resigned as Governor, the press roasted me… it was one of the roughest times of my life.” Cuomo then went on to detail the several sexual assault allegations brought up against him, hitting the same points his administration has many times- that there is a “new sensitivity” with younger people.
Not many showed up...
