In addition, they have three daughters together. As a political newcomer, its obvious Ive made mistakes in protocol. "[77] The New York Times noted that Emanuel had opposed the legalization of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide when such proposals were being debated in the late 1990s. Betsy McCaughey shops for housewares", "Vows: Betsy McCaughey and Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.", "Hearing Ordered on Pact Between the Rosses", "Electoral nightmare looms: what if we can't decide", "Cigarette case threatens other businesses", "The scholar who raised Clinton's bile; Elizabeth McCaughey enjoys healthy debate", "Inside the lie machine documents from the Dickinson national affairs investigation, Doc-5", "President Insists Congress Enact Reforms in Welfare, Health Care", "Analysis of New Republic article on health care reform", "H.R. In 1994, Sullivan was on a roll, publishing both the objectively racist pseudoscience of The Bell Curve and Betsy McCaughey's No Exit. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski. Not just in health class? Does she think that LGBTQ people are just biological oddities and havent contributed to history and society? Then, she comes to the door of her Park Avenue apartment for an 11 a.m. interview wearing a black crepe suit. [18] She also authored a book, Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution, which cataloged the exhibit. Everyone has known this for years and yet she was still allowed to derail the nation this month. "[37][38] (When the memo was discussed in a 2009 story in Rolling Stone, McCaughey declined to comment. [12], McCaughey has worked on patient advocacy and healthcare policy issues since leaving office in 1999. Except that kids are faced with issues of gender far sooner than multiplication. 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. Betsy McCaughey Betsy McCaughey - December 10, 2022 3. [61] She has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and many radio shows to discuss her research and how to prevent infection deaths. From 1995 until their divorce in 2000, she was married to business magnate Wilbur Ross, who went on to serve as Secretary of Commerce during Donald Trump's presidency. Visit https://t.co/2S4E2ixKpP for more. The backlash against LGBTQ+ people continues apace even after finally getting Trump out of the White House. She hasnt ruled out adoption. 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. [39] Senator Bob Dole, in the Republican Party response to the President's State of the Union, used some of McCaughey's arguments of fewer choices, lower quality, and more government control. [