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This is where it's going to hurt Jonathan Kirk, known to the world as DaBaby: Radio play.
As we speak, the radio stations are slowing down the music played by the rapper. After his infamous Rolling Loud Miami performance, many in the entertainment business are distancing themselves from the rapper.
He had said, "If you didn't show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that'll make you die in two or three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up."
He added, "Fellas, if you ain't sucking duck in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up!" Later on social media, he posted that his LGBT+ fans aren't "nasty gay niggas" or "junkies" in response to the outrage.
The impact of those comments were felt. Dua Lipa demanded her song "Levitating" be pulled from rotation due to the rapper being on the remix of her song. He was pulled from Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Governors Ball, Day N Vagus, Music Midtown and the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
He offered a milquetoast apology on social media before pulling it. He wrote, "I want to apology to the LGBTQ+ community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made." He said that he wanted to further educate himself on the subject at hand.
Now it appears that his actions set of a precedent. Will the hip-hop community finally end the homophobia?
Since Lil Nas X broke into the hip-hop community as being one of the most popular LGBTQ rapper in modern history, he's face backlash from the likes of DaBaby, Raymond "Benzino" Scott, Pastor Troy, 50 Cent, T.I. and Glasses Malone.
Lil Nas X broke the internet. His video Industry Baby has streamed over 100 million.
The transphobia by 50 Cent is well known. After he "mocked" Young Buck after he was wrapped in a sex scandal involving a transwoman, he's basically been on social media still promoting transphobia.
Raymond Scott, a washed up rapper who is best known for his feud with Eminem, was recently on leftist Marc Lamont Hill's program attacking Lil Nas X and BET for hosting his set. Then he used gay slurs and misgendering a transwoman he actually flirted with on social media.
Eminem has also said homophobic remarks when he was going after Machine Gun Kelly.
Lil Nas X dethroned DaBaby in radio play and Spotify play.
The rapper had no comment on the controversy with DaBaby. However he did remark on Scott, Malone and Pastor Troy. He basically trolled them. He subliminally called them "washed up" after they remarked about him.
Hip-hop must take ownership over its own actions and stop embracing homophobia. The LGBTQ community is not taking the insults, the hate and the nastiness of these entertainers.
Black couple who adopted two white twins had the law called on them.
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Black couple adopts white twin boys and the Karens often mistaken them as kidnappers.
Jennifer McDuffie-Moore and husband Harry Moore initially fostered Brayden and Trevor, three, after they were separated at birth from their biological mother, who had a drug addiction.
Foster mom shares the experience of raising two white children.
The couple officially adopted the identical twins two years later and they joined their biological children Joy, 21, and Kourtney, 11, and their adoptive kids Keenan, 10, and Sanchez, eight, in the family home in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
One mother at a playground even threatened to call the police when the twins had a tantrum.
"A month ago, we were playing at the playground and the twins didn’t want to go home," says Jennifer.
"A lady had been watching us playing and when one of the twins had a tantrum she told me she was going to call the police."
Jennifer, an early learning specialist and co-owner of a childcare program, and Harry, a mechanic, have described racist encounters they have experienced as the Black parents of white children.
"I scooped the kids up and she thought I was stealing them. One of the twins said: 'No, that’s my mom'. I don’t want to justify it because people should mind their own business."
The couple, who started fostering in 2009, added that they have been pulled over by the police countless times while ferrying their large family around in a 12-seat minivan.
The couple first took in the twins for a weekend in July 2018 as respite care, when the twins were just three months old.
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Mayim Bialik will be hosting Jeopardy! with Mike Richards.
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Game show producer Mike Richards and actress Mayim Bialik will be the new hosts of the longtime quiz show. Bialik, a certified neuroscientist and actress best known for her roles on Blossom, The Big Bang Theory and Call Me Kat announced her role on social media,
IT’S TRUE!!! Been waiting a long time to tell you all. Really really honored and astounded and excited for this - it’s beyond anything I ever imagined could happen. https://t.co/MZpXV7a9xf@Jeopardy
Richards will be the syndicated host and Bialik will host the ABC primetime specials and be fill-in during the times Richards is on vacation.
