A former executive assistant to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who had accused him of groping her has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment.

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    Cuomos are bad news, and I say that as a Dem.

    Cuomos, Bloomberg, etc. They’re just Republicans who know you can’t be Republican without being run out of town.

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    When people argue it is enough to have them step down and “go away”, they are working under the assumption that the politicians have any shame whatsoever. They don’t, and barring some jail time they will just try to get back in power over and over again.

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    The lawsuit claims then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul demoted Commisso "from the position of Executive Assistant to the Governor, removed her from the Executive Chamber front office, and assigned her to the demeaning task of answering telephones in the Lieutenant Governor’s office

    Seems the CURRENT governor’s even more of a corrupt piece of shit than we already knew too! 🤬

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “The continuous sexual harassment by defendant Cuomo included unwelcome sexual advances, sexualized comments about appearance and personal matters, relations, their dating, their sex life, and her marriage, assignment of humiliating and demeaning tasks, hugs, kisses, sexual touching of the buttocks, and forcible touching of the breast all of which was objectively unreasonable and abusive and reasonably perceived by plaintiff as being abusive and an adverse alteration of the conditions and terms of employment she was required to suffer to maintain her employment and avoid adverse changes in the condition and terms of employment which, in fact, she later suffered in retaliation for rejecting and reporting the same,” the lawsuit alleges.

    Kathy Hochul demoted Commisso “from the position of Executive Assistant to the Governor, removed her from the Executive Chamber front office, and assigned her to the demeaning task of answering telephones in the Lieutenant Governor’s office until moved to other offices, including loss of overtime, ostracism, given little or no work, demotion, and loss of career opportunities and Advancement” after Commisso allegedly rejected Cuomo’s offer to date her.

    Commisso had previously filed a misdemeanor criminal complaint against Cuomo, accusing him of "intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly place[d] his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim and onto her intimagte body part.

    “It disgusts me that Andrew Cuomo is even considering running for public office in the wake of (New York City) Mayor Adam’s alleged sexual harassment when he himself will not accept responsibility or even acknowledge his sexual harassment of me, aside from numerous other victims, while the governor of our state,” Commisso told CBS News in a statement Friday through her attorney.

    Commisso, a single mother, told “CBS Mornings” that she never planned on going public with her allegations, partly because she was worried about what might happen to her daughter.

    Commisso was one of 11 women whose allegations were featured in a report by New York Attorney General Letitia James.


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