{"id":724740,"date":"2021-09-06T21:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=724740"},"modified":"2021-09-06T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:35:56","slug":"in-wake-of-cuomo-scandal-entire-times-up-board-resigns-including-eva-longoria-and-shonda-rhimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-wake-of-cuomo-scandal-entire-times-up-board-resigns-including-eva-longoria-and-shonda-rhimes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Wake Of Cuomo Scandal, Entire Time\u2019s Up Board Resigns, Including Eva Longoria And Shonda Rhimes"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fin-wake-of-cuomo-scandal-entire-times-up-board-resigns-including-eva-longoria-and-shonda-rhimes%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=724740&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\/09\/GettyImages-1297338093-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After weeks of silence, several celebrities associated with the anti-harassment group Time\u2019s Up are finally reacting to revelations that top leaders helped former New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo smear an accuser. On Saturday, the entire governing board, including Eva Longoria, Shonda Rhimes, and Jurnee Smollett (actress and sister of Jussie Smollett), announced they were resigning.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesupfoundation.org\/newsroom\/statement-from-the-times-up-governing-board-of-directors\/\">statement<\/a>, Longoria, Rhimes, and Smollett insisted that the mission of Time\u2019s Up is still \u201cto support the goal of safe, fair, dignified work for all women.\u201d They called the New York attorney general\u2019s revelations, which found CEO Tina Tchen advised Cuomo on a letter that would have discredited his former staffer Lindsey Boylan\u2019s claims, a \u201ccrisis\u201d that offers \u201can important opportunity for growth and change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While legal fund board chairwoman Roberta Kaplan helped Cuomo on the wording of the letter, leaked text messages later published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/times-up-cuomo-harassment\/2021\/08\/25\/d4f9616e-05b9-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> revealed that Tchen also ordered Time\u2019s Up staff to \u201cstand down\u201d from making any public statements in support of Boylan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am especially aware that my position at the helm of Time\u2019s Up has become a painful and divisive focal point,\u201d Tchen, who worked in the Obama White House, said when she resigned. \u201cThose very women and other activists who should be working together to fight for change are instead battling each other in harmful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The board did not mention Tchen, Kaplan, or Cuomo in announcing their resignations. Instead, their comments stayed focused on the \u201csystems\u201d they say the group was created to \u201cdisrupt\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>It is crucial to us as a board that the organization remain in service to this seismic, global work to demand equity and disrupt systems that foster discrimination, harassment and abuse \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TIME\u2019S UP is ready for new leadership, and we want to move forcefully toward its new iteration. We have strong faith in the talent and dedication of our interim CEO Monifa Bandele as a leader. As has been announced, Monifa will be overseeing a comprehensive assessment of the organization, in collaboration with an outside consultant, and the input of our stakeholders: survivors and those who work for survivor justice and gender equity in the workplace and beyond \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TIME\u2019S UP belongs to all women. Its mission must continue \u2013 until we live in a world in which no woman ever needs to say #timesup again.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement also announced that Time\u2019s Up will now be assembling an entirely new board so that Bandele will be able to \u201cto refocus the organization\u2019s leadership to suit its mission and needs.\u201d However, four current members, including \u201cKiss the Girls\u201d actress and Harvey Weinstein accuser Ashley Judd, will stay on for a short time to help ensure a \u201csmooth transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other Hollywood A-listers who have heavily supported Time\u2019s Up, including Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Natalie Portman, have yet to comment on the scandal.<\/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>After weeks of silence, several celebrities associated with the anti-harassment group Time\u2019s Up are finally reacting to revelations that top leaders helped former New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo smear &#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-724740","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\/724740","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=724740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724740\/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=724740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}