“Terrrible Men Doing Terrible Things”-Rachel Maddow
For those of our readers who may be on the other side of the political divide, MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow hosts the most powerful news-talk show for democrats, and has the 3rd highest ranking show on Cable, behind Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
So when Maddow welcomed State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to her show on August 9, the day that Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned, it was a big deal. In her 10 minute introduction, Maddow reviewed how former Governor Eliot Spitzer, Governor David Patterson, and now Governor Cuomo had resigned their office. She also included disgraced NY republican congressmen Tom Reynolds and Chris Lee to make it a bi-partisan bashing of New York’s male elected officials, but she was correct when she called Kathy Hochul’s assention to Governor due to “terrible men in both parties doing absolutely terrible things in office, mostly but not exclusively to women and teenagers.”
Maddow then asked Stewart-Cousins “what accounts for all of these levels of men behaving terribly that led ultimately to this resignation today?”
Stewart-Cousins answered, “people get kind of enamored with their power. They get enamored with titles. They get enamored with the position that they hold over other people, and their ego kind of get really big. And sometimes people forget. For women–you have to really focus on doing your job exceptionally well in order to be able to retain it for yourself. And you also know that you don`t want to be the last, that women fight hard to get in our spaces, and we don`t want to be the last. We want to lay a path for our daughters, our granddaughters and for every other woman who might be inspired by what we do.- most women come in with a mind-set they really have to prove themselves.”
On August 10, Stewart-Cousins told Capital Tonight in Albany that she wants the investigation into Andrew Cuomo to continue, despite his resignation. “I’m interested, as I’m sure many people are, in knowing what else the governor could be held accountable for and we should be able to get some further indication what else the governor could face in the upcoming days. The Assembly’s investigation was always a bit more far-reaching than the attorney general’s investigation. But I want to be clear the attorney general’s investigation, the corroborative evidence from these 11 women who were able to stand up was convincing enough for most New Yorkers that the governor should no longer remain in office.”
Watch the Maddow intro and the Stewart-Cousins interview at –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5H5aC6BLMg
and one more piece of interest for those New Yorkers who want to know more. Ronan Farrow, yes the same Ronan Farrow that broke the story about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual perversion and rapes of women, came out with a story about Cuomo’s cancellation of the Moreland Commission back in 2014. Read that one at -https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/andrew-cuomos-war-against-a-federal-prosecutor
