columnist @NYPost, TV personality, fmr. 1", "Daily Show: Exclusive Betsy McCaughey Extended Interview Pt. She chose the gold shoes, she said, lifting her billowing ivory silk gown to display them, "because I feel like Cinderella -- aren't they pretty?". McCaughey, Elizabeth. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Betsy insists it was a misunderstanding, and that she meant no harm. Nevertheless, she then married Wilbur Ross a wealthy investment banker in the year 1995. "We cannot falter now," McCaughey says. Columbia University, Ph.D., 1976, Columbia University, Master of Arts, 1972, 2015-present:Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, 2003-present: Founder and Chairman of Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, 1998-2002: Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, 1994-1998: Lt. And the guest list was so large, she added, because they decided to opt for "inclusive rather than expensive.". Ill answer anything you want to know about health care, being a mother, and Ill even take a shot about cooking, Betsy says, to change the subject. Vassar College and a Columbia University doctorate followed. If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?" However, supporters of the stimulus bill provision said that research funded would provide additional evidence to guide treatment decisions and save lives and money by avoiding unnecessary, ineffective, or risky treatments. Furthermore, the two met in college. The newly constituted family plans to search for a bigger apartment in Manhattan -- the bride and groom currently live about 20 blocks apart on the East Side -- and a place in Albany. No one else has the nerve.. [7] Rather than following protocol as lieutenant governor by taking a seat with everyone else during Pataki's State of the State address to the legislature in 1996, McCaughey stood for the entire 56 min speech's length, further attracting attention to herself at her governor's expense. Damage that McCaughey clearly approves of. Tully, who performed the ceremony, asked the guests to turn off their cellular phones. Not to mention herself", "Betsy's registry. Talk about inventing an enemy to rile up the base. Um, I dont know at which schools McCaughey has been hanging out, but from what I can tell, those schools are not on planet Earth. Shes been recycling these charges for two years.. DAnne Witkowski is a poet, writer, and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. [50] Regarding her status as a political rookie, McCaughey said, "Many New Yorkers see that as a plus. I remember my parents sitting at the kitchen table wondering if they could afford to take [him] to the hospital. Though she had always voted Republican in presidential elections and taken conservative Republican policy positions, McCaughey suddenly switched her party affiliation to Democrat and soon announced plans to run for governor against Pataki. Required fields are marked *. They are often marginalized and the target of violence, especially trans women of color. Collect, curate and comment on your files. She was alone. [5], She received a scholarship to attend Vassar College, where she majored in history. [7] In March 1996, The New York Times reported that McCaughey was locked out of the governor's inner circle because she had violated the "unwritten rules" of the conventional lieutenant governor's role. [75] The stimulus bill was passed with the healthcare-related provisions still included. McCaughey wrote op-eds over the next six months in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today in which she supported the 1993 selection of a jury from predominately-white, Republican, rural counties for the urban (Memphis)-located retrial of African American and Democratic US Representative Harold Ford, Sr.,[28] and praised the 1993 Shaw v. Reno Supreme Court decision, favoring five white voters who said their rights had been infringed upon by redistricting that had been done to comply with the Voting Rights Act. This backlash is especially vicious against transgender people, with right-wing conservatives using the existence of people who dont neatly fit into male or female from birth as fundraising and fear raising fodder. He was then moving up as an investment banker. She has a penchant to flirt with everybody, male and female. [59], In 2004, she founded the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) in reaction to a rise in antibiotic resistant staphylococcus aureus and other hospital-borne infections. Although Mr. Ross is a prominent fund-raiser for the Democratic Party and Ms. McCaughey is considered a rising Republican star, the couple are determined that "Partisanship has taken a back seat to love this time," Ms. McCaughey said, repeating a favorite line. Betsy now claims she signed the agreement under duress, and that Ross failed to pony up another $2.25 million hed promised to spend on her campaign. She shed her working-class life with a marriage to wealthy Thomas McCaughey, which brought her three daughters, now 16, 18 and 20 years old, and the Park Avenue spread that covers an entire. [27], In February 1993, the John M. Olin Foundation funded a fellowship at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, for McCaughey to write a book on race and the legal system to be titled Beyond Pluralism: Overcoming the Narcissism of Minor Differences. Theyre human beings and should be treated as such. Uh. Last night's convention-size wedding at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue