Andrew Cuomo sexually harrassed mutiple women

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When Republicans are the target of accusations, the whole party turns their back on you.

And, bless his heart, nobody was ever going to sincerely vote for Sanders, either.

I think the reason for this difference comes down to the parties beliefs regarding people: The Democrats tend to be more "collective" focussed, putting people into groups, whereas the Republicans are more "independant"\individualistic in nature (also demonstrated in the way one party pushes for "representation" for groups, whilst the other looks towards individual "merit"). As a result, the Democrats defend their own, seeing an attack on one of their "tribe" as being an attack on the tribe as a whole, whereas the Republicans see similar actions as only reflecting on that individual, and not as a representation of the party.

This leads to the Democrats appearing as a unified group, but at the same time gives rise to the appearance that they tolerate certain behavious simply because they defend those of their tribe so strongly when accusations against them are made. On the other side, it gives the Republicans the ability to show they do not tolerate certain behaviour through removal of those people acting in certain ways, but also gives the appearance they do not support others in their tribe...The balance between defending the tribe and upholding the principle is what sets the 2 sides apart.

Oh, where are you Rashida, where are you?

Please share your eloquence and wisdom again ...

I haven't seen any Rs or Qs turn their backs on Matt Gaetz.
Or on any of the accusations of being white supremacists.
Or accusations of anti-semitism.
Or accusations of being a Jan 6 co-conspirator.
They all seem to band together to vote "no" on any- and every-thing.

Liz Cheney is the only person I've seen them turn their backs on lately.


You were probably locked behind a filter bubble and couldn't see it, but support for Bernie was pretty huge. Almost everyone I knew was rooting for him, and they were all pretty bummed when it ended up being "vote for the lesser or two evils".
I really don't like any politicians at all, EVER, but I really liked him.

The president of the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization is facing calls to resign over his alleged role in efforts to discredit a woman who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.

Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David, who served as the embattled governor’s chief counsel from 2015-19, is mentioned dozens of times throughout a report released Tuesday by the New York Attorney General’s Office that concluded Cuomo sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and violated the law.

LGBTQ advocates calling for David to step down say they are particularly alarmed by several incidents from December that they allege show David aided in efforts to discredit one of the governor’s accusers. Most of the incidents mentioned in the report took place while David was serving as president of the Human Rights Campaign.

David, who called for Cuomo to resign Tuesday after the report’s release, told NBC News in an email Thursday that the findings “made me sick to my stomach.

“I was never aware of any allegations of sexual misconduct, and no one ever reported them to me, as the report verifies,” he said. “Of the 11 survivors, I only directly engaged with one, and that was on a personnel matter that had nothing to do with sexual misconduct.”

The report verifies that no one reported allegations of sexual misconduct to David during his employment as the governor’s chief counsel, and that he only had contact with one of Cuomo’s accusers, Lindsey Boylan, regarding a personnel matter. According to the report, David first became aware of Boylan’s allegations in December 2020 — while he was president of the Human Rights Campaign

After Boylan first began tweeting about the governor in early December, Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s secretary, asked David for a confidential personnel file on Boylan from her time working in the executive chamber, according to emails and text message exchanges cited in the report. David, who had met with Boylan after other employees had filed complaints against Boylan, directed DeRosa to the governor’s acting counsel, who shared the full file with DeRosa, according to the report.

DeRosa has not responded to a request for comment and has not issued a public response to the attorney general’s report.

A few days later, David shared additional documents “relating to his investigation into and counseling” of Boylan for personnel matters, according to David’s testimony. He sent the documents to Richard Azzopardi, Cuomo’s senior deputy communications director and senior adviser at the time, and testified that he kept a copy of the documents even after he left his job as Cuomo’s chief counsel because it “may have been the only instance where [he] was actually involved in a counseling of an employee when [he] was in the Executive Chamber,” the report says.

In an effort to discredit Boylan, Cuomo’s aides later leaked the file — which included the documents David shared — to a number of news outlets, along with a statement that there was “no truth” to her claims, according to the report.

The report does not claim that David was involved in the decision to leak the file.

In another alleged incident described in the report, Cuomo’s aides — not including David — pressured a former staffer to call a woman named Kaitlin, who had tweeted in support of Boylan after she initially tweeted her accusations. DeRosa “was looking for information about if [Kaitlin] was working with Lindsey [Boylan] or if she had allegations against the Governor,” the report says. Investigators also allege that David was involved in discussions about recording the call, though a source familiar with the situation told NBC News that David does not recall having any such conversations and did not know Kaitlin, whose last name is not included in the report.

In another alleged incident around Dec. 15, David was involved in the circulation of a letter or op-ed that “denied the legitimacy of Ms. Boylan’s allegations, impugned her credibility, and attacked her claims as politically motivated,” according to the report.

Though the letter was never published or sent, investigators found that “its substance was shared with a significant number of current and former Executive Chamber employees who were not otherwise aware of the information in it,” and that the way the governor’s office responded to Boylan’s allegations amounted to unlawful retaliation.

It later notes that “Mr. David testified that he did not agree to have his name attached to the statement because he did not know if the statements in it were true and he did not think it was a good response.”

Roberta Kaplan, an attorney who successfully argued the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, also saw the letter, according to investigators, and she showed it to Tina Tchen, the head of advocacy at Time’s Up, a charity that support’s victims of sexual harassment.

Kaplan has not returned a request for comment, but told The Washington Post that she “made it very clear that any response should never shame an accuser.”

“Given the revelations in the New York Attorney General report, I support and agree with Time’s Up that Governor Cuomo should resign,” she added.

In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Tchen wrote that she has never given advice to the governor or his team.

“I’m furious that the Governor’s office used me and TIME’S UP as a justification for their defense,” she wrote. “TIME’S UP is an organization that has always centered survivors while holding those committing harm accountable. Any characterization of us to the contrary is simply not true.”

The same source familiar with the situation told NBC News that even after the letter discrediting Boylan was revised, David refused to sign it because he was not familiar with many of the references in it. The source also corroborated David’s claim that he was not advised of any sexual misconduct claims that the office may have been aware of.

According to press reports, David is facing pressure from some Human Rights Campaign staff to step down. In an all-staff meeting Wednesday, employees asked him to resign several times, according to The Washington Post and HuffPost, which both reportedly obtained audio of the meeting. The Human Rights Campaign did not respond to NBC News’ requests seeking to verify these reports.

A few officials and advocates have publicly called on David to resign.

and another group indulging in "whataboutisms" in order to try and excuse the behaviour which was in the report (whether through "solidarity" with the side that is the target of the report, or because they see nothing wrong with the behaviour identified in the report is an open question).

What is "MF"?

What is Motherf---er?

Liz Cheney is the only person I've seen them turn their backs on lately.

There’s also Adam Kinzinger. If he runs for president in ‘24, I would consider him.