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Governor Cuomo Tries To Create Youth Brigade

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One wonders who he was trying to emulate. “Despite privacy laws, Gov. Cuomo’s campaign obtained the names of students who scored one of the state’s new Excelsior Scholarships and solicited them to appear in an ad promoting Cuomo’s re-election,” Carl Campanile reported in The New York Post. “Federal law requires government and universities to protect students’ personal information and records.”

“So how did the Cuomo campaign find these kids? It says it just happened to know that many of them had been invited to the governor’s 2018 State of the State speech — and asked the Cuomo administration for the invite list.”

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Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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