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Andrew Cuomo 'terrified' ex-staffer with intimate questions about her past rape

Aleksandra Serebriakova
Sputnik
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:02 UTC
Andrew Cuomo
© AP/Seth WenigNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo clearly signaled on Wednesday that he was not planning to resign over a flux of sexual harassment claims. Three women have come forward to accuse the politician of inappropriate behavior.

Andrew Cuomo's former aide Charlotte Bennett, who is accusing the New York Governor of sexual harassment, says she was left "terrified" by her exchanges with the politician last year, after he repeatedly asked her about her experience being raped and whether she was "sensitive to intimacy" now.

"I thought, he's trying to sleep with me," Bennett told CBS' Norah O'Donnell in her first televised interview since going public with her allegations against the Democratic politician. "The governor's trying to sleep with me and I'm deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible," Cuomo's former health policy advisor added.

According to Bennett, she didn't feel like she "had a choice" to stop her interaction with Cuomo at that point. "He is my boss. He is everyone's boss," she said, after nearly breaking into tears during the interview.

Cuomo issued a televised apology for his "embarrassing" behaviour on Wednesday - shortly after another woman accused him of inappropriately touching and harassing her at a wedding reception in September 2019.

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Texas State Rep. introduces bill to finish Trump's border wall

Jennie Taer
saraacarter.com
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Wall unfinished
© Russell JohnsonTrump's wall
Amid a tense national debate over the U.S.-Mexico border, a Texas lawmaker is pushing for the construction of former President Donald Trump's border wall to continue.

Since President Biden took office in January, he has signed a slew of executive orders that reverse many of Trump's policies. One of those orders included striking down the ongoing construction of the Southern border wall.

Texas Stae Rep. Bryan Slaton has introduced legislation before the Texas house to "finish President Trump's wall in Texas." Further, the bill seeks to name the wall after Trump, according to The Texan.

Comment: While there are many issues to consider in 'the now' and 'thereafter' (as the Trump administration did in making the decision to erect the wall) - the Biden administration is absent on any kind of thought and plan, though right on target to add chaos, lawlessness and penalty to American citizens regarding their health, income and security.



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Two more women accuse Governor Cuomo of inappropriate behavior

Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:49 UTC
Liss/Cuomo/Hinton
© Robert Miller/LinkedIn/APEx-Cuomo aide Ana Liss • NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo • Former press aide Karen Hinton
Two more women came forward Saturday to accuse Gov. Cuomo of sexually harassing behavior, including a former press aide who describes struggling to free herself from his repeated hugs, and a young assistant who now says he left her feeling like "just a skirt."

Former press aide Karen Hinton endured a "very long, too long, too tight, too intimate" embrace from Cuomo in a dimly lit Los Angeles hotel room in December 2000, she told the Washington Post. The married Hinton pulled away, but "he pulls me back for another intimate embrace," she told the paper. "I thought at that moment it could lead to a kiss, it could lead to other things, so I just pull away again, and I leave."

At the time, Cuomo led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A current rep for Cuomo strongly denied Hinton's allegation to the newspaper, claiming "this did not happen."

Hinton's claims are made all the more startling given that her husband is lobbyist Howard Glaser, a longtime Cuomo ally and confidante who worked as his director of state operations and senior policy advisor until 2014.

The other new accuser, Ana Liss, a policy and operations aide who worked for the governor from 2013 to 2015, said he'd behaved inappropriately while on the job in Albany.

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CDC allows Biden's 'child migrant shelters' fill to 100% despite COVID concern

Stef W. Kight
Axios
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:54 UTC
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© Sergio Flores/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesIntensive care tents at overflow shelter in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
The Centers for Disease Control is allowing shelters handling child migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to expand to full capacity, abandoning a requirement that they stay near 50% to inhibit the spread of the coronavirus, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The fact that the country's premier health advisory agency is permitting a change in COVID-19 protocols indicates the scale of the immigration crisis. A draft memo obtained by Axios conceded "facilities should plan for and expect to have COVID-19 cases."
  • The document goes on to recommend detailed ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in shelters.
  • It encourages operators to continue giving COVID-19 tests to newly arrived children, follow 14-day quarantine guidelines, wear masks, improve ventilation and ensure they save room for isolating any child who tests positive, among other actions.
  • The memo states that there "is no 0% risk scenario" given the coronavirus, so "facilities should plan for and expect to have COVID-19 cases," CNN first reported.
  • A spokesperson for HHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Comment: Will this be another case of a "Mean Tweets Trump" policy being proven correct? Those on the ground believe so:
Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Canton) filed legislation on Thursday to direct the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to finish former President Trump's border wall project using state funds.

The state representative contended that President Biden should not stop Texans from finishing what the last administration started.

"President Trump fought to bring real border security and was opposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. While hundreds of miles of new wall were built under his leadership, the Biden administration has already ceased border wall construction," Slaton said in a press statement.

"It is time for Texas to stand up and finish the work that President Trump started. Let's finish building the border wall now," he added.


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Reporter reveals US DOJ dismissed dozens of misdemeanor and felony charges laid after last year's Portland rioting

Doug P.
twitchy.com
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 17:38 UTC
Merrick Garland: Portland Riots May Not Be ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Because Courthouse Was Closed
Portland rioter
Last year Portland, Oregon was among cities that saw plenty of property destruction, violence, arson and unrest in the city. There were many arrests for felony and misdemeanor offenses, but not all will be held accountable, as KGW investigative journalist Kyle Iboshi has reported:


Comment: Part of the blame might be laid at the feet of the Soros-backed Open Society Foudation, which involved itself in many district attorney election races, in a bid to place those friendly to its ideology in office.

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'Nomadland' China release in doubt after director Zhao revealed to have said China is "a place where there are lies everywhere"


Strait Times
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 14:07 UTC
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© AFPMs Chloe Zhao became the first Asian woman in history to win the best director Golden Globe.
A nationalist backlash to Golden Globe-winning American road movie "Nomadland" has cast doubt over the film's China release after social media users and state media questioned its director Chloe Zhao's loyalty to her birth country.

Ms Zhao became the first Asian woman in history to win the best director Golden Globe and the first woman to win best drama with the semi-fictional film, which stars Oscar winner Frances McDormand alongside a rag-tag bunch of non-actors living on the open road in the American West.

Ms Zhao's win last week was initially celebrated in China, with state media calling the Beijing-born filmmaker a "Chinese female director" and "the pride of China."
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US campus libs think they're promoting 'diversity' by holding a panel on 'black sex' for black students only. Seriously!

Zachary Leeman
RT
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:27 UTC
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Tulane University in New Orleans held a "sex-positive" week filled with virtue-signaling, borefest events for students, the strangest of which was a talk on "black sex" that was race exclusive.

Billed as a "diverse week of comprehensive, queer-inclusive, culturally-specific, sex-positive sexual health events and conversations," Tulane's 'sex week' contained some understandable topics like one on safe sex, another on "reconnecting with your sexuality after trauma," as well as some predictably woke happenings to prove the school's promise of "diversity." One panel, however, flew in the face of that "diversity."

'Let's Talk About Black Sex, Baby!' was held Thursday evening - for "black students only."


On its webpage, organizers invited students to "join New Horizons for a real-talk, relaxing evening and safe space to talk about Black sexuality."

"The event will feature an interactive panel of students and staff discussing the unique experiences Black femme-identifying and nonbinary people face on campus," they wrote.

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Texas school district removes assignment about 'chivalry' after parents object to the rules imposed on female students

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 06:39 UTC
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© AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images
School district officials in Texas removed a lesson meant to teach students the rules of "chivalry" after parents expressed their outrage over the rules imposed on girls.

The assignment was given to students of a Shallowater ISD high school classroom near Lubbock.

The story went viral when a copy of the lesson was posted on Twitter on Wednesday.


The lesson asked the ladies of the class to "demonstrate to the school how the code of chivalry and standards set in the medieval concept of courtly love carries over into the modern day."
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MSNBC Host's crazy comments sparks outrage from conservatives

Adam Schrader, Hannah Parry & Stephanie Haney
DailyMail
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
  • MSNBC host Joy Reid's comments have been slammed for apparent hypocrisy after previous homophobic comments she has made
  • Reid's response was made to a thread of tweets from MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson and former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss
  • Weiss' tweet sparking the conversation promoted an op-ed piece she wrote for the Deseret News in which she slammed the 'illiberal left'
  • Reid's tweet came the same day she said white people want black people to 'get their behinds into the factory and make me my steaks'
  • In 2018, Reid's tweets about 'rentboys' and 'grimey closet-cases' resurfaced
Joy Reid
© MSNBCMSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Texas was reopening because white people want black people back 'making them steaks'
MSNBC host Joy Reid sparked outrage this week when she tweeted that conservatives would trade tax cuts to use the n-word.

Reid's comments have been slammed for apparent hypocrisy after stirring up previous homophobic comments the embattled news host and political commentator has made.

'I'll say it again: people on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the n-word like in 'the good old days',' Reid tweeted.

'To them, not being able to be openly racist and discriminatory without consequence is oppression. Trump is the avatar for this 'freedom'.'

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Cuomo advisers convinced DOH to omit certain nursing home COVID deaths from official tally

Bernadette Hogan, Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:30 UTC
Cuomo
© Matthew McDermottNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Top advisers to Gov. Andrew Cuomo successfully pushed state health officials to omit from a public report the number of nursing home residents who died in hospitals from COVID-19, it was revealed on Thursday night.

Instead, the July state Health Department report listed only the nursing home residents who died from the virus at their facilities, far undercounting the total death toll of the state's most vulnerable population, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

The revelation further confirms the Cuomo administration possessed a more complete accounting of the COVID-nursing death count during the summer, but waited eight more months to cough up the true totals after repeatedly stonewalling lawmakers and the media, losing a lawsuit and being subjected to a damning state attorney general report.

Comment: It seems to be a confluence of problems for the governor as 'Cuomosexuality' turns into 'Cuomophobia' for female employees:
Numerous former staffers for Andrew Cuomo have described the toxic and cult-like work environment they worked under amidst the governor's multiple worsening scandals, including three accusations of sexual harassment.

"There's no right or wrong way. It's the Cuomo way," one staffer told the Gothamist about a warning she received when interviewing for a job in the Cuomo administration. "He wants people who are literally going to fall on the sword for him, and they all will."

Another described being told to wear stiletto heels because she was blonde and the governor "likes blondes" in stiletto heels. Her desk was put in within the governor's eyeline the moment she was hired, she said.

"I knew by looking cute, and not being obstinate or opinionated, and doing what I was told and looking polished... That is the only way I would survive there," the woman said. She remained anonymous like others who spoke to the Gothamist, citing fear of blowback from the governor, who has been accused in the past of professionally retaliating against those who publicly speak out against him.

Other staffers described an around-the-clock work schedule that blurred professional and personal lines, as well as a demanding boss who would lash out and scream at people under him for anything from the temperature in the room not being to his liking to having shoes that aren't "nice and shiny."

One former staffer described the environment as a "cult," saying they have been talking to others who worked in the administration since allegations against Cuomo broke. The administration "[pushed] you until you wanted to be there" with some comparing it to an abusive relationship.

Cuomo is facing a storm of growing controversies. Three women have come forward, including two former aides, to accuse him of sexual harassment, including unwanted touching and kissing. He has also been accused of downplaying and covering up Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes in his state for political purposes.

The governor apologized this week for making women "uncomfortable" in the past, but denied any unwanted touching. On nursing homes, he has claimed his administration simply did not keep up with requests for information.

Despite numerous calls for him to resign, Cuomo has said he will remain in place, and he appears to still have the support of many in his party while an investigation takes place.

While three women have already come forward, New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said on Thursday that Cuomo would only lose her support if one more did.

"Any further people coming forward, I think it would be time to resign," she told Capitol Tonight, adding any kind of harassment in the workplace is "out of bounds."
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