Another Cuomo Victim Cries For His Immediate Resignation

In New York State, you would be hard-pressed to find many elected officials who are still clinging to hope that Governor Andrew Cuomo can turn his political career around.

The Empire State Democrat is in serious trouble thanks to many stories of sexual misconduct, the most recent of which have revolved around a half dozen women who’ve accused Cuomo of sexual abuse and harassment.

But perhaps his most horrid controversy has been lost in the mix, at least in the national media. One New York State lawmaker hasn’t forgotten, however, and he’s issuing a stern warning for the Governor.

As mourners gathered outside a Brooklyn nursing home nearly a year after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a directive requiring them to admit residents with coronavirus, Democratic State Assemblyman Ron Kim promised accountability.

Kim, whose uncle died in a nursing home after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, spoke at the “We Care Memorial Wall” on Sunday, joining others who lost loved ones.

Kim has been a vocal critic of the governor after he claimed Cuomo wanted him to help cover up his administration’s intentional withholding of statistics of nursing home deaths. Kim claims that Cuomo threatened to have him “destroyed” after he refused to go along with Cuomo’s explanation for why the data was kept from state lawmakers.

Kim did not mince his words.

“This is about decent human beings coming together taking on the most powerful politician in the state of New York because together decency will win,” he said. “And together we will get to the truth. And that’s why I know–I know that this governor will be held accountable, that I know that his reign of abusive power will end soon. Because there are way too many decent people in the city of New York to let this guy go unchecked.”

Cuomo has consistently refused to resign in recent weeks, despite a number of high-profile members of his own party demanding that the controversy-plagued politician hang it up.