An Albany feud between onetime pals Melissa DeRosa and Rep. Elise Stefanik has boiled over once more because of a bizarre incident involving DeRosa’s recent tell-all book, we hear.
In the book, “What’s Left Unsaid,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former top lieutenant DeRosa, 38, recounts how she and Donald Trump’s current surrogate Stefanik, 36, met in 1995 as students at the Albany Academy for Girls, “the oldest all-girls prep day school in the country.”
But the pair got into a screaming match during COVID and haven’t spoken since.
Now the battle has blown up again, we hear, over an alleged incident at a local upstate bookstore when Stefanik’s mom weighed in on the tome.
Back in their school days at the elite Albany Academy, DeRosa viewed Stefanik — who’s now a potential vice president pick for Trump — as a “spunky, incredibly smart, and very obviously driven student.”
The future Democrat and Republican players even joined forces when running for student council to “form a new slate” and “cut a mutually beneficial deal,” that would “set up the path to our individual political careers,” and win them both the school election.
When the former classmates wound up in Washington, DC, after attending Ivy League schools, DeRosa writes, “People would ask how Elise and I could even speak to each other, given our political differences.”
But the former classmates, “attended each other’s weddings, and went to one another for professional and personal advice.”
DeRosa still has a photo from Stefanik’s wedding posted on Instagram with the caption, “She may be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, but to me she will always be my middle school student council running mate & snack machine negotiator. Congrats gorgeous bride.”
The unlikely friendship ended during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Stefanik publicly called DeRosa’s boss, Cuomo, “the worst governor…
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