Ive audited that bureaucracy. Its easy to blame the relative lack of curiosity about the underlying story on the cliche of a hollowed-out local press corps, but thats not really true in this case. For years, New Yorks politics have been dominated by a culture of sexual harassment, she added in a statement released Friday evening. Yuh-Line Niou, a state assemblywoman from Manhattan, told me she thought the media had unfairly put a lot of pressure on women who are survivors to speak up, an experience that had been scary and in a lot of ways violent. She said she would have backed Mr. Stringer if hed acknowledged that hed harmed Ms. Kim, and added that his denial revealed that he had come from a time when people dont talk about what it is to be human, that you have to be perfect somehow. State Senator Alessandra Biaggi said that the moment had been incredibly painful but that shed begun to feel that my integrity was being compromised by staying with Mr. Stringer.
State Senator Alessandra Biaggi spoke up and backed Mr. Ferris.
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