Ask them [older male gropers] to acknowledge and validate your feelings according to today's norms, even if these norms did not exist when the event happened.

To advise victims that their best course of action is not to report harassment to their supervisor, or HR department, or follow the policies laid out by their employer to report incidents of harassment, but instead write a letter to the harasser and explain how he/she made you uncomfortable boarders on ludicrous.

"Is there anyone who believes Andrew Cuomo will continue acting and speaking to women in a way they find objectionable after what he's been put through the past few weeks?" The answer is yes, because he's a privileged, sanctimonious, narcists who will always have people around him who will go to any lengths, including breaking the law, to protect him.

That investigation found Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, current and former state employees as well as a number of women outside of government. Investigators reported unwelcome and non-consensual touching and suggestive comments of a sexual nature.

The call to resign by the Democratic president and other Democratic leaders was neither a charge of felony nor a suit for civil recompense. It was the acknowledgement of the investigation's findings that the governor's conduct created a hostile work environment for women and that such conduct deserves the loss of political support. The penalty called for, therefore, is not prison or monetary settlement, but the loss of a nice job. The issue is the continued fitness for office, a political assessment, not necessarily one that needs to await criminal or civil resolution.

Elected officials who abuse their power or are grossly incompetent or recklessly negligent, ranging from the conduct of Cuomo to that of DeSantis, and of course, the former guy, deserve to lose their political base and be asked to resign prior to the completion of their elected term of office. The conduct may or may not be subject to the criminal justice system or to civil action--that is another matter and for another jurisdiction.

So not surprisingly, when the governor finally tripped over his own hubris and showed serious vulnerability in the final few months, it was quickly knives out for New York Democrats. Acting on the premise that if you're going against the king, you better get the king, they got the king. If you think about it, it's been a rather spectacular and relatively swift fall from grace for His Graciousness -- which is, admittedly, a pretty low bar for grace but that's another subject for another time.

Let's remember that only 17 months ago, after apparently being mesmerized by his performance art during the first wave of the COVID pandemic in the northeastern U.S., a not-insignificant number of fairly prominent people in both politics and the media were touting Cuomo as a potential Democratic presidential nominee. Today, mired in scandal and shunned by his own party, he's slinking out of Albany by the back door.

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