While some were hoping that LeVar Burton, Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Aaron Rodgers, Anderson Cooper and Savannah Guthrie would nab the role, the show played safe by hiring Richards. It was somewhat controversial because of his past duties as executive producer on The Price is Right and Let's Make A Deal. The claims of him being a monster towards workers didn't deter the promotion to become a permanent host.
Mike Richards was the leading candidate for the hosting gig.
Brian Stelter from CNN, a prominent media commentator wrote that the choices were made by Sony Entertainment.
Given the popularity of the daily syndicated show that was helmed by Alex Trebek for decades, it’s only logical that Sony wants to keep trying to expand in new directions.
Announcing Mayim Bialik and Mike Richards as our new hosts of Jeopardy! Richards will host the daily syndicated show, while Bialik will host primetime and spinoff series.https://t.co/MVQAqnKgjUpic.twitter.com/itY6fIe5Uv
At the same time, it may represent a risk for the TV studio, since the “Jeopardy!” brand may become diluted with two hosts.
Richards will continue as executive producer of “Jeopardy” when he becomes the show’s host. He filled in as a guest host for two weeks last winter, when the show introduced a series of rotating hosts that seemed to be try-outs for the permanent job.
Sony indicated on Wednesday that, contrary to social media chatter and speculation, Richards did not pick himself for the job.
Ravi Ahuja, Sony Pictures’ chair of global TV studios and corporate development, said “a senior group of Sony Pictures Television executives pored over footage from every episode, reviewed research from multiple panels and focus groups, and got valuable input from our key partners and Jeopardy! viewers. We knew early on that we wanted to divide the hosting responsibilities and it became very clear that Mike and Mayim were the undeniable choices. They were both at the top of our research and analysis.”
Richards paid tribute to Trebek, who died last November at the age of 80, in his statement on Wednesday.
Fans were calling for LeVar Burton to host the show. Burton is best known for his role in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow.
“Alex believed the game itself and the contestants are the most important aspects of the show,” he said. “I was fortunate to witness his professionalism, intensity and kindness up close and that will serve as the ultimate blueprint as we continue to produce the show we love.”
Bialik called the new job hosting prime time editions of the show “one of the most exciting and surreal opportunities of my life.”
“I’m so grateful and excited to continue to work with Mike Richards, and I’m just over the moon to join forces with him and Sony,” she said.
One of the other contenders for the host job, “Jeopardy” genius Ken Jennings, will continue to serve as a consulting producer on the show.
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Just in case this woman Googles herself and finds our blog, we want to thank her for reading. You are more than welcomed to threaten lawsuits against any of your critics. However, we're not in the business of libeling you. You had your story reported by the junk food media. They found it not credible.
If you can provide receipts, then you're getting attention. In the meantime, disappear from the limelight.
Bring on your threats. You can't sue when you're a "public figure." Trust me, you in the limelight and you are a paid propagandist for the Russian government.
When will we finally put to rest the allegations of sexual abuse by this woman against President Joe Biden?
The Biden accuser posts an op-ed for Russia Today, a state-run propaganda outlet sponsored by the Russian Federation.
Many of her critics believe she was a "useful idiot" in a last minute attempt to take down Biden.
She is of many trades. She is an owner of a horse. She is allegedly an animal hoarder. She is a woman who is an actor, author and former aide to Biden and Leon Panetta. She is a supporter of Julian Assange and wrote her fantanizations of Vladikaren Putin.
In 2019, Biden was accused of violating women spaces. One in particular was this woman and another named Lucy Flores.
Flores, a washed up politician who backed Biden's opponent was exposed as a hypocrite because she literally had pictures of inappropriate touching and a perchance of bullshiting.
This woman came forth with the claims that he was touching her hair and allegedly saying things about her legs while she served drinks. She said it wasn't sexual in any nature but it made her feel like a lamp.
When that didn't pick up steam, she came out with this claim of sexual abuse.
