#MeToo, a movement that pushed the resignation of Andrew Cuomo

Following an investigation issued on the 3rd of August by Attorney General Letitia James with a 165-pages report, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday after sexually harassing multiple women, most of whom were his workers.

The governor’s report of the investigation into allegations of sexual harassment cites: “We find that the Governor sexually harassed a number of current and former New York State employees by, among other things, engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching, as well as making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women.”

“The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing,” States Cuomo in his public announcement on Tuesday morning. He added he was stepping aside as his resignation will be effective in 14 days.

Before his resignation, Cuomo put out a 14 minutes video denying the charges addressed in the report of an investigation that lasted for 5 months, in addition to the violation of state and federal law that targeted him.

One of the victims, a 25-year-old, who worked as Cuomo’s former aid, said the governor asked her multiple inappropriate salacious questions including ones about whether she has ever slept with an older man, that is when she realized he was indeed positioning her for sexual intercourse.

Transmitted by a state trooper to the investigations, Cuomo had asked Bennett to find him a girlfriend. As the report combined, the former aid declared that the governor mentioned while stating the criteria of the person he desired to meet was someone who “can handle pain”.

Responding to Charlotte Bennett in the same 14 minutes video, Cuomo claimed he was “only” taking an interest in helping his aid since she told him she was a victim of sexual trauma adding that he as well has a family member who was a victim.

“Charlotte, I want you to know that I am truly and deeply sorry,” Cuomo said. “I brought my personal experience into the workplace and I shouldn’t have done that. I was trying to help. Obviously, I didn’t.”

However, for Bennett, immediate reassignment is only the best way for Cuomo to showcase his repent, which was what Joe Biden said as well.

Following the rise of the #MeToo movement that was formally initiated in 2006 by American sexual harassment survivor and activist Tarana Burke, Cuomo became the latest politician to resign.

Women have increasingly put hand on hand to have their voices heard, allowing the world to view the brutality of sexual harassment from a victim’s lens.