The chair of the Erie County GOP Committee has a long list of questions about Sam Hoyt’s alleged misdoings.

“The governor clearly had to know something. If not personally, his senior aides,” said Nick Langworthy, speaking with the media Wednesday.

“This doesn’t happen in normal life, folks.”

Langworthy wants Governor Andrew Cuomo and others to address how much they knew about allegations against Hoyt, the former Empire State Development Regional president.

Hoyt is being investigated for having a consensual affair with an employee outside ESD. The former employee came forward this week, claiming Hoyt paid her $50,000 to settle a sexual harassment case that was filed after their affair ended.

Langworthy says he doubts Hoyt would have paid the settlement without Cuomo’s knowledge.

"The governor likes to...be this champion of women's issues. Yet, when you see things that are inconvenient for him, he changes the subject. He didn't want to give all of the money back in the Harvey Weinstein situation -- only some of it," he said.

That was a reference to Weinstein's campaign contributions to Cuomo.

Langworthy says he thinks the fallout from the accusations against the Hollywood mogul prompted Cuomo to force Hoyt to resign to avoid controversy when he's up for reelection next year.

During an interview Wednesday, Cuomo didn't directly respond to a question about whether he asked Hoyt to step down.

Jeremy Zellner, chair of the Erie County Democratic Committee, said Langworthy has “injected sexual harassment into this election.”

Zellner asserts that the Democratic Party has zero tolerance for sexual harassment from officials in any party.

The governor's press secretary said in a statement that Cuomo's office ordered investigations from three separate entities when it found out about the allegations.

Two are ongoing.