Gov. Andrew Cuomo says gun-loving pro-lifers not welcome in New York, right explodes [View all]
Source: Raw Story
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says gun-loving pro-lifers not welcome in New York, right explodes
By David Ferguson
Saturday, January 18, 2014 14:28 EST
Right-wing media figures of all stripes are outraged that New York Gov. Chris Cuomo (D) said that New York state is no place for “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” Republicans.
“(T)hey have no place in the state of New York,” the governor said, “because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
The Albany Times-Union reported that Cuomo was speaking to Susan Arbetter on the New York Public Broadcasting radio show “The Capitol Pressroom.”
The National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez interpreted Cuomo’s statements to mean anyone who opposes abortion. In a column titled “Pro-Life? Not Welcome in Andrew Cuomo’s New York,” she lamented that people who want do deny a woman’s right to choose are, as ever, being unfairly persecuted.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/18/gov-andrew-cuomo-says-gun-loving-pro-lifers-not-welcome-in-new-york-right-explodes/
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