A former prime aide for ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated her former boss is unfit to guide NYC and predicts “ladies’s rights” will endure if he’s elected NYC’s subsequent mayor.
“As a motion, we girls haven’t completed sufficient to toughen legal guidelines to guard ladies from such immoral, unethical, and what ought to be unlawful conduct by males in positions of energy, akin to Cuomo,” stated Karen Hinton, who claims Cuomo made undesirable sexual advances in direction of her in 2000, when he was U.S. Secretary of Housing and City Growth.
“This election ought to be a chance to make the case for girls’s rights, to offer ladies a robust, highly effective voice in Metropolis Corridor… [New York City] received’t get it if [Mayor Eric] Adams or Cuomo is elected,” she instructed The Submit.
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Hinton stated Cuomo can be extra “cautious” round ladies if he’s elected mayor, as a result of the three-term governor “discovered just a few classes” after resigning in 2021 following a report by state Lawyer Basic Letitia James that discovered he sexually harassed 11 ladies, and that some prime aides helped undermine his accusers.
However voters — and potential workers — ought to beware, she warned.
“Men and women workers ought to by no means belief him. He can be very demanding. Good in the future; nasty the following. Your greatest pal; then your worst enemy,” she insisted.
Hinton, who was not a part of the James’ report, stepped ahead shortly after it was launched and accused Cuomo of sexual harassment earlier than he resigned.
In her 2021 e-book, “Penis Politics,” Hinton claimed Cuomo talked about lurid intercourse together with his underlings, together with salacious issues involving his ex-in-laws, the Kennedys — who, like Cuomo, have denied the allegations.
Cuomo has additionally denied Hinton’s declare that he was bodily “aroused” when he allegedly hugged her when she was his HUD press aide.
“He approached me, embraced too tightly, too lengthy, and was aroused,” Hinton beforehand instructed The Submit. “I felt extraordinarily uncomfortable and truly shocked. Nothing had ever occurred that approach between the 2 of us.”
Cuomo has adamantly denied all allegations of sexual harassment and has repeatedly accused Hinton of getting a political ax to grind.
Hinton – a Mississippi native who’s married to ex-state operations director Howard Glaser — went to work for then-NYC Mayor Invoice de Blasio in 2015 at a time when a political feud between de Blasio and Cuomo was simmering, leaving Cuomo fuming on the time, in response to a number of sources and previous media reviews.
She resigned as de Blasio’s prime press aide in 2016, partially as a result of she felt undermined by de Blasio, sources then instructed The Submit.
Evaluating the 2 Democrats she stated: “De Blasio, to my data, by no means made sexual overtures to ladies — he simply didn’t take heed to them.”
Hinton stated she’s particularly on this 12 months’s mayoral race – which exhibits Cuomo forward within the latest polls – as a result of she nonetheless has three daughters who stay in NYC.
“New York Metropolis could elect a mayor who has been rightfully accused of sexual misconduct by a number of younger ladies who labored for him in up-close positions,” she claimed.
Cuomo spokesman Wealthy Azzopardi stated his longtime boss continues to adamantly deny committing sexual harassment.
“As we stated from day one, the [governor] didn’t harass anybody – and years later, the details have borne that out,” he stated.
“New Yorkers aren’t naive and perceive that ugly political state of affairs for precisely what it was. At the moment, New York Metropolis is in disaster – a disaster of affordability, public security and management, and that what Gov. Cuomo is concentrated on: The struggle to avoid wasting our metropolis.”
When requested particularly about Hinton’s remarks, he quipped “Hinton’s perspective towards the governor has all the time been based mostly on what’s greatest for Hinton and whether or not or not she has a e-book to promote.”
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