A former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the governor sexually harassed her “for years.”
“Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched,” Lindsey Boylan wrote on Twitter Sunday. “I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.”
Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched.
I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.
— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) December 13, 2020
Boylan added that she was not the only woman to experience this behavior and accused Cuomo of abusing his power.
“I *know* I am not the only woman,” she wrote. “I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.”
I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently.
I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.
— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) December 13, 2020
Cuomo’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
Boylan recounted that her first experience with workplace sexual harassment came when she was in high school when her mother was kissed by a boss.
“It was then how I learned how hard it is for women. How hard this world can be for us when we are trying to be taken seriously and help our community. How easily jerks can destroy the lives of women. And I promised myself I would never let those kind of guys win,” she wrote.
She also said she would “never give up” her fight to “end the violence & corruption. Give voice to the voiceless. I am not stopping. I refuse.”
This isn’t the first complaint she has voiced about the culture of the New York governor’s office. Last week, Boylan called the office the “most toxic team environment” she’s ever been in and said she’s still “unwrapping it years later in therapy.”
She wrote of her former boss that “if people weren’t deathly afraid of [Cuomo], they’d be saying the same thing and you’d already know the stories.”
Boylan is a current candidate for Manhattan Borough president and worked for the Cuomo administration from March 2015 to October 2018, including as deputy secretary for economic development.
