{"id":296459,"date":"2021-07-11T21:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-loses-major-ally-amid-ongoing-scandals\/"},"modified":"2021-07-11T21:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:53:50","slug":"ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-loses-major-ally-amid-ongoing-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-loses-major-ally-amid-ongoing-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo loses major ally amid ongoing scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo loses major ally amid ongoing scandals<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Things are really going off the rails for Gov. Andrew Cuomo!<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s grip on power in Albany suffered a big blow amid mounting scandals \u2014 with the head of the state\u2019s largest transit union saying he is looking for another horse to back in next year\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t go to Cuomo\u2019s recent fundraiser. I\u2019m over him,\u201d TWU International President John Samuelsen told The Post after nearly every other top labor leader in the state stumped for Cuomo at the June 29 high-dollar soiree.<\/p>\n

The powerful national head of Transport Workers Union, which represents 48,562 subway and bus workers in New York, is looking for an alternative to the scandal-tarred incumbent.<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I considering an alternative to Cuomo for governor? Absolutely. Definitely,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are not going to continue to support dishonest brokers \u2014 and Cuomo is one. I\u2019m not going to support a guy who doesn\u2019t support my members.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo has been under fire for months amid dueling investigations, including an impeachment inquiry, into several allegations of sexual harassment and his administration\u2019s handling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.<\/p>\n

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TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen said he is no longer backing Andrew Cuomo amid the governor\u2019s string of scandals.<\/figcaption>
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Federal investigators are also probing alleged misuse of state resources to write his $5.1 million pandemic memoir, \u201cAmerican Crisis.\u201d The governor has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

TWU backed Cuomo in his 2018 reelection bid against Cynthia Nixon, who made the governor\u2019s management of the MTA a key issue. Samuelsen at the time blasted the actress-turned-pol as an out-of-touch \u201copportunist\u201d with a grudge against MTA workers.<\/p>\n

Samuelsen said the tables have turned with the barrage of scandals orbiting Cuomo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could the labor movement support someone for governor who engaged in workforce criminality, sexual harassment?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

The former Cuomo ally also groaned about plans to split the MTA\u2019s top job into two positions and use non-union labor at Grand Central Terminal, as well as the Cuomo\u2019s response to reports in 2019 of overtime abuse and fraud at the Long Island Rail Road.<\/p>\n

LIRR workers are not represented by TWU, but Cuomo brought the gauntlet down on the entire transit workforce. He hired a former prosecutor to investigate grift and graft, while enacting extra regulations to curtail spending and prevent fraud across the MTA. <\/p>\n

Six MTA workers now face federal fraud charges; none of them are TWU members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a fictional artillery assault on transit workers. It was overtime slander,\u201d Samuelsen said. \u201cI don\u2019t have members employed by the Long Island Rail Road. Not one TWU member was engaged in overtime fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Samuelsen also lambasted Cuomo\u2019s proposal to split the MTA\u2019s top job into two positions, and a plan to use non-union labor at the new LIRR terminal set to open beneath Grand Central in 2022.<\/p>\n

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John Samuelsen said he\u2019s \u201cover\u201d Andrew Cuomo.<\/figcaption>
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Many elected Democrats have broken with Cuomo and called for his resignation over sexual harassment allegations amid multiple probes. But Samuelsen is the first prominent labor leader to publicly break with Cuomo, while other union presidents have either stood with the governor or kept quiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuomo doesn\u2019t have friends in organized labor. He has unions who have short-term interests in front of the governor,\u201d Samuelsen.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s June 29 fundraiser was stacked with labor bigwigs. George Gresham, president of the powerful healthcare union SEIU 1199, introduced Cuomo at the event.<\/p>\n

Other attendees included Mario Cilento, president of the NYS AFL-CIO; Gary LaBarbera, head of the New York Building and Trades Council; 32 BJ president Kyle Bragg; Stuart App<\/a>elbaum, head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and Dennis Trainor and Robert Masters of the Communication Workers of America, among others.<\/p>\n

Nearly two-thirds of voters in a recent Siena College poll said the third-term governor should resign or not seek a fourth term. Samuelsen said other unions will abandon ship if Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James finds he broke the law and harassed female staffers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could the labor movement support someone for governor who engaged in workforce criminality, sexual harassment? Look what happened to Scott Stringer,\u201d he said, referring to how decades-old unproven sexual harassment claims derailed the city comptroller\u2019s mayoral candidacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Cuomo is found guilty in the report, you will see the trade unions start pulling away from him. No doubt about it. If the report demonstrates Cuomo violated workplace laws regarding sexual harassment, he should go [resign]. You\u2019ll see his support evaporate if there are findings of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s campaign had no immedia<\/a>te comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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