{"id":612849,"date":"2021-08-05T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612849"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:21:49","slug":"lgbt-group-renews-contract-with-president-who-helped-smear-cuomo-accuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-group-renews-contract-with-president-who-helped-smear-cuomo-accuser\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Group Renews Contract With President Who Helped Smear Cuomo Accuser"},"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\">22<\/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%2Flgbt-group-renews-contract-with-president-who-helped-smear-cuomo-accuser%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=612849&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 readability=\"30.134969325153\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Human Rights Campaign rewards Alphonso David with 5-year contract after damning AG report<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-scaled-e1628179524876.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-508807194-1400x932.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGovernor Andrew Cuomo attends 2016 Human Rights Campaign New York Gala Dinner (Photo by Rob Kim\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 5, 2021 1:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"105.89346338992\">\n<p>A prominent LGBT rights group renewed its president&#8217;s contract after he was revealed this week to have helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) smear a woman who accused the governor of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Campaign announced Wednesday that it had signed Alphonso David to a five-year contract, one of the longest in the organization\u2019s history. The group also said it has &#8220;full confidence&#8221; in David, who served as general counsel to Cuomo before taking over the Human Rights Campaign in 2019. On Tuesday, New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) released a report that said <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/cuomo-aides-recruited-pro-lgbt-activist-to-help-discredit-governors-accuser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David helped Cuomo\u2019s team<\/a> try to discredit Lindsey Boylan, a former Cuomo aide who accused him of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>David shared Boylan\u2019s personnel file with Cuomo\u2019s aides, who subsequently leaked it to the media. David also advised Cuomo\u2019s team regarding an op-ed Cuomo wrote that sought to discredit Boylan. David and other Cuomo advisers also held discussions about covertly recording another woman who had come forward with allegations about Cuomo. James\u2019s report said Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women, many of whom were state employees. James said Cuomo\u2019s advisers, including David, engaged in a &#8220;retaliation&#8221; campaign against the governor\u2019s accusers.<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s involvement drew the attention of national media outlets and generated calls from some groups that he resign. Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT rights group, called on the Human Rights Campaign to cut ties with David. But David remained defiant as of Wednesday, saying that he would not resign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my life\u2019s work,&#8221; David <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2021\/08\/04\/damning-n-y-ag-report-on-cuomo-ensnares-hrc-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Blade<\/em>. &#8220;I intend to continue the work that I\u2019ve been doing because the work of marginalized communities, the work to actually represent marginalized communities is too important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two officials with the Human Rights Campaign said they have &#8220;full confidence in Alphonso David as president of the organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In recognition of his extraordinary leadership during extremely challenging times, we were proud to extend his contract to stay on in his role for five more years,&#8221; Morgan Cox and Jodie Patterson, two Human Rights Campaign directors, told the <em>Blade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"9.0622406639004\">\n<p>While David maintains the confidence of the Human Rights Campaign board, staffers called on him to resign during a conference call on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>David called on Cuomo to resign from office but did not address his own appearance in the attorney general\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After reading the AG\u2019s devastating report that concluded Gov. Cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment, in violation of both federal and state law, he should resign,&#8221; David said on Tuesday after the report was released.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa asked David to provide Boylan\u2019s personnel file after Boylan publicly accused Cuomo of being &#8220;one of the biggest abusers in the world.&#8221; David emailed a copy of Boylan\u2019s confidential work file to another Cuomo lieutenant, Rich Azzopardi. The report also said David took part in discussions about secretly recording a conversation between a former Cuomo staffer and another Cuomo accuser named Kaitlin. The Cuomo team wanted to find out whether Kaitlin had been in contact with Boylan.<\/p>\n<p>David is not the only civil rights activist who helped Cuomo discredit Boylan. Roberta Kaplan and Tina Tchen, the cofounders of the #MeToo group Time\u2019s Up, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/times-up-founder-helped-cuomo-team-smear-governors-accuser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advised Cuomo\u2019s team<\/a> about the op-ed Cuomo wanted to publish in order to discredit Boylan. The attorney general said DeRosa testified that Kaplan and Tchen reviewed Cuomo\u2019s op-ed and approved of its publication, save for portions that discussed Boylan\u2019s relationships with other men.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Campaign and David did not respond to numerous requests for comment from the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Human Rights Campaign rewards Alphonso David with 5-year contract after damning AG report  Governor Andrew Cuomo attends 2016 Human Rights Campaign New York Gala Dinner &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612849","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}