The politicians breaking ranks with Cuomo and asking him to resign include a batch of progressive Democrats in the Legislature — as well as Kathleen Rice, a Democratic member of Congress from Long Island. Many Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, have called for Cuomo's resignation.
But McLaughlin has faced high-profile complaints of his own.
In September 2017, amid McLaughlin's initial run for county executive, the Times Union published audio of a female legislative aide on the phone with McLaughlin accusing him of roughing her up — a claim McLaughlin denied and that the woman backed away from in a subsequent recording made by McLaughlin's team.