Cuomo’s staffers skip going to work amid governor’s growing controversies,

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Sources claimed that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) staffers have not been going to executive offices amid the governor’s sexual misconduct allegations.
• An ex-aide said that staffers have either chosen to work remotely or do their work at vaccine sites.
• At least five of Cuomo’s aides quit their post in the last two weeks.

According to sources, enlightened staffers of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) have not been reporting from work following his sexual misconduct controversies.

“I hear that most people aren’t even coming into work, and the offices at the Capitol are empty,” per one insider in touch with the governor’s personnel.

“He’ll fight and fight and fight, but the staffers I’ve talked to are ready for him to hang up the gloves. Everyone feels like there is an inevitable conclusion — I mean at some point will Biden call on him to step down? They [staffers] just want this torture to stop.”

Defiance among the governor’s team grew further on Friday as their leader remained firm not to resign while blaming “cancel culture” for his political deterioration.

“I feel a level of rage toward this fake tough guy,” a former aide said of Cuomo, per another source. “The guy thinks he’s the toughest, the hardest working, he’s the smartest. The truth is, he’s anything but. He’s the weakest, he’s the dumbest, and he’s the most shallow of them all. He is genuinely a very small man who pretends to be big.”

Per the ex-aide, many staffers have opted to remote workly or spend their duty at vaccine sites, rather than reporting to the executive offices. Workers have grown weary that their careers could be in danger amid continuously working in curbing out the pandemic.

“Sometimes you have an ability to claim to be out in the field,” the former aide said.

On Friday morning, the ex-aide also shared an SMS message from a current staffer that read: “He has to resign now right? (I say for the 15th time this week).”

Sources claimed that all the present staffers were in favor of Cuomo’s resignation and also trust the sexual accusations of the seven women.

“There’s a deep sense within the governor’s staff that he is guilty of everything, and that is weighing on people,” the ex-aide said. “He had that conversation with Charlotte Bennett. Everyone knows that. Everyone believes that full stop and there’s not a single person who believes she’s telling a word that’s off.”

Rich Azzopardi, the governor’s representative, said on Saturday that the reports of workers’ exiting were “greatly exaggerated.”

“There’s a budget to be done in two weeks, the largest vaccination effort is state history to stand up and the continued efforts to successfully fight this once in a century pandemic and that’s what the hard-working members of this administration and the state workforce are focused on — period,” he said.

In the past two weeks, about five aides have announced their resignations.

Source: New York Post