The top leaders in Albany remained silent late Saturday when two more women came forward to argue that Governor Andrew Cuomo had behaved inappropriately.
State Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, (D-Westchester), did not immediately support her position when she said the governor should resign if a fourth accuser appears.
The number of accused now stands at five, including four women who worked for the governor.
“If more people come forward, I think it’s time to resign,” Stewart-Cousins said Thursday.
Member of Parliament Mike Lawler (R-Rockland County) quickly called the Senate leader.
“@AndreaSCousins, we now have five accused alleging predatory sexual behavior by the high-ranking elected official in our state – one more than the red line you laid down two days ago. It’s time. The residents of the state of NY earn nothing less. Ask for his resignation, ” tweeted Lawler.
A message to Stewart-Cousins was not immediately returned.
The speaker of the meeting, Carl Heastie, (D-The Bronx) also held her mother in the hours after the former assistant of Albany, Ana Liss, and Karen Hinton, a former assistant of Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and urban development, has emerged.
Others were more straightforward.
“He’s a Toast,” Member of Parliament Tom Abinanti, (D-Westchester) tweeted from the Governor.
‘Cuomo must resign or we must accuse him. The damage and damage and hurt he inflicted must end. I plead for my colleagues to have the power to speak and the will to act, ” tweeted Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan).
Ron Kim, a meeting of the Queens, who was on the receiving end of angry phone calls from the governor after Kim’s criticism of the administration’s handling of the nursing home scandal, reiterated his own call for indictment.
“Cuomo’s reign of corruption, his shameful abuse of power, his destruction of people’s lives could end if our state legislature had the courage to plead,” Kim tweeted.
