Kathy Hochul and Tim Wu Camps Spar Over Women’s Issues
Jillian Jorgensen
As former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul gathered with a cadre of elected officials at City Hall to tout more than 100,000 petition signatures for a new Women’s Equality Party, her long-shot primary challenger for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, blasted the party as a “sham.”
That didn’t sit so well with the host of the Women’s Equality Party press conference, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
“That’s the same Tim Wu — let’s be clear — that’s the very same Tim Wu who called the women’s suffrage movement a ‘little issue,'” Ms. Quinn said. “So I don’t really have any regard for what Tim Wu has to say about what Kathy Hochul has done for women, when he thinks Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women who literally put their lives on the line, that what they did so I could vote and all these women could vote was a ‘little issue.'”
Ms. Quinn was referring to comments Mr. Wu made during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” event, as reported in The Daily Beast: “Net neutrality is like’s women’s suffrage in the teens or ’20s. It’s its own little issue. In the ’20s, most people didn’t care about women’s issues, except for women’s groups. That’s what it’s like with net neutrality.”
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/kathy-hochul-and-tim-wu-camps-spar-over-womens-issues/#ixzz3ArXzuGDD