She told a few people but it soon grew to telling dozens of people. Some of them were either associated with far-right propaganda or leftist propaganda. She even told her brother who magically said it was more than just an inappropriate comment or touching.
In March 2020, as Biden was becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, this California woman goes to a leftist program to publicly accuse then senator, then vice president and now private citizen Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. of sexual assault in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
This woman publicly accuse then said of putting his finger up her dress and digitally penetrated her. She claimed that he summoned her with a gym bag. After getting the bag, she was shoved to a semi private corridor and sexually abused. She claims that Biden said "I heard you like me" and when she rejected his advances he said, "You're nothing to me!"
The leftists who backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pushed this allegation and demanded that Biden stepped aside.
During the peak of the allegations, she was starting to pick up steam with a clip from Larry King in which a caller claimed that her daughter was having problems with a certain senator. It was the King clip that forced Biden to respond to the allegations.
She made the claim that she filed a report against him. Two versions came forth. She said that she chickened out from filing it. She said that Biden has it secured in his public records at the University of Delaware. The woman filed a report out of the Washington, DC Metro Police. It is rendered inactive.
She also got two attorneys. One who backed Washed Up 45 and one who once worked for Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik TV.
The woman appeared on a handful of leftists, far-right and Russian media outlets.
Biden denied he assaulted her. He also said that if anything was on record, it should be released.
He made his appearance on Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski and sat through 15 minutes of uncomfortable questions about her, his constant hugs and alleged inappropriate comments.
Biden made it clear. "It did not happen!" He added, "She has a right to be heard, but as with most, it has to be thoroughly vetted."
The Biden accuser wants the feds to investigate the president on her long debunk claims.
The Biden team would also release statements from his former senate and White House staffers and many said that Biden would never allow women to do mediocre tasks and he never was inappropriate towards anyone.
The woman was allegedly interviewed for Fox but backed out. She turned to Karen Hugh, a leftist tabloid journalist and Karen Kelly, a far-right agitator who once said that "Santa Claus and Jesus were white."
She goes into a bizarre rant about her pathetic life. She openly admitted that she wore no pantyhose and had crotchless panties while working in the Senate. She also said that Biden reached into her at an angle to getting into her crotch.
It was so fucking bizarre. Then Vice, The Politico and PBS Newshour did their investigation into the allegations and found some inconsistencies. They met former friends and acquaintances who said that the woman had a history of making up claims about being a victim. They said that she once claimed she was a legislative aide. The former workers for Biden said that she was a staffer who operated the mail and phones. One man said that he believed she was not doing her job right and was a drama queen.
A woman who owned a injured horse and mule rescue said the woman deliberately stole property and billed her business numerous times without authorization. She said that she often spoke of Biden in a positive light. She even posted positive comments about Biden when she her previous Twitter accounts.
Others said that they would remember her if she made a claim about sexual abuse from Biden or her former husband. She even accused former workers and a former boyfriend who was her work partner of abuse.
The Obama White House also dismissed the allegations. They have thoroughly vetted Biden and if these allegations would have came forth during the 2008 presidential race and his second run for president, he would have never been chosen to be Barack Obama's running mate. Mind you Biden ran for president in 1988, 2008 and 2020. In 2008, the allegations were never brought up. The allegations were never brought up when he dropped out and was running for his senate seat as well as being a running mate for Obama.
Ronan Farrow, the journalist who broke the stories about predator Cosby and predator Weinstein could not find any constant witnesses to back her. He did not take her story.
Nor did many others who worked on cases involving powerful people being accused of sexual abuse.
The woman's lawyer dropped her after she lied about her credentials as a domestic violence advisor. Now the Biden accuser went back to being an online troll.
Everyone who called her out were given the Jeffrey Shaun King treatment. She would often sic her army of followers on the critic and threaten lawsuits against them.
