New York Post

From bad to 'wurst

- Yaron Steinbuch

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.”

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