Tara Palmeri: Cuomo Has $18 Million in Political War Chest, Hired PR Person After Resignation

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PALMERI: "I would say it’s because he’s a former governor right now, it’s a misdemeanor charge, not to minimize it, but I would say that’s part of it. But that’s not the right way to look at it because based on my reporting on Andrew Cuomo, I used to cover him at the New York Post and the reporting that I’ve gathered now, he has $18 million in a war chest that he plans to use to be political and influential in the state, whether that means going after his political enemies or running again. In his first hire after resigning from office, he hired a PR person, and what does that tell you? He’s very eager in reshaping his image and bringing himself back into the political fold and possibly, you know, reviving his career. He doesn't — he left really non-apologetic. He seems to think there is a future. So, if we give him a pass this time in the media, that means he has a chance to come back with very few people really remembering that he was in fact charged with a sex crime."