End of the Line for Cuomo

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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On today’s podcast, our hosts kick things off with a discussion about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who refuses to resign despite a damning sexual harassment report and calls from national Democrats, including President Biden, to step aside. They then dive into the CDC’s decision to extend the eviction moratorium again and debate the possibility of a federal vaccine mandate. Next, David talks about the right’s new obsession with Hungary and Viktor Orbán and how it mirrors the left’s fascination with Scandinavia. Finally, the gang discusses the recent dropoff in PAC contributions, and how the rise in small dollar donations may be contributing to American partisanship. Show Notes: -The battle for 1042 Cutler Street -Web/fundraising email loop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah
0:05.9	Goldberg and David French. So much to talk about today. We've got Cuomo, the Delta variant,
0:12.4	Hungary and a piece from Bloomberg to talk about fundraising.
0:30.8	Let's dive right in. Months after initial allegations came forward, the New York Attorney
0:35.4	General has released a report finding that New York governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed
0:43.0	his employees, those around him, created a toxic work environment and retaliated against
0:48.9	some of those accusers. Andrew Cuomo has refused to resign and made an aggressive pushback.
0:56.1	Jonah, does he make it through the week? I kind of think he does. I'm not saying he should.
1:03.3	In fact, I think he shouldn't. I think he should resign. I think I have always astounded by people
1:08.3	who cling to the limelight and power and all these things so fiercely. But does he make it the month,
1:18.2	I think, is easier to see him leaving within the month because apparently the impeachment process
1:24.9	in New York State goes much quicker than it does in the federal government or can. And I could see
1:32.4	if it gets to sort of a Nixon-like situation where he sees the writing on the wall and
1:41.4	thinks they're actually going to go through with impeaching him, then I could see him
1:45.3	resigning. But it would be the threat of the impeachment obviously and not the allegations or any
1:50.3	of this stuff that gets into reason. I do want to, we should stay on the politics and all this
1:54.2	or you can go any way you want with it. I just do want to get on the record. I think there's
1:57.8	something of a disgrace that as bad and as terrible as these allegations are against him and I believe
2:03.5	them. The fact that no one wants to impeach him for how he handled COVID. And I don't mean the
2:12.2	decision to put people in nursing homes. I think that was a disastrous mistake that one could
2:19.6	claim was foreseeable, but they were operating in real time with all sorts of contingency and all
2:23.8	sorts of unknown unknowns and known unknowns and yada yada yada. The thing that's impeachable is
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