This account has engaged in libel. Please report to Twitter and to the board of this non profit. I have never been convicted of perjury or cases overturned. Is this non profit connected to a political organization or Biden? https://t.co/K7R5Q01sXZpic.twitter.com/ezVPxnwsVP
Presenting Jon Cooper and @TheDemocrats making it safe for me to come forward. Jon Cooper used resources to launch a coordinated attack that included vulgar tweets about me.@PressSecpic.twitter.com/afpXJ6EqAP
@ArmyStanding Sally Albright sock puppet so desperate to avoid court she avoids service but continues to harass me. Let’s do a deep dive into your background shall we? Or do you want to continue to harass sexual assault survivors? pic.twitter.com/03o9HfSlS2
She would often toss the libel label at her critics and threaten to sue Twitter to release the names. She also has numerous GoFundMe accounts online. She also has a deal with Russia Today to write opinion pieces which often side with the Kremlin's view of America.
In the wake of Andrew Cuomo resigning from his third term as governor and ending his bid for a fourth term, Fox, Republicans and this woman are screaming for an investigation into the Biden allegations.
Cuomo chose to resign because Biden and Democrats lost faith in him. The New York Attorney General Letitia James released her findings confirming that Cuomo had inappropriately said and touched women who worked with him. He is facing an impeachment and possible criminal probe.
Cuomo's resignation had led to Republicans and far-right agitators to bring up the "Believe Women" trope. The very same party that allowed Washed Up 45 in their wings. Knowing he has 25 or more women accuse him of inappropriate behavior. Having at least 10 Republican members of the House and Senate with known allegations be members of their conferences shows these folks have no shame. The very same party that allowed the QAnon insurrection happen.
Once again, I've said that this "sea cow" needs to have proof that it happened. She need to hire a qualified attorney, make a public statement and sue the President of the United States. If she does sue the president, she must appear under oath to testify that the incident occurred.
She so far hasn't been called to testify under oath.
Her former residence is San Mateo County, California. They had released a statement to allegations that while she was a court appointed witness and domestic violence advisor, she may have perjured herself in her legal degrees.
The California State Attorney has opened an investigation into whether she may have inadvertently sent people to the iron college with bogus testimonies.
Democrats do hold their members accountable. They are often pressured to resign, apologize or backtrack. Republicans are shameless. They exploit, complain, ridicule and demonize for political gains.
This woman is mentally ill. I look at her as a woman who is a serial con artist. I believe she was convinced by her online Russian boyfriend to lie about this sexual assault. I believe that if she continues to be limelight, she'll be subject to lawsuits and possible scrutiny.
I am sick and tired of her. She needs to fade into the abyss.
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The bipartisan transportation bill successfully passed the Senate with 19 Republican senators joining Democrats to get passage of President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill. The budget reconciliation of the infrastructure bill is expected to pass with 51 votes with Vice President Kamala Harris aiding.
The long awaited infrastructure bill finally got through the partisan gridlock of the U.S. Senate.
The House will get the bill and it will face opposition from Republicans and some Democrats.
The so called Squad is willing to tank it if its not progressive enough.
I am guessing the usual Republicans reacted with the negative. About 30 Republicans will claim credit for the infrastructure bill they voted against. A new bridge, road, freeway and railroad is a benefit for a lawmaker. Trust me, they are shameless. The opposers will say they had a part in it.
The Republicans who voted in favor of this include
Karen Romney of Utah
Karen Collins of Maine
Karen Murkowski of Alaska
Karen Blunt of Missouri
Karen Fischer of Nebraska
Karen Burr of North Carolina
Karen Cassidy of Louisiana
Karen Kramer of North Dakota
Karen Wicker of Mississippi
Karen Hoeven of North Dakota
Karen Risch of Idaho
Karen Grassley of Iowa
Karen Portman of Ohio
Karen Crapo of Idaho
Karen Sullivan of Alaska
Karen Tillis of North Carolina
Karen Graham of South Carolina
Karen Moore Capito of West Virginia
Karen McConnell of Kentucky, Minority Leader
Cassidy and Blunt want a highway to be finished. Interstate 49 is being built from Kansas City to New Orleans. The gap between Missouri and Arkansas will be complete in 2022. The unfinished gap in Shreveport faces opposition from residents and rerouting is considered. The highway is expected to be built in western Arkansas and a portion of Texas. The highway will hopefully end in New Orleans.
