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Critics 'Playing Politics'? How Very Cuomovellian

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/22/21

There was a moment on the afternoon of March 12 when it was possible to feel a twinge of sympathy for Governor Cuomo as Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand joined the swelling chorus of New York Democrats demanding that he resign based on sexual-harassment and hostile-work-environment claims made by past and present female staffers.

The signing-on of the state's two U.S. Senators to the campaign to drive him out was supposed to be the Coup de Cuom, the gong telling him that time was up. But the Governor responded that afternoon that he still had the support of the public, explaining, "People know the difference between playing politics—bowing to cancel cultureand the truth."

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