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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Friday he would not resign from office in the face of mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, hours after most Democratic members of Congress from his home state urged him to quit.
In a hastily scheduled conference call with reporters that Cuomo’s office billed as a regular update on the coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo criticized the growing number of politicians from his own party who have called on him to resign.
“Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are in my opinion reckless and dangerous. The people of New York should not have confidence in a politician who takes an opinion without knowing the facts and substance,” Cuomo said. “People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth. Let the review proceed, I’m not going to resign, I was not elected by the politicians, I was elected by the people.”
The three-term governor who served as a former New York attorney general and as secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration cast himself as an outsider targeted by political insiders.
“I am not part of the political club, and you know what? I am proud of it,” he said. “I have been in the public eye my entire life. My entire life I have been under public scrutiny, since I was 23 years old and ran my father’s campaign. New Yorkers know me. Wait for the facts.”
…Asked directly whether he had been involved in a consensual relationship with any of the women who had accused him of improper behavior, Cuomo did not answer directly.
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Article URL : https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/542957-cuomo-defiant-in-face-of-calls-to-resign