Andrew Cuomo has been the governor of New York for more than a decade, and lately he's been raising money to run for a fourth term. Even if he had been living in a community of monks for all that time, this would be a terrible plan.
Really, you do not get better at this kind of office with long experience. You just get more and more former supporters who want you to go away so somebody else can have the job. Nobody should ever run for a fourth term. Nobody but FDR should run a third time.
But now the question is whether Cuomo should even finish out his current term, which goes through next year. On the one side, you have a damning 165-page report by state Attorney General Letitia James confirming some old allegations about the governor's grabbiness along with some shocking new ones. Fondling a state trooper's stomach, grabbing an assistant's buttocks during hugs, pressing his finger against the letters on a woman's T-shirt at a political event.
Should he decamp, quick? Well, Cuomo lives in the governor's mansion full time. Doesn't appear to have any other house. If New Yorkers had been looking for signs that Andrew might not go quietly, there you have another one. A person under siege to vacate his official quarters will be much less responsive if he doesn't have anywhere else to go.
His private life seems to be a little — wanting. He's long divorced from Kerry Kennedy, the mother of his three daughters. His long-running girlfriend, Sandra Lee, left town two years ago.
He's buried under these sexual harassment charges and nobody is defending him. Well, virtually nobody. Rudy Giuliani says driving Cuomo out of office would be "unjust, dangerous and entirely un-American." People, do you think this is because:
A) Giuliani just wants to see Cuomo suffer through a long, painful impeachment.
B) Giuliani made the remark at a party after several tumblers of scotch.