Jfc, he spent $20 million of taxpayer dollars to defend himself in court? Why the fuck do politicians get to use public funds to legally defend themselves?
If they didn’t, then the result would be constant SLAPP suits against politicians that are disliked by a certain type of asshole.
What should happen is that money should be instantly applied to the politician as debt when the case is lost.
That’s a good middle ground of protecting them from the worst actors, but not from their actual actions.
I would also love it if a plaintiff attorney could act as a prosecutor in cases of corruption or violated rights, with the ability to send politicians (and cops) to prison when they violate rights.
The current arrangement is not acceptable.
If public defenders are good enough for everyone else, they’re good enough for politicians. Maybe they’ll actually get some funding and support that way.
You don’t get a public defender for civil lawsuits, which are the majority of those kinds of lawsuits. So no, public defenders aren’t good enough for everyone, because they don’t exist for civil lawsuits.
Yep that is an accurate description of the way the broken system currently works. Thanks!
Yeah. That’s the proper response to your statement being wrong. Lol. . .
Yes, the system has issues–the issue being that the loser in the suit doesn’t take the burden of reasonable attorney costs for both parties. That alone would fix most of it. Government doesn’t need to give anyone a right to a civil lawyer.
“We should change the way things work.” “Thats not how things work” great argument buddy, glad we could hash this out.
I mean you stayed.
If the public defenders are good enough for everyone else
as a present which is not the case, since they’re not in civil lawsuits
“Mr. Cuomo, in 2021, thirteen different women who worked in your administration credibly accused you of sexual harassment,” said Mamdani. “Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself, all while describing these allegations as entirely political. You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening.”
I didn’t even know this happened at a debate. Nice
Reminds me of when Liz Warren slaughtered Mike Bloomberg onstage during a debate. His campaign nosedived after it and never recovered!
Good god. No wonder Trump supported him.
“Im not a sex pest, I’m iTaLiAn”
-Cuomo more or less
Literally at the election result party where at no point did he even have an excuse of being overwhelmed with positive emotion…
It wouldn’t be a valid excuse, but it’s a frequent excuse. He was just drunk and wanted to kiss her, and it didn’t matter what she wanted or consented to. Even in a room with a bunch of people and journalists.
The guy is a complete piece of shit, and so is everyone that knows him and endorsed him.
In the pictures she looks scared and trying to turn away while he grabs her neck. This was legit sexual assault in broad daylight and documented by the press in real time…
“average new yorker harasses women” factoid actualy just statistical error. Sexual Harassment Georg, who used to be mayor and sexually harasses over 10,000 women each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It is true a lot of crime statistics across the US are skewed horribly by a minority of chronic, repeat offenders.
The dude lost, why the fuck are we still talking about him? jfc
