Former New York State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco had been an open critic of Governor Andrew Cuomo when they served together, and wrote about some of it in his book.

DeFrancisco says Cuomo’s management style gave him pause as he watched him in office for over eight years.

“He’s a narcissistic bully,” DeFrancisco said. “He is a micromanager of the first degree. So when he says he doesn’t know something, or he wasn’t involved with it, or he didn’t mean what he said, it falls on my deaf ears.”

When he lost a bid for New York Senate majority leader, DeFrancisco said he caught Cuomo in a lie and what felt like manipulation.

“The next morning, Andrew Cuomo calls me up and says, 'John, I'm sorry you didn’t get the majority leader spot, and you would’ve been a great majority leader.' I said, 'Well, if that’s the case, what in the hell were you doing calling senators to try to vote for the other guy? Oh, I never did that, I never did that.' I said, 'Did you think I am a moron? I’ve had senators call me to tell me that he was pressuring them to vote for the other guy.”

DeFrancisco thought the governor would wait and only resign if it could help prevent any charges from being filed against him.

“I’m kind of shocked, quite frankly," DeFrancisco said. "I didn’t think he would ever step down. I thought he would wait to make a deal.”

A seasoned politician, DeFrancisco said Cuomo stepping aside now could have dire consequences for politicians other than Hochel that had hopes of running for governor.

“Now, it is going to be interesting to see how the battle goes for the nomination next time. Because Kathy Hochul will be the new governor once he steps down, and no doubt she’s not just going to say, 'Look, I’m just here for a year and a half.' And there’s a lot of downstate Democrats that are salivating for the opportunity to run,” DeFrancisco said.

He says what was old is new again, and he reminded others of the part Cuomo played in former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s investigation and resignation.

“Andrew Cuomo played a role in Spitzer going down, quite frankly, because he was anxious to become governor. I believe he helped Joe Bruno, Spitzer’s biggest enemy, the former Senate majority leader, in doing investigations of Spitzer's use of the State Police.”

In his book “Never Say Never,” DeFrancisco writes an entire chapter on what he feels was the bungling and witch hunting of the Moreland Commission, which served as a warning to legislators that would go against Cuomo.

 “The reason he did it is because the Legislature wouldn’t pass some of the bills that he wanted,” DeFrancisco says. “It would’ve given him more power, quite frankly. He uses this Moreland Commission to investigate the Legislature. He establishes the commission, makes all these grandiose, bombastic comments that it's not against the Legislature. You can investigate me, you can investigate anyone you want to investigate. When the commission started issuing subpoenas to his close higher staff, he decided he was going to disband the Moreland Commission. But that was him. That was him."

DeFrancisco says charges should still be brought against Gov. Cuomo.

"I think there should at least be charges brought and then a court and a jury can decide if there is enough evidence to prove any of this," he said.