The Mod Squad managed to get a bill passed.
McConnell and Portman are for the Brent Spence Bridge which is dangerous. It carries Interstates 71 and 75. McConnell, Portman, Moore Capito, Burr, Tillis and Graham want Interstate 73 and 74 to be built. Portions of Interstate 73 and 74 are built in North Carolina. The end game for Interstate 73 is a highway from the U.S./Canadian border to Myrtle Beach. The other highway, Interstate 74 will be extended from Cincinnati to Wilmington, North Carolina.
McConnell, Wicker and Cassidy wants Interstate 69 to be built.
Grassley wants to fix bridges around Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Bettendorf.
Risch, Hoeven, Crapo, Moore Capito and Romney know about rock slides and the energy grid failing in the West and Appliahchia.
Republicans who voted against it will either credit themselves or Washed Up 45. Because they will show up with shovels, hard hats and photographers.
The 69-30 tally provides momentum for this first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better” priorities, now headed to the House. A sizable number of lawmakers showed they were willing to set aside partisan pressures, eager to send billions to their states for rebuilding roads, broadband internet, water pipes and the public works systems that underpin much of American life.
Infrastructure was once a mainstay of lawmaking, but the weeks-long slog to strike a compromise showed how hard it has become for Congress to tackle routine legislating, even on shared priorities.
The turtle and the hare. Schumer finally got the turtle to the finish line.
Some Republicans were celebrating along with the Democrats.
“What we are doing here today also demonstrates to the American people that we can get our act together on a bipartisan basis to get something done,” said Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the lead Republican negotiator. ”We can do big things.”
Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York: “There’s been detours and everything else, but this will do a whole lot of good for America.”
The outline for Biden’s bigger $3.5 trillion package is next up for the Senate — a more liberal undertaking of child care, elder care and other programs that is much more partisan and expected to draw only Democratic support. That debate is expected to extend into the fall.
Tuesday’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act started with a group of 10 senators who seized on Biden’s campaign promise to draft a scaled-down version of his initial $2.3 trillion proposal, one that could more broadly appeal to both parties in the narrowly divided Congress, especially the 50-50 Senate.
It swelled to a 2,700-page bill backed by the president and also business, labor and farm interests. It drew an expansive alliance of senators and a bipartisan group in the House.
In all, 19 Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for Senate passage. Vice President Kamala Harris, as presiding officer, announced the final tally.
While liberal lawmakers said the package doesn’t go far enough as a down-payment on Biden’s priorities and conservatives said it is too costly and should be more fully paid for, the coalition of centrist senators was able to hold. Even broadsides from former Washed Up 45 could not bring the bill down.
“This infrastructure bill is not the perfect bill,” said Sen. Karen Murkowski (R-AK), one of the negotiators. She said the senators kept at it, believing, “It’s better to get some of what our constituents want rather than none of it.”
Vice President Kamala Harris casts the tie breaking vote on the reconciliation package.
The measure proposes nearly $550 billion in new spending over five years in addition to current federal authorizations for public works that will reach virtually every corner of the country — a potentially historic expenditure Biden has put on par with the building of the transcontinental railroad or interstate highway system.
There’s money to rebuild roads and bridges, and also to shore up coastlines against climate change, protect public utility systems from cyberattacks and modernize the electric grid. Public transit gets a boost, as do airports and freight rail. Most lead drinking water pipes in America could be replaced.
The top Democratic negotiator, Sen. Karen Sinema (D-AZ), said rarely will a piece of legislation affect so many Americans. She gave a nod to the late John McCain and said she was trying to follow his example to “reach bipartisan agreements that try to bring the country together.”
Drafted during the COVID-19 crisis, the bill would provide $65 billion for broadband, a provision Sen. Karen Collins (R-ME) negotiated because she said the coronavirus pandemic showed that such service “is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity.” States will receive money to expand broadband and make it more affordable.