and the reception on the aircraft carrier-museum Intrepid -- a bash so big the couple said they did not have even a ball-park number for the several hundred guests -- provided the requisite happy ending. At one of the gubernatorial debates, she showed up in a purple cocktail dress!. [46] The "No Exit" article won the National Magazine Award for excellence in the public interest. Watch this gripping interview with a new member of Congress, Andy Ogles. Im going to try it the private way this time, she says, making one of the few oblique references to her marriage to Wilbur Ross, whom she is suing for more than $20 million over his failure to pay $2.25 million she claims he promised to spend on her failed bid for governor. With her nuptials next month, Lt. Gov. In 2005, she founded and is now Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (also known as RID), a nationwide educational campaign to stop hospital-acquired infections. Team Biden's 401 (k) heist could raid your retirement for a woke agenda. Biden is determined to increase that by making the $6.8 trillion held by 401 (k) plans more available to union companies than nonunion ones. The second worrisome change is that Biden makes ESG . Of course, she does. [13][15] From 1986 to 1988, she served as a guest curator at the New-York Historical Society and was responsible for the museum's exhibit commemorating the bicentennial of the US Constitution. DURING our hourlong chat in her antiques-laden apartment, Betsy delivers lengthy dissertations about her three current passions health-care policy, education reform and cooking with a Cuisinart. Betsy McCaughey, who railed against "the transgender militants" in a recent piece on World Net Daily. For years, Betsy was content to toil in obscurity as a Manhattan Institute scholar. Among the complexities were arrangements for guests who included Gov. When youre 51 years old and you get up each morning and youre completely healthy, you have nothing to complain about.. Trans people are not exactly a powerful lobby, unlike the Christian conservatives who demonize them. Even the story of the couple's romance has moments of blithe hype. [31][32] Citing words and phrases from the draft, she argued that the 77 percent of Americans then covered by insurance would see a downgrade in their policies, and most would not be able to keep their own physicians but be forced into price-controlled health maintenance organizations (HMOs), which would provide only the most basic care. Elizabeth Peterken McCaughey, who prefers to be called Betsy, was born with her twin brother William in Pittsburgh on Oct. 10, 1948. [7] McCaughey went on to graduate school at Columbia University in New York City, earning her MA in 1972 and her PhD in constitutional history in 1976. SURPRISINGLY, Betsy now backs Hillary Clinton for the Senate. [32] According to McCaughey, the HMO plans would not pay for visits to specialists or for second opinions, and most physicians would be driven out of private practice. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. She stood up during Patakis 1996 State of the State address a move many saw as an attempt to upstage the governor. [16] He filed for divorce in November 1998. And, thus, "death panels." document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2019 LGBTQ San Diego County News. Not just in health class? Does she think that LGBTQ+ people are just biological oddities and havent contributed to history and society? Betsy didnt do the press conference. [81], McCaughey described Emanuel in a New York Post opinion article as a "Deadly Doctor" who advocated healthcare rationing by age and disability. Maine requires public school teachers to explore the achievements of LGBTQ+ individuals, not just in health class but also in history and social studies, she writes. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. Hes already told the transgender crowd, Your president has your back. Her quirky appearance at the biggest social event of the year in city politics did not go unnoticed by attendees, who saw it as a public comedown. After that one lying story full of lies made her famous, Al D'Amato told George Pataki to make her Lietenant Governor of New York. If teaching that to kids is indoctrination, then Im all for it. Just five years earlier, Betsy McCaughey Ross was the highest-ranking woman in New York politics, and a fixture on every invitation list. In addition to the Park Avenue apartment, which she owns outright, she recently landed a $150,000 a year job with the Hudson Institute. She was a member of the boards of directors of medical equipment companies Genta (from 2001 to 2007) and Cantel Medical Corporation, but she resigned in 2009 to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest with her public advocacy against the Affordable Care Act. And you can thank the Obama health law. . She lies. This was all before Ruth Shalit and Stephen Glass. The things she writes are untrue. [1] However, McCaughey's recommendations were largely ignored.[53]. And then she sits down to write a very serious and nonpartisan and concerned piece of analysis of this evil thing in the legislation that she made up. And shell be horrified that Im starting the piece this way. DAnne Witkowski is a writer living in Michigan with her wife and son. TODAY, while Betsy acknowledges errors in judgment, she remains unrepentant. The daughter of a devoted father who was a maintenance man in a nail-clipper factory, Ms. McCaughey won a scholarship to a private high school and to Vassar, then went on to Columbia and ultimately received a Ph.D. in constitutional history, while marrying, rearing three daughters and divorcing along the way. