The soon-to-be 57th governor of New York also said in an exclusive interview on TODAY that she plans to run for a full term next year.
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul distanced herself from the"sickening" sexual harassment allegations involving Gov. Andrew Cuomo and said she intends to run for a full term as governor next year in her first live interview since Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday.
Nine of the women allegedly harassed by Cuomo were state employees, and Cuomo subjected them to unwelcome touching and groping, and his office retaliated against one of the women after she spoke out about it, the report alleged.Cuomo faces potential criminal and civil actions, but has admitted no wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.
"At the end of my term, whenever it ends, no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment," Hochul said in a news conference on Wednesday in Albany. "When I become governor this will become a key issue, and my view is that children and everyone in a school environment will be wearing masks," she said on TODAY."That's just an opinion right now, I don't have the authority to make that the policy, and we're going to leave it up to school districts right now."Hochul began her political career in the 1980s. In 1994, she won a local council seat in Hamburg, which is just outside of Buffalo.
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