“Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations,” Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said in a joint statement, “it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York.”
example of a politician calling on his resignation and assuming the attitudes of NYers
I’m old, which doesn’t make me tolerant of abuse of women, whether in the home or the workplace, far from it. But women my age distinguished
She claims that she had more 'experience' sniffing out the creeps. But does this really matter if, at the end of the day, she didn't experience cuomo's actions first-hand? She fights this line of questioning by listing 'big names' that she doesn't know personally as evidence for the 'breadth of her experience'. Is it also fair to validate someone's trauma because they were more likely to be less 'experienced' with sexual harrassment? the logic here is flawed, but the conflation of old-age wisdom with ___ creates a mental shortcut around that jumble of logic.
Another note, this article leaves out critical parts of her logic (seen in her full statement https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/opinion/letters/cuomo-harassment-claims.html) that are much more subject to outrage than what they selected to include here... (COME BACK AFTER READING TO EXPLORE WHY THE AUTHOR MIGHT HAVE DONE THIS)
A poll released on Monday
https://scri.siena.edu/2021/03/15/voters-say-cuomo-should-not-resign-50-35/
Legal experts say that ambiguity is one reason politicians almost never bother suing each other for not telling the truth. Because of their celebrity, people like Trump and Clinton have much more to lose by hauling their opponents into court for libel suits they stand to gain."It's just not worth it," Stephen Solomon, associate director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, tells Business Insider.
A reason why politicians can't fight back, or have to be careful about fighting back