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. [73][75] Republican US Representative Charles Boustany Jr. of Louisiana, a heart surgeon, added that he feared that comparative effectiveness research would be misused by federal bureaucrats to "ration care, to deny life-saving treatment to seniors and disabled people". They are not even "distortions." They are made-up. "Like justice, jury selection should be colorblind". Simply moving on is unacceptable. It's one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations or censors your tweets. Last month, Betsy showed up at the cocktail party before the annual Inner Circle charity dinner, where Hillary Clinton was a star attraction. [11] She was a member of the board of directors of Genta, a company focused on the delivery of innovative products for cancer treatment from 2001 to her resignation in October 2007. As a political newcomer, its obvious Ive made mistakes in protocol. McCaughey uses Maine as an example of a place thats gone crazy for transgender people. [5] She wrote her senior thesis on Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville,[5] won several fellowships, and received her BA, with distinction, in 1970. [65] Sources for her analysis included a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non profit, non partisan research organization,[66] and an article in the British medical journal Lancet Oncology, which analyzed 20002002 cancer survival figures from Europe. Education The couple's five daughters -- Ms. McCaughey's three and Mr. Ross's two -- all played roles, from flower girl to ring-bearer. What makes Feders book so, well, cool, is that it truly is a celebration of bodies of all shapes, sizes, genders, colors, and abilities. There, she wrote an article, book reviews, and a guest editorial for its journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly (PSQ),[19] and an op-ed in USA Today advocating reform of the Electoral College method of electing the president. [61] She has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and many radio shows to discuss her research and how to prevent infection deaths. Save for the revelation about her new beau she wont identify him Citizen Betsy doesnt want to talk about her chaotic personal life. [80][86] Factcheck.org said this was incorrect and that "Emanuel's meaning is being twisted he was talking about a philosophical trend, and writing about how to make the most ethical choices when forced to choose which patients get organ transplants or vaccines when supplies are limited. McCaughey, Elizabeth P. "Democracy at risk: the dangerous flaws in the Electoral College". In 1993 she read the 1,362-page Clinton health bill, warned the nation what it said, and made history. [69] She argued that the bill would establish two powerful new bureaucracies: the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Or maybe not . [48], In 2009, The Daily Beast called her "The Woman Who Killed Health Care". [40] Bill Kristol's Project for the Republican Future quickly launched television advertisements featuring quotes from McCaughey's two Wall Street Journal op-ed columns and her The New Republic article. Photo-ops, empty promises and such will be followed by rapid backsliding. [11] She also took courses in accounting at Columbia's School of Business. To hear McCaughey tell it, President Joe Biden is basically colluding with school districts to make every child transgender and every teacher a transgender life coach. 2 Now Has Own Pulpit", "The 1994 Elections: New York State; Pataki Says No. [5][12] In 1972, she married Thomas K. McCaughey, a Yale College graduate she had met in college. In this eye-opening Broadside, she dissects the 2,700-page health legislation, shows how it will affect you and your family, and presents a battle plan to overturn it. Then suddenly, in February of 1994, she shot to national prominence with her critiques of the Clinton Administration's plans for health-care plan, and, though a complete political neophyte, was tapped as Governor Pataki's running mate in the 1994 campaign. McCaughey also serves on the Mount Sinai Lung Cancer Advisory Board and the board of the nonprofit Yankee Institute, a think tank that promotes fiscal integrity and sound state policies. Right-wing conservatives are using the existence of people who don't neatly fit into "male" or "female" from birth as fundraising and fear-raising fodder. "[83] During an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which aired on August 20, 2009, McCaughey repeated these assertions about the counselling sessions and referred to the Factcheck.org as "spot-check dot org", claiming they failed to adequately read the House health care bill. "[62], McCaughey criticized the campaign, saying that it should instead refocus on educating people about cancer prevention and detection. "[37][38] (When the memo was discussed in a 2009 story in Rolling Stone, McCaughey declined to comment. Even in parts of the country that are more liberal, being a trans kid is hard. "[1], McCaughey attended public schools in Westport through the 10th grade, spending much of her free time at the library. [75] Other conservatives agreed that the legislation could put the federal government in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. 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