Cuomo stated in his first interview since announcing his resignation earlier this week that he did not want to “drag the state” through a months-long impeachment probe just to win.
“I feel like I did the right thing. I did the right thing for the state,” Cuomo told New York Magazine of his decision to resign. “I’m not gonna drag the state through the mud, through a three-month, four-month impeachment, and then win, and have made the State Legislature and the state government look like a ship of fools.”
He insisted that it was impossible for him to subject New York to the rigors of the procedure.
“I’m not doing that. I feel good. I’m not a martyr. It’s just, I saw the options, option A, option B,” he said.
As the release of a study that indicated that he sexually assaulted almost a dozen women raised more pressure on him to quit, Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday, effective August 24th. Following an initial investigation by the Assembly, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was placed on leave by the Assembly on Friday.
“The purpose of the Assembly Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation was to determine whether Governor Cuomo should remain in office. The governor’s resignation answers that directive,” Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said Friday.
As of today, it is unclear where the governor will reside. The governor has resided only in the Albany governor’s house in recent years. Cuomo replied, “I have no idea what I’ll do.”
But he insisted that he wasn’t “going away.”
Cuomo made the comment: “I have a voice, I have a perspective, and that’s not going to change.” It really doesn’t matter to me which little information I do tell you. You know, don’t you? I am a New Yorker and I have lived here, so that’s… I have no problem with that. That’ll be taken care of. “To me, I believe I did the correct thing.”
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