Jfc, he spent $20 million of taxpayer dollars to defend himself in court? Why the fuck do politicians get to use public funds to legally defend themselves?
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If they didn't, then the result would be constant SLAPP suits against politicians that are disliked by a certain type of asshole.
What should happen is that money should be instantly applied to the politician as debt when the case is lost.
That's a good middle ground of protecting them from the worst actors, but not from their actual actions.
I would also love it if a plaintiff attorney could act as a prosecutor in cases of corruption or violated rights, with the ability to send politicians (and cops) to prison when they violate rights.
The current arrangement is not acceptable.
Good god. No wonder Trump supported him.
"Im not a sex pest, I'm iTaLiAn"
-Cuomo more or less
“Mr. Cuomo, in 2021, thirteen different women who worked in your administration credibly accused you of sexual harassment,” said Mamdani. “Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself, all while describing these allegations as entirely political. You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening.”
I didn't even know this happened at a debate. Nice
Reminds me of when Liz Warren slaughtered Mike Bloomberg onstage during a debate. His campaign nosedived after it and never recovered!
Literally at the election result party where at no point did he even have an excuse of being overwhelmed with positive emotion...
It wouldn't be a valid excuse, but it's a frequent excuse. He was just drunk and wanted to kiss her, and it didn't matter what she wanted or consented to. Even in a room with a bunch of people and journalists.
The guy is a complete piece of shit, and so is everyone that knows him and endorsed him.
In the pictures she looks scared and trying to turn away while he grabs her neck. This was legit sexual assault in broad daylight and documented by the press in real time...
No one deserves to be sexually harassed or assaulted. Just wish his lawyer figured that out sooner.
Jesus, After seeing those awful ads against Mandami, Mandami could just have run this as his whole campaign.
“average new yorker harasses women” factoid actualy just statistical error. Sexual Harassment Georg, who used to be mayor and sexually harasses over 10,000 women each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It is true a lot of crime statistics across the US are skewed horribly by a minority of chronic, repeat offenders.
That's everywhere. Most people just live their lives. Outliers drive almost everything.
Lawyers are hired to defend you, regardless of whether or not you're guilty. She may not have liked this, but she can't claim she was surprised.
The dude lost, why the fuck are we still talking about him? jfc
He lost this election. Who knows what else he may run for in future. He also didn't stop being a public figure.
gee a rapist from New York, no way he could ever be President.
Twice.
Is he in his 70's yet?
Why would we assume it's not consensual? It would make sense if they're fucking.
Why would we assume its not consensual?
The title made me assume it wasn't but the article doesn't say anything about it not having been consensual. Clickbait
You should look at the photos.
I saw them, they were in the article
If you think she looks OK with what is happening, you should take a long, hard look at your life.
I don't think I can know from such a candid photo if consent was given beforehand but alright. An confirmation that it was unconsensual from the person involved would be nice though