WHY DID CUOMO CALL ME?

My Two Hour Conversation with the Ex-Governor

In May of 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was called America’s most popular pol. Fifteen months later he exited in disgrace as one of its most reviled. Comforter-in-Chief to Predator-in-Albany.

He slipped away and went radio silent for five months. Until he called me three weeks ago.

That call, for a reporter anyway, was both a great “get” and a miserable conundrum. I felt like the demon love child of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. It was a “Why, me?” for getting the call. A bat-wielding, un-Woke witch — for writing about it in this political climate. But I’m a reporter. I expect that.

What I didn’t expect was that none of the usual mainstream media for whom I’d been writing since Jesus was in swaddling Pampers, wanted an exclusive interview with his side of the story.

I would have had an easier time pitching an interview with a serial killer.

Maybe the narrative everybody already had, was the narrative everybody wanted.

Perhaps I should have guessed it would go that way — but still it was a shock. After all, it was hardly a blip in the news when the last of the 11 charges against the former governor for harassing, hugging, kissing, groping and grabbing women’s backs…