It appears the majority of New York State Assembly members would be ready to impeach Governor Cuomo if he doesn’t resign. The video above shows Assembly member Kenny Burgos talking about impeachment, as well as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki reiterating President Joe Biden’s call for Gov. Cuomo to resign.
On Thursday, state lawmakers told Cuomo their impeachment investigation is almost done. They gave him a deadline of Aug. 13 to provide additional evidence.
At least 86 of the 150 Assembly members have either said publicly or told the Associated Press they supported beginning the impeachment process. This, coming just a day after New York’s Attorney General announced the results of an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against Cuomo.
“I mean, the mood has been for quite some time and even I would say even back to March, that when these allegations came out, we found many of them credible and many of my colleagues did not see the governor fit to serve as governor anymore,” Assembly member Burgos said. “I think now with the AG report, it’s such a damning report and really just clean cut and clear, even my colleagues who were on the fence have now basically come to the agreement that he’s no longer fit to serve as governor.”
Assembly Democrats debated virtually for hours Tuesday about whether to impeach the governor now, wait to see whether he resigns, or give the Assembly Judiciary Committee time to wrap up its wide-ranging investigation.
“I would say you need to leave with grace, you know, I really do hope and pray that he resigns,” Burgos said. “I think would be a much better situation for him, for us in the legislature.”
Press Secretary Psaki avoided a reporter question regarding impeachment at her daily breifing Wednesday, instead saying, “The president made clear yesterday that Governor Cuomo should resign. And we’ve, I believe we should start with that.”
Psaki went on to say, “There’s obviously a process that’s going to proceed and leaders in New York spoke to that yesterday. We’ll leave it to them to speak to that, but the president believes Governor Cuomo should do the right thing, resign and leave space for future leadership in New York.”
District attorneys in Manhattan, Albany, Westchester county and Nassau county said they asked for investigative materials from the attorney general’s inquiry.
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