Despite the momentum, action slowed last weekend when Sen. Karen Hagerty, a Tennessee Republican allied with Washed Up 45, refused to speed up the process.
Build back better.
The former president had called his one-time Japan ambassador and cheered him on, but it’s unclear if the former president’s views still carry as much sway with most senators. Washed Up 45 issued fresh complaints hours before Tuesday’s vote. He had tried and failed to pass his own infrastructure bill during his time in the White House.
Other Republican senators objected to the size, scope and financing of the package, particularly concerned after the Congressional Budget Office said it would add $256 billion to deficits over the decade.
Rather than pressure his colleagues, Senate Republican leader Karen McConnell of Kentucky stayed behind the scenes for much of the bipartisan work. He allowed the voting to proceed, and may benefit from enabling this package in a stroke of bipartisanship while trying to stop Biden’s next big effort. He voted for passage on Tuesday.
Unlike the $3.5 trillion second package, which would be paid for by higher tax rates for corporations and the wealthy, the bipartisan package is to be funded by repurposing other money, including some COVID-19 aid.
The bill’s backers argue that the budget office’s analysis was unable to take into account certain revenue streams that will help offset its costs — including from future economic growth.
Senators have spent the past week processing nearly two dozen amendments, but none substantially changed its framework.
The House is expected to consider both Biden infrastructure packages together, but centrist lawmakers urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to bring the bipartisan plan forward quickly, and they raised concerns about the bigger bill in a sign of the complicated politics still ahead.
After the Senate vote, she declared, “Today is a day of progress ... a once in a century opportunity.”
Cuomo steps down after allegations of sexual harassment.
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In two weeks, New York governor Andrew Cuomo resigns. After 11 women claimed that the governor sexually harassed them, the embattled governor was facing a state lunch and federal sandwich. The state legislation was proceeding with impeaching him.
The state Democrats lost faith in him. The President of the United States, Joe Biden lost faith in him.
It appears that the pressure to get him out was effective.
Democrats appear to hold their own accountable whereas Republicans allow their own to continue regardless of the allegations or incompetence.
Cuomo's resignation was made live at 12:00pm. In the address, the governor formally apologized to the victims and said that he was "friendly" with both men and women. He believes the allegations are false and stated that he never would do something inappropriate to women. However, the pressure on him and the loss of support from his allies forced his hand. His resignation will take effect in 14 days, ending a decade-long run in the office he dedicated most of his adult life to keeping within his family — first as an adviser to his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, before winning three terms himself.
With Cuomo stepping down, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul of Buffalo will make history as the first woman to serve as New York governor. She will be sworn in after Cuomo's resignation takes effect and is set to fill out the remainder of his term, which runs through 2022.
Cuomo, 63, had defiantly resisted calls for his resignation over the the past five months, a period in which multiple women, including current and former state employees, publicly accused him of inappropriate or harassing behavior in some form.
His administration has also faced extensive criticism for purposefully withholding the true COVID-19 death toll of nursing home residents for months, a decision that has attracted scrutiny from federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
The most damaging — and ultimately fatal — blow came Aug. 3, when state Attorney General Letitia James' office released a report that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women, including nine state employees, violating various state and federal laws along the way.
Among them was an executive assistant who accused Cuomo of reaching under her blouse and groping her breast during a November 2020 encounter at the Executive Mansion, which Cuomo continues to deny despite the attorney general's report finding the woman's claims "credible."
On Tuesday, Cuomo announced his decision in an on-camera address following a lengthy presentation by his outside attorney, Rita Glavin, who sought to cast doubt on many of his accusers' claims and continued to deny Cuomo had ever touched them inappropriately.
Kathy Hochul will finish out the controversial Cuomo term.
In recent months, Cuomo had vehemently vowed to not resign, saying it was the people, not politicians, who elected him to his third term in 2018.
But Cuomo ultimately faced an untenable choice: either step down or face impeachment, which looked increasingly like a fait accompli as more and more state lawmakers called for his ouster.
"(It) is abundantly clear to me that the Governor has lost the confidence of the Assembly Democratic majority and that he can no longer remain in office," Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, said in a statement Aug. 3 after refraining for months to call for Cuomo's ouster.
