Former Westchester County, New York, executive and onetime Republican New York state gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino tells the Washington Examiner that he is considering another challenge to embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the governor’s seat.
In an interview with Doug McKelway, he said he doubts Cuomo will ever resign, that Cuomo will likely gravitate to his party’s radical left wing in an attempt to retain power, and in so doing, will cause more harm to a state hemorrhaging voters as more New Yorkers flee high taxes, poor services, and draconian lockdowns from COVID-19.
Astorino details some of his own conversations with Cuomo, a man, he says, was pampered from early years living in the governor’s mansion as the son of Mario Cuomo, then as the governor himself, and who developed a sense of entitlement that evolved into intimidation and bullying political opponents.
Astorino says the New York media were often complicit in hiding that pattern as well as playing down Cuomo’s failure to secure nursing homes from the return of hospitalized COVID-19-positive residents that resulted in the deaths of 15,000.
It was only the recent spate of #MeToo allegations against him that opened the media floodgates and calls for his resignation.
