Political support for lieutenant government. Kathy Hochul has asked Mount Gyu Como to resign over allegations of sexual harassment.
In a twist of poetic justice, Hochul would become the first female governor of the state and the 57th woman overall.
The 62-year-old Hochool remained largely in the public eye as she began her second term with Cuomo. In fact, he was not mentioned in his public event last spring during the height of the epidemic, and he was not included in his book on the COVID-19 crisis.
But on Friday he can be seen as a counterattack at the Buffalo for the appearance of Quomo at the Javits Center from the Black Stage, meeting the chairman of TAKO as well as the vaccine. Hochul posed for cameras inside Catholic Health, Flexing in the Bicep Muscle a la Rosie the River.
In a departure from tradition – and a sign he may have already distanced himself from Cuomo – the media was reported to have presence through Hochul’s own press office. Typically, the Governor Office sends programs to both.
The 59 legislators, who issued a statement on Thursday, asked Cuomo to step down – following allegations that he had arrived inside the governor’s mansion last year under a colleague’s blouse and expressed support for Hochul.
“We have a lieutenant governor who can step in and lead for the remainder of the term, and this is what is best for New York at this critical time,” he wrote.
“I believe Lt. Government Hochul has managed the budget process and our Attorney General to conduct a thorough investigation,” the mayoral candidate and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said in a statement.
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, who ran against Cuomo and Hochul in 2014, promoted Hochul in a statement calling for Cuomo.
“Kyomo should resign and Kathy Hochul, whom I have campaigned against and voted for in the primaries … should be governor,” He tweeted Friday afternoon. “He cannot be trusted. He pursues lies, bullion and genius. He has betrayed the trust of the people of New York. “
A spokesman for Mayor de Blasio – who publicly supported Hochul when he ran for the first time in 2014 with Cuomo – also addressed Hochul’s prospects of becoming the state’s leader.
“Andrew Kyomo has had numerous allegations of sexual harassment and sexual harassment … Cathy Hochul does not,” Bill Neidhart said.
Hochul has She said she supports an independent investigation Cuomo by state Attorney General Letitia James, but stopped calling Cuomo to step aside.
The possible succession will be similar to that of the former government. Elliot Spitzer resigns in 2008 amid prostitution scandal. Then Gov. David Patterson stepped in for the remainder of his term – a job that was a big jump from being second-in-command.
He once jokingly said that the lieutenant governor’s job required him to “wake up very early and call the governor’s private line.” If he answers, then sleep, your work is done. “
Hochul was first elected as a member of the Hamburg Town Board in the 1980s. She was elected as the President of the Congress for the 26th district in 2011 by including the buffalo.
Hochul met her husband Bill, a former US attorney for the Western District of New York, who was working as an assemblyman while attending college at Syracuse University.
Hochul has championed women’s issues – she leads the state’s “substantial” campaign against sexual harassment on college campuses – and has spoken out about her familiarity with testosterone-ridden political waters.
“I know what it’s like to be a lonely woman in a room.” And these people are talking to you and thinking that you don’t mind. It has been the majority of my career as an elected official for over 25 years, ”Hochul told NY1 in November.
“So it makes you tough, but it makes you want to extend a hand back to the next generation of young women and engage them so that they also want to participate.”
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