Since taking office in 2011, Cuomo used his unyielding aggression and distaste for bureaucracy to mold himself into the most consequential and powerful figure in New York government, flexing his muscle to push through major projects like the $4 billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement and policy like the legalization of same-sex marriage.
He teetered between staying true to his moderate Democratic roots and moving more to the left as the party became more progressive, shepherding through a $15 minimum wage law in 2015 and paid-family leave a year later.
Most of his tenure was with Republicans in control of the Senate, though he was able to cajole enough of them to support portions of his agenda, including stronger gun-rights laws in 2013 and the same-sex marriage law two years earlier, which at the time made New York the largest state to do so.
In 2020, he rose to his highest level of national fame when his daily, PowerPoint-driven briefings gained an international audience amid the coronavirus pandemic, with many supporters coming to view Cuomo's hands-on approach as counterprogramming to a timid federal response led by Washed Up 45.
The televised briefings even won him an International Emmy award, and his popularity soared to a record 70% in polls. In October, he released a book, American Crisis, that recounted his response in the early days of the pandemic and landed on The New York Times Best Sellers List.
The book deal netted him an astounding $5 million from The Crown Publishing Group. But it has since become the subject of an investigation by James, who is examining whether he illegally used state resources to complete the project.
Cuomo's hard-charging style and penchant for threats helped contribute to his demise, alienating state lawmakers who may otherwise have been more willing to stave off potential impeachment proceedings had they viewed the governor as an ally instead of an enemy.
In the end, his downfall was as swift as his rise was long: Cuomo resigned just five months after former aide Lindsey Boylan published an essay detailing his alleged harassing behavior, including a 2018 meeting in which he kissed her on the lips without consent as she left.
Boylan was followed by a number of other women who publicly shared similar stories of a governor who made inappropriate remarks and unwanted advances.
Among them was Charlotte Bennett, a 25-year-old former aide who said Cuomo asked repeated, invasive questions about her romantic live during one-on-one meetings last May and June, as the state was responding to COVID.
In interviews with the attorney general's investigators, Bennett said the governor asked whether she practiced monogamy and if she had ever been with an older man. Cuomo remarked that he would be comfortable being with a woman in her 20s, she said.
Taken together, Bennett believed Cuomo was propositioning her for sex.
"Without explicitly saying it, he implied to me that I was old enough for him and he was lonely," Bennett, a Westchester County native and Hamilton College graduate, said in an interview with CBS Evening News.
The attorney general's report corroborated the victims' accounts with contemporaneous text messages, notes and interviews with those familiar with the encounters.
Cuomo continued to deny any misbehavior, saying he never touched anyone inappropriately while acknowledging he makes jokes and sometimes asks his staff about their personal lives.
Cuomo accuser speaks to CBS about the governor groping her.
Following the attorney general's report, Cuomo rejected the most serious of claims, saying he did not grope the executive assistant and suggesting some of his aides misinterpreted his remarks as flirtations.
During a direct-to-the-camera address on Aug. 3, he went so far as to play a slideshow of photos of him and other famous politicians kissing and hugging various people, suggesting his behavior was normal.
"I want you to know directly from me that I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances," Cuomo said. "I am 63 years old. I have lived my entire adult life in public view. That is just not who I am and that's not who I have ever been."
Kathy Hochul, 62, will become New York's 57th governor, breaking a 244-year streak of males holding the state's highest office.
Republicans see blood in the water and are hoping to capitalize off Cuomo's resignation. Trust me, Cuomo would have won a fourth term despite the controversy.
But Cuomo caved to pressure. He goes down like Eliot Spitzer. The former New York governor was forced out after he admitted to paying for prostitutes during his time as attorney general and later governor.
Now the race to fill the seat will not only include Hochul, but three Karens who are considered white supremacists.
Karen Paladino, Karen Giuliani, Karen Zeldin and possibly Washed Up 45 are in the running to become the next governor of New York. Who knows?
