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The joint letter marks the most significant pressure to date for Cuomo s ouster.
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie issued an ominous statement shortly afterwards.
A group of 59 Democrats in New York s state legislature on Wednesday called for Gov. Andrew Cuomo s resignation.
Democrats from both the Assembly and Senate signed onto the joint letter, which demanded Cuomo step aside and allow Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul to serve for the remainder of his term, which expires at the end of 2022.
While Cuomo faces several major scandals simultaneously, the joint letter from lawmakers comes on the heels of the most serious allegation of sexual misconduct against Cuomo to date, with a sixth accuser reportedly telling her supervisor that the governor aggressively groped her in a sexually charged manner.