Cuomo accuser Lindsey Boylan calls on 'bystanders' to activate and 'say something'
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One of the women accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment is calling on "bystanders" to activate and "say something," amid a statewide investigation into the allegations leveled against him.
Lindsey Boylan, a former Cuomo staffer and the first to go public with her allegations against him, on Friday pointed to "bystanders," saying they can "do better.
"I went to bed & woke up thinking about all the bystanders that make abuse possible," Boylan tweeted. "They watch it happen. They look away. They validate the abuser with support."
"We cannot change the past but we can heal & create a better future," she continued. "There are no bystanders in that better future."
Boylan then called on those bystanders directly.
"Bystanders: you can be activated," she said. "You can do better. You can help make it right and end the abuse. End the abuse now."
She added: "Say something. Do something."
Cuomo is facing mounting calls for his resignation, an independent investigation and a move to rescind his emergency coronavirus powers amid dueling scandals over allegations of improper behavior toward women and his handling of the nursing home crisis during the pandemic.
The focus on the Democratic governor comes as CNN has given the sexual harassment accusations against Cuomo more attention over the past two weeks, but initially, the liberal network and the governor's brother, anchor Chris Cuomo, gave the controversies little to no airtime. Previously, the network gave Chris Cuomo free rein to conduct friendly, comical interviews with the governor, who wrote a book about successfully handling the pandemic in the middle of the pandemic.
Boylan last week published a blog post accusing the governor of unwanted kissing and touching and inappropriate comments.
She claimed Cuomo went "out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs," kissing her while they were alone in his office, and suggesting that they "play strip poker" during a plane ride.
Cuomo's office has denied Boylan's harassment claims, calling them "simply false" and insisting the strip poker comment "did not happen."
Over the weekend, former Cuomo adviser Charlotte Bennett also came forward, claiming the governor asked her questions about her sex life, whether she was monogamous in her relationships and if she had ever had sex with older men.
The 25-year-old staffer described to The New York Times an incident that allegedly took place in June when she was "alone" with the 63-year-old governor in his State Capitol office. According to the report, he allegedly asked her if she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships and that he was open to having relationships with women in their 20s, which were noted by The Times as "comments she interpreted as clear overtures to a sexual relationship."
In response to the allegations, Cuomo told the Times that he "never made advances toward Ms. Bennett, nor did I ever intend to act in any way that was inappropriate."
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