{"id":683168,"date":"2021-08-25T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683168"},"modified":"2021-08-25T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:51:08","slug":"ny-dem-leader-cuomo-can-be-positive-force-in-democratic-partys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-dem-leader-cuomo-can-be-positive-force-in-democratic-partys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Dem Leader: Cuomo Can Be \u2018Positive\u2019 Force in Democratic Party\u2019s Future"},"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%2Fny-dem-leader-cuomo-can-be-positive-force-in-democratic-partys-future%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=683168&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\/08\/GettyImages-1231769342-e1628640371818.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The night before New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s resignation officially went into effect, a Democratic leader said the disgraced governor should continue to play a \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cpositive\u201d role in the party\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs made the comments on Monday night\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell\u201d on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell asked Jacobs, a Cuomo ally, what he wanted the resigned governor to do with the $18 million in campaign donations he raised. Under campaign finance law, he can\u2019t transfer those funds to a national candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can give it to your state Democratic Party,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cAre you going to ask him for that $18 million?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charities and candidates frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-attorney-general-vows-to-reject-all-campaign-donations-from-law-enforcement\">reject<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/buttigieg-campaign-returns-donations-from-two-attorneys-who-represented-kavanaugh\">return<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/democrats-harvey-weinstein.html\">donate<\/a> campaign donations from individuals they consider tainted or unsavory, rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2006\/04\/the-capitol-police-slap-back\/\">solicit<\/a> them.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs said he would welcome the donations from Governor Cuomo. \u201cI can share the wiring instructions with him if he would like,\u201d quipped Jacobs. \u201cWe would be more than happy to take some of that money into the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that he is going to remain a productive and positive force in the party and in politics,\u201d said Jacobs, before putting in a pitch for Cuomo\u2019s remaining war chest. \u201cAnd his help with those funds and other assets certainly, you know, would be something we would appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell asked about whether the governor, who stands accused of sexually harassing 11 women, should be able to use his financial might to punish lawmakers who held him accountable for the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut is that, kind of, morally acceptable to the New York state Democratic Party, that Andrew Cuomo would sit there with the $18 million and dole it out to the people within the Democratic Party \u2026 [whom] he favors?\u201d O\u2019Donnell asked, noting the donations could set off \u201ca grudge match against others whom he resents based on the way the last year of his career has worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could either live with it or not,\u201d replied Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>Under campaign finance laws, the governor could also donate the $18 million to charity \u2014 something Jacobs said \u201cwould be a very good use of the money, as well\u201d and which \u201cwould enhance his image and his legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell raised another possibility: Cuomo could keep the campaign funds and wage an independent campaign for governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about the scenario in which Andrew Cuomo runs as an independent, using his $18 million. He could be the best-funded gubernatorial candidate next time around, running against a Democratic nominee that could be Governor [Kathy] Hochul at that time, or could be someone else, and a Republican nominee: Andrew Cuomo in the middle, $18 million as an independent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs said that \u201cwould not be a good scenario for the party\u201d or Cuomo\u2019s former lieutenant governor, who was sworn in as governor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul may face a challenge from New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who released the 168-page report detailing allegations of sexual harassment by former Governor Cuomo ranging from verbal to physical. One such incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/completely-violated-state-trooper-describes-alleged-cuomo-incident-from-month-after-he-signed-sexual-harassment-law\">involved<\/a> a September 2019 encounter with a state trooper, in which Cuomo allegedly walked past her and \u201cran the palm of his left hand across her stomach in the direction opposite the direction that he was walking.\u201d The female trooper said that she felt \u201ccompletely violated\u201d by the governor touching her \u201cbetween my chest and my privates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His former executive assistant, 32-year-old Brittany Commissio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-he-did-to-me-was-a-crime-cuomo-accuser-comes-forward-after-filing-criminal-complaint\">said<\/a> that Cuomo kissed her, grabbed her butt, and groped her breast under her shirt and over her bra.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s stories make such compelling reading that Jacobs has said publicly that he believes the allegations contained in the report. Still, he said, \u201cI feel badly for the governor because I don\u2019t see him as a bad person at all.\u201d Cuomo\u2019s \u201clegacy that certainly deserves, you know, our admiration for so many parts of it,\u201d said Jacobs on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brutal-takedown-of-andrew-cuomos-sexual-harassment-airs-on-cnn\">August 4 episode<\/a> of CNN\u2019s \u201cDon Lemon Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also pointed out,\u201d Jacobs added, \u201cthat in American politics, you know, there\u2019s always room for redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night before New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s resignation officially went into effect, a Democratic leader said the disgraced governor should continue to play a \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cpositive\u201d role in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-683168","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\/683168","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=683168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683168\/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=683168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}