New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Resigns

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  1. Jaybird says:

    Trump should resign!Report

  2. CJColucci says:

    Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.Report

  3. Greginak says:

    Good riddance to bad rubbish. Of course great minds, and myself, predicted he was gonna be out. So being right about something seems nice. This is another good solid step towards seeing the powerful face repercussions for their misdeed so this a good day for most of us.Report

  4. North says:

    A victory for the state of New York, the Democratic Party and general decency.
    To quote the poet Wilde: “”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”” Cuomo definitely fits the latter bill.Report

    • Oscar Gordon in reply to North says:

      It probably helps that the party maintains the office, helps that bitter pill go down a bit easier.Report

      • North in reply to Oscar Gordon says:

        I am dubious that it was a particularly bitter pill for the party. As you noted there’s little chance they’ll lose the office and politicos of Cuomo’s ideological stripe (without the women fondling) aren’t hard to find. Dumping Cuomo loses them nothing except maybe his hardline to his brother at CNN. Good riddance.Report

      • Saul Degraw in reply to Oscar Gordon says:

        The competition appears to be Giuliani’s son so the bitter pill would have been if Cuomo powered it out and ran for reelection and eeked through in the primary. I don’t think Democrats will be swallowing any bitter pills over voting for Hohchul or James over Giuliani the lesser.Report

  5. Jaybird says:

    Cuomo resigned.
    Who was before Cuomo? David Patterson. He was Spitzer’s replacement after Spitzer resigned (and, apparently, ended up not running for governor himself due to a cloud of scandal/controversy).
    Spitzer was before Patterson. Spitzer resigned.

    Nowhere near Illinois yet (you’ve gotta up your game to play in that particular league) but still. What the heck?Report

  6. Pinky says:

    There’s a general rule, if you treat people right on your way up, they’ll treat you right on your way down. That rule was probably never true in New York politics. But in this case, Cuomo was born up and always treated people like dirt.Report

    • Chip Daniels in reply to Saul Degraw says:

      Or the way I’d put it, the Democratic Party exists to do stuff, like a normal political party.Report

    • Pinky in reply to Saul Degraw says:

      The party didn’t bring him down, an investigation into apparently credible charges did. Parties can clean up this kind of thing in the back room, but in this case months passed and it didn’t happen.Report

      • North in reply to Pinky says:

        An investigation by a Democratic AG provided the particular proof and the Democratic party from Biden on down lined up behind that proof and demanded he resign.Report

        • Saul Degraw in reply to North says:

          Plus the New York State Legilsature all but stated he would be impeached and removed.Report

        • Pinky in reply to North says:

          I’ve never seen anyone damn themselves with faint praise before, but sure. The Democratic AG who wants the governor’s job didn’t spike the investigation of credible charges into the governor. Brava, I guess.Report

          • North in reply to Pinky says:

            In other words the party did bring him down. Thank you, tip your waiter.Report

            • Pinky in reply to North says:

              A member of the party did her job.Report

              • North in reply to Pinky says:

                And then the rest of the party did theirs and off the old fisher went. It is odd, I agree, that the bar has fallen so low for this series of events to not merely clear it but clear it decisively and yet here we are.Report

              • Mike Schilling in reply to North says:

                DeSantis is doing his job, along with the rest of the southern GOP governors

                Their job is to get everyone killed, right?Report

              • InMD in reply to Pinky says:

                I get the impression that partisan solidarity is a lot more limited or at least complicated in states like NY. Not for any principled reason, just factionalism and the fact that ambition knows no loyalty.Report

              • Jaybird in reply to InMD says:

                If you’re a one-party state, you’re left with crab-bucketing.Report

              • InMD in reply to Jaybird says:

                It’s definitely blue but it isn’t quite what I’d think of as a one party state even though D’s have the trifecta right now. Per Google Republicans held the Senate from 2011-2018 which I don’t think would happen if they were irrelevant. Seems like there are also important blue dog and machine jurisdictions where going Republican is a legitimate threat.Report

              • Jaybird in reply to InMD says:

                Pataki wasn’t that long ago either. (Right? 2006 wasn’t that long ago?)

                But until the Republican party finds its new equilibrium (whatever it will be), I don’t see upstate turning purple just yet.

                I mean, unless Biden sends Harris up there to campaign or something.Report

              • InMD in reply to Jaybird says:

                Definitely a very long way from purple. Also my perspective on what a one party state looks like is probably pretty skewed. Compared to MD, NY looks downright competitive.

                Also I appear to have accidentally reported your comment with negligent scrolling. Sorry!Report

              • Jaybird in reply to InMD says:

                I will see that I am punished appropriately.Report

              • Kazzy in reply to Pinky says:

                As someone who lives on the border of NY/NJ, works in NY, and has many family and friends who live and work in NY, I can say that all of us wanted Cuomo out. This includes many folks who are young and/or liberal and/or Democrats.

                I literally cannot think of a single person in my orbit who has defended him or wanted to see him remain in office.

                Even my family text-thread — which includes my liberaler-than-thou brother and sister — is full of nothing but anti-Cuomo takes.Report

    • DavidTC in reply to Saul Degraw says:

      Hey, look, it’s more ‘Antibody Dependent Enhancement’ nonsense. Anyone want to place bets on whether this is Jabberwocky?Report