{"id":208744,"date":"2021-03-10T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=208744"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:44:54","slug":"andrew-cuomos-mommy-rides-to-embattled-governors-defense-backs-refusal-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomos-mommy-rides-to-embattled-governors-defense-backs-refusal-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Mommy Rides to Embattled Governor\u2019s Defense, Backs Refusal to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fandrew-cuomos-mommy-rides-to-embattled-governors-defense-backs-refusal-to-resign%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=208744&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\/03\/fb_image-129.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), a.k.a. the &#8220;Butcher of Albany,&#8221; is under increasing pressure to resign as state authorities investigate him for undercounting COVID-related deaths in nursing homes and for being an alleged sex pest who harasses women.<\/p>\n<p>At least his mommy still supports him. Matilda Cuomo, widow of former New York governor Mario Cuomo, made her first public comments on the ongoing scandals earlier this week. &#8220;I have always had the utmost admiration for Andrew, and I still do,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s mommy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Grondahl-Cuomo-s-mother-sister-remain-by-his-16009837.php?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Albany&nbsp;<em>Times Union<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;He is my son and I don&#8217;t like what he is going through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Politics<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cuomo matriarch did not specifically address the numerous allegations of sexual harassment against her son, but&nbsp;defended the defiant governor&#8217;s refusal to resign.&nbsp;&#8220;I tell Andrew to continue doing his job as governor,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He is a problem solver who gets things done for the people of New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matilda Cuomo&#8217;s public foray into the controversy is reminiscent of former first lady Barbara Bush&#8217;s defense of her son Jeb Bush during the 2016 Republican primary. After months of struggling for relevance in the face of Donald Trump&#8217;s relentless attacks, Jeb finally called in the big guns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeb has been a very good father. A wonderful son,&#8221; Barbara Bush said in a video announcement in January 2016. &#8220;Of all the people running, he seems to be the one who could solve the problems. I think he&#8217;ll be a great president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Bush ended his candidacy less than a month later, but not before Trump ruthlessly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/08\/politics\/donald-trump-jeb-bush-embarrassment-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocked<\/a> the former governor of Florida for involving his mother. &#8220;Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown,&#8221; Trump told CNN days after the release of the video. &#8220;He&#8217;s an embarrassment to his family. He has to bring his mother out and walk his mother around at 90 years old. I think it&#8217;s a very sad situation that&#8217;s taking place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As far as Cuomo is concerned, his unusual relationship with his parents is one of the overlooked themes of his self-congratulatory <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/diary-of-death-a-retrospective-review-of-american-crisis-by-gov-andrew-cuomo\/\">memoir<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em>. (The virus has killed at least 12,000 New Yorkers since publication.)<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo discussed, for example, his habit of wearing his late father&#8217;s old shoes on &#8220;difficult&#8221; days and how he would often lie in bed and have imaginary conversations with his dad.&nbsp;&#8220;I would list a fact pattern and ask him what he thought,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;And then I would provide his analysis.&#8221; This made him &#8220;feel as if I were not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo&#8217;s relationship with his father also appears to have seeded a bizarre contempt for his younger brother Chris Cuomo, the CNN personality who is considered the &#8220;funny&#8221; one in the family. The elder Cuomo wrote that their father was &#8220;much more tolerant than he had been with me&#8221; and &#8220;encouraged [Chris&#8217;s] humor&#8221; but argued that Chris wouldn&#8217;t be so funny if he had to deal with the stress and media scrutiny that came with being governor of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo lamented that his many playful &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/the-toughest-questions-chris-cuomo-asks-his-big-brother\/\">interviews<\/a>&#8221; with Chris on CNN did not allow him to convey his significant talent for comedy\u2014a talent he sought to reiterate in the pages of&nbsp;<em>American Crisis<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;I am funny,&#8221; Cuomo wrote, definitively. &#8220;Many people don&#8217;t know that I am funny. But I am. Actually, I am very funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), a.k.a. the &#8220;Butcher of Albany,&#8221; is under increasing pressure to resign as state authorities investigate him for undercounting COVID-related deaths in nursing homes and for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310449,"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\/03\/fb_image-129.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Mommy Rides to Embattled Governor\u2019s Defense, Backs Refusal to Resign","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-129.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Mommy Rides to Embattled Governor\u2019s Defense, Backs Refusal to Resign","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208744","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=208744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}