DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT GOVERNOR CUOMO [View all]
As long as cases get built against Democratic leaders, I will throw mine in with the rest, along with my thanks to anyone who reads it to the end. 
Executive Branch officials
Joe Biden, President of the United States
State Governors
Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan
Candidates for the 2021 New York City mayoral election
Andrew Yang, entrepreneur
23 women of NY's General Assembly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo_sexual_harassment_allegations
Why they support Gov Cuomo:
1. They know what Andrew Cuomo’s history is.
2. They know how hard a governor’s job is in the best of times, let alone in a pandemic, dealing with a monster in the White House and an incompetent, corrupt administration.
3. They know that no Democratic leader is perfect.
4. They support Democrats.
I support Democrats who support Democrats.
I support imperfect Democratic leaders like FDR, Clinton, Franken, Biden and Cuomo, who bring their experience and skill to govern, and who do their jobs better than they can please others.
I support allegations, official investigations, full and fair assessments of Democratic leaders.
I support women who file complaints of work place toxicity and harassment to their HR, the EEOC, or police.
I support media who report factual truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So do most New Yorkers.
They know that Gov Cuomo has done far more good for them than any single one of his Democratic detractors.
Now, after the worst of a four-year dark time is over, this governor faces the fault finding that eludes other governors who learned from his covid execution models;
they are Democratic governors who in the first pandemic of our lifetimes, made similar, more, and worse mistakes than he.
The learning curve is steep and fraught in a pandemic, and those who come out of it polititcally intact, owe a debt of gratitude to those who led them. The imperfect Democrats who want Cuomo out stand on the shoulders of Gov Cuomo and his advisers, Drs. Fauci and Zucker, who cut a path through the dark.
Governor Cuomo deserves to be understood in the context of his 40-year political pre-covid work:
Pre-covid, Gov Cuomo introduced or supported and signed
— passage of New York's 2011 Marriage Equality Act,
— New York’s 2014 Compassionate Care Act, legalizing medical marijuana.
In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the 2012 Webster shooting, Cuomo
— signed the NY SAFE Act of 2013, the strictest gun control law in the United States.
— co-founded the United States Climate Alliance, a group of states committed to fighting climate change by following the terms of the Paris Climate Accords.
— the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act;
— the 2011 restructured tax code that raised taxes for the wealthy and lowered taxes for the middle class;
— 12-week paid family leave along with a gradual increase of the state's minimum wage to $15; and pay equity.
More details on his governing outcomes above…
In 2007, Cuomo was active in a high-profile investigation into lending practices and anti-competitive relationships between student lenders and universities. Specifically, many universities steered student borrowers to a "preferred lender," which resulted in the borrowers' incurring higher interest rates.
This led to changes in lending policy at many major American universities.
Many universities also rebated millions of dollars in fees to affected borrowers
June 10, 2008, Cuomo announced that three major Internet service providers (Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint) would "shut down major sources of online child pornography" by no longer hosting many Usenet groups. Time Warner Cable ceased offering Usenet altogether, Sprint ended access to the 18,408 newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy, and Verizon limited its Usenet offerings to the approximately 3,000 Big 8 newsgroups. The move came after Cuomo's office located 88 different newsgroups to which child pornography had been posted.
Cuomo launched a suit against the United Homeless Organization, a New York charity. He charged that the majority of the group's income was not used to provide services to the homeless but was diverted to the founders for unrelated personal expenses. In 2010, Judge Barbara R. Kapnick granted the judgement and forced the group to disband.
Cuomo signed New York's Marriage Equality Act, introducing same-sex marriage, on June 24, 2011, following an "intense public and private lobbying campaign", and later called for all states to do the same.
Cuomo was praised for his 2011 restructuring of the New York State tax code. He was also criticized for including tax increases for high earners, and for allegedly requesting a unanimous Assembly vote in favor of the proposal and threatening to campaign against Assembly members who voted "no" – a charge he denied. Cuomo also received criticism from voices on the left who felt that the tax reform was insufficient.
January 15, 2013, Cuomo signed into law the first state gun control bill to pass after the December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in neighboring Connecticut. The NY SAFE Act was described as the toughest gun control law in the United States.
In 2013, Cuomo called for the passage of a Women's Equality Act.
The Women's Equality Act included 10 component bills affecting issues such as
domestic violence,
human trafficking,
pregnancy discrimination.
The tenth bill of the Women's Equality Act was the Reproductive Health Act, which would have "enshrine[d] in state law existing federal protections for abortion rights...
"[After] the 2014 election season was over, with Cuomo victorious, the governor and his lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul both declared the abortion plank of the act officially dormant, if not dead.”
In 2015, the non-abortion-related Women's Equality Act bills passed both houses of the State Legislature.
In October 2015, Cuomo signed eight of the 10 Women's Equality Act bills into law (no thanks to both Republican and Democratic legislative down-votes, the abortion rights bill was not among them)...
December 17, 2014, the Cuomo administration announced a ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State.
Cuomo announced an executive order against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement re Israel.
April 18, 2017, Cuomo signed the New York State 2018 fiscal year budget. that included the Excelsior Scholarship, a provision that families making less than $125,000 in 2019 could have free tuition at all SUNY and CUNY universities,
August 2017, the Cuomo administration awarded more than $7 million, financed with money from large bank settlements, in grants to New York colleges to offer courses to New York prisoners.
In January 2018, Cuomo proposed reforms that would "reduce delays during trials, ban asset seizures in cases where there has been no conviction and make it easier for former convicts to get a job after leaving prison.”
He also called for an end to cash bail for minor crimes.
In 2017
Cuomo's predecessors had spent decades and millions of dollars trying to figure out how to rebuild the Tappan Zee Bridge. Cuomo will open a new span later this year. (NewNYBridge)...
Cuomo has somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion worth of infrastructure projects underway or approved around the state, including major overhauls of Penn Station in Manhattan and JFK and LaGuardia airports. He has also devoted some $25 billion to various projects and proposals designed to boost the upstate economy.
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-cuomo-new-york-governor-progressives.html
On January 22, 2019, Cuomo signed the 2019 version of the Reproductive Health Act, which passed days after Democrats took control of the state Senate. Cuomo ordered One World Trade Center and other landmarks to be lit in pink to celebrate the bill's passage. Cuomo's signing and the lighting of the World Trade Center building sparked intense criticism from conservatives. The Catholic cardinal Timothy Dolan criticized Cuomo over the Reproductive Health Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo
December 5, 2019, Cuomo announced the $15 minimum wage phase-in starting December 31
More relatively good and bad context:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/19/andrew-cuomo-the-king-of-new-york
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/12/cuomo-new-yorks-coronavirus-crackdown-saved-thousands-of-lives/?sh=3b8c060f5f93
We have honored Democrats who do good for their states and the nation, with all their flaws; e.g., FDR, Kennedy and Clinton had sexual lives outside their marriages during their tenures, yet we've honored them as good Democrats. Cuomo has been a Clinton Democrat.
Cuomo got us through the darkest of times when no other Democratic governor could.
Yes, the outcome of AG James’ investigation matters to me; yes, he's been an unlikable, demanding asshole, lonely and stressed.
Yes, no matter how many Dems here or elsewhere chorus his ousting, Democratic Governor Cuomo deserves my support.
Our bus must take America into the 21st Century.
Biden knows that through the power of our unity, which comes through mutual support,
we flawed Democrats have the knowledge, skill and heart to drive that bus.
No ifs, buts, or howevers. Whoever Joe supports, I'll support.
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