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theHandpuppet

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Wed Jun 4, 2014, 12:34 AM Jun 2014

Women’s rights group slams CUNY appointee for calling Gaga a ‘slut’

The New York Post
Women’s rights group slams CUNY appointee for calling Gaga a ‘slut’
By Carl Campanile

...Women’s rights advocates are attacking Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appointment of Staten Island conservative James Molinaro to CUNY’s Board of Trustees for once calling pop entertainer Lady Gaga a “slut” and opposing public funding for unwed teen moms.

Cuomo nominated ally Molinaro last December.

But his office requested that a scheduled Senate confirmation vote last month be postponed after some liberal Democrats threatened to grill Molinaro about his controversial views and vote against his selection.

“Mr. Molinaro has demonstrated a callous and uninformed perspective on the real lives of young women,” said Sonia Ossorio, who heads the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women....

MORE at http://nypost.com/2014/06/03/womens-rights-group-slams-cuny-appointee-for-calling-gaga-a-slut/
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