{"id":177848,"date":"2021-02-26T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177848"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:44:04","slug":"the-hypocritical-response-of-progressive-women-on-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hypocritical-response-of-progressive-women-on-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocritical Response Of Progressive Women On The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-hypocritical-response-of-progressive-women-on-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230684461-1024x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Prominent progressive women who usually jump at the chance to condemn powerful men accused of sexual harassment went suddenly and mysteriously mum in the wake of allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from one of his former aides.<\/p>\n<p>Former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan\u00a0published a lengthy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@lindseyboylan4NY\/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e\">essay<\/a> on\u00a0Medium\u00a0on Wednesday morning detailing several years of working with the Democratic governor during which she says he forcibly kissed her on the lips in his office in 2018 and made her feel extremely uncomfortable on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s play strip poker,\u201d Boylan remembers Cuomo saying to her as she sat near him on a government jet in October, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo \u201ccreated a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected\u201d and \u201cused\u00a0intimidation to silence his critics,\u201d Boylan wrote, adding that,\u00a0\u201cif you dared to speak up, you would face consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boylan, who is currently running for Manhattan borough president, originally tweeted about her experience working for Cuomo in December before offering more details on her allegations this week. She said that other women shared similar stories about Cuomo\u2019s inappropriate behavior toward them.<\/p>\n<p>But it took nearly two days for a number of influential progressive women to eke out even a minimal response to the allegations against the New York governor.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) finally offered a semblance of a response, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbszak\/status\/1365061820764061699\">telling<\/a> CBS News that the\u00a0allegations against Cuomo are \u201cextraordinarily serious\u201d and \u201cdeserve to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we actually get to the bottom of the situation, we can figure out what accountability looks like,\u201d the New York progressive said, adding that she\u00a0is calling on the state legislature to ensure Cuomo receives\u00a0due process.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s template-like\u00a0response came just three weeks after she tearfully revealed on Instagram Live that she herself is a survivor of sexual assault and accused Republicans of re-traumatizing her by urging people to move past January\u2019s Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Another New York Democrat, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), offered a similarly tepid and delayed response to the allegations against her state\u2019s Democratic governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/new-york-playbook\/2021\/02\/26\/new-law-bars-convicted-ex-pols-from-running-cuomo-besieged-as-crises-grow-county-parties-hold-off-on-mayoral-endorsements-491916\">admitting<\/a> to Politico that she has not read Boylan\u2019s post, but that all have a right to tell their story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, obviously these allegations are serious and deeply concerning and anyone has a right to come forward to be heard and to have allegations be investigated,\u201d Gillibrand said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Cuomo also has a right to be heard and he has come forward and has denied these allegations. But ultimately the decision will be up to the state,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand was one of the leading voices championing victims of sexual assault when the\u00a0#MeToo movement was cresting a few years ago, leading Democrats in their fight against Brett Kavanaugh during his acrimonious\u00a02018 Supreme Court confirmation. She declared at the time that she was sure Kavanaugh was not telling the truth because he had not\u00a0asked to have the FBI review the sexual assault accusations leveled against him by Christine Blasey Ford, which was, in Gillibrand\u2019s view, guilty behavior.<\/p>\n<p>She was also one of the leading voices calling for Minnesota Democrat\u00a0Al Franken\u2019s ouster from the Senate in 2018 after he was\u00a0accused by multiple women of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, a\u00a0former prosecutor who\u00a0aggressively questioned Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing and joined Gillibrand in calling\u00a0on Franken to resign, remains silent on the allegations against Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has also said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also finally responded on Thursday to the allegations against Cuomo and also attempted to distance President Biden from his former praise of the New York governor\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo is currently weathering another scandal relating to his dismal failure to prevent the coronavirus from spreading in New York nursing homes, and his administration\u2019s subsequent coverup of the nursing home death toll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made some positive comments about Governor Cuomo and his role in New York at the time as he did about a range of governors,\u201d Psaki said about Biden\u2019s remark in early 2020 that Cuomo\u2019s response to the pandemic is the\u00a0\u201cgold standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me first say that the president has been consistent in his position,\u201d Psaki said when asked about the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo. \u201cWhen a person comes forward, they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Their voice should be heard, not silenced. And any allegation should be reviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even the bare bones responses Gillibrand and Ocasio-Cortez mustered this week to the allegations against Cuomo were better than what they offered the woman who made a\u00a0more serious allegation against\u00a0Joe Biden, his former aide Tara Reade.<\/p>\n<p>Reade alleges that in 1993, when she was an aide to Biden, then a senator from Delaware, he pinned her up against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers while forcibly kissing her.\u00a0Reade went public with her accusation against Biden in April of 2019, before he announced his run for president. She was joined by several other women who claim Biden has touched them inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s devoted his life to supporting women, and he has vehemently denied this allegation,\u201d Gillibrand said of Biden at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m satisfied with how he has responded. I know him. I was proud to endorse him on Monday,\u201d Pelosi said of Biden\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is whether Boylan\u2019s allegations against Cuomo and potentially claims against him from other women will fade and be consigned to the news cycle dustbin before they are given the attention they are due, partly thanks to the listless response from prominent Democrat women, the supposed champions of #MeToo victims.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent progressive women who usually jump at the chance to condemn powerful men accused of sexual harassment went suddenly and mysteriously mum in the wake of allegations against New York &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274330,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230684461-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Hypocritical Response Of Progressive Women On The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Allegations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230684461-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Hypocritical Response Of Progressive Women On The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Allegations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}