From bad to 'wurst
It’s getting hard to stomach. Video resurfaced on Twitter of Gov. Cuomo’s cringe-inducing exchange with a female reporter over a sausage sandwich at the 2016 New York State Fair.
“I want to see you eat the whole sausage,” Cuomo tells the WSYR-TV reporter, Beth Cefalu, while chowing down on the state-fair staple with others.
Cuomo then invites Cefalu (inset) to pose for a selfie at his table (above), where the creepy one-liners kept coming.
“There’s too much sausage in that picture,” Cuomo says, drawing laughter from others.
Cefalu, who now works for News 12 Westchester, insisted on Monday that she was not bothered by the exchange.
“I was not pressured/harassed this is two people enjoying the one event — the NYS fair — that gives them a little more freedom to be informal,” she tweeted.
“Its really sad it’s being turned into anything more.”
Meanwhile, a now-former member of the New York press corps accused the Governor’s Office of “harassing” behavior — and blamed it in part for her leaving the news business.
Lindsay Nielsen posted a statement on Twitter Sunday alleging that Cuomo’s office responded to critical coverage with “incessant bullying” while she worked for WTEN-TV in Albany from 2012 to 2017.
“They would make it personal, claiming I have this personal vendetta against the governor, which is absolutely bogus,” Nielsen told The Post.
“All I was ever trying to do was report the story, report the facts.”