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Rush to dump donations amid harass shocker
Now actresses aren’t the only ones trying to keep their distance from Harvey Weinstein.
A day after the movie mogul was accused of harassing young female employees for decades, politicians began dumping donations from the Democratic mega-donor faster than you can say, “Is that an Oscar in your dressing-gown pocket, or . . . ?”
Gov. Cuomo and Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York all announced Friday that they would be giving contributions their campaigns received from Weinstein to charitable groups.
Meanwhile, the movie exec got out of Dodge, but not without first joking around before fleeing his West Village town house.
Wheeling a small suitcase, Weinstein told reporters he was headed to work because “I’m not rich like you guys.”
A source told The Post that he was on a plane by early afternoon to escape the media frenzy, although it was unclear where he was headed.
About 90 minutes later, his fashiondesigner wife, Georgina Chapman, said nothing as she left the apartment and jumped into a car packed with Louis Vuitton luggage.
Cuomo’s 2018 campaign chairman, Bill Mulrow, called the allegations against Weinstein “horrid and disturbing.” former President Barack Obama andnd host of the left-leaning political pod-dcast “Pod Save America.”
The Democratic National Com-mittee heeded the call, at leastt partly. It announced that it wouldd donate more than $30,000 in contributions, although it has received more than $296,000 from the Hollywood bigwig over the decades.
The DNC said it would give the money to Emily’s List and Emerge America — both organizations that fund female Democratic candidates — as well as Higher Heights, which helps black women into leadership positions.
Three members of The Weinstein Company’s all-male board resigned Friday. Four remaining members, including Weinstein’s brother, Bob, issued a statement endorsing the movie mogul’s decision to go on indefinite leave.
Bob now heads the company, along with David Glasser, the chief operating officer.
“As Harvey has said, it is important for him to get professional help for the problems he has acknowledged,” the board said in a statement.
The board said it will conduct “a thorough and independent investigation.”
Now we know what it takes for Gov. Cuomo to sacrifice from his campaign war chest: a parade of other top local pols letting go of gifts from a donor suddenly in the news for decades of alleged sexual harassment.
Tri-state Dems spent Friday running hard and fast from now-toxic Hollywood kingpin Harvey Weinstein in the wake of an avalanche of exposés.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has branded herself a fighter on women’s issues, was the first to bolt, returning $11 grand in donations. Sens. Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker (NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) rapidly followed in re-gifting their Weinstein largesse to women’s charities.
But it wasn’t ’til early Friday evening that Cuomo joined in, coughing up $50,000 the mogul had given in the current election cycle. (That leaves $100,000 in Weinstein giving to earlier Cuomo campaigns dating back to his run for state attorney general.)
Oh, and the Democratic National Committee is simply passing most of its nearly $300,000 in Weinstein cash on to other party organizations.
Still to speak up are Harvey’s two favorite candidates: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who got millions from him personally or via campaign bundling. (Weinstein even hired Malia Obama as an intern.)
Clinton, of course, is still on her book tour, reminding listeners that she wanted to tell Donald Trump what many women in Hollywood actually did tell Harvey Weinstein: “Back off, you creep!”
Yet the entire Democratic Party still has a big Harvey Weinstein problem: By many accounts, his behavior was an open secret long before it was exposed by The New York Times. How did no one tell any of the pols who so eagerly grabbed for his cash?
Or did they know, but not care? There’s plenty of precedent for that, starting with Bill Clinton.
So it’s no coincidence that Weinstein prepared for the Times exposé with the help of Obama communications director Anita Dunn and Clinton ex-counsel Lanny Davis.
As for Cuomo: He still hasn’t returned a dime of the $1.2 million he raked in from Glenwood Management, the firm deeply involved in corrupt payoffs that resulted in the criminal convictions of ex-legislative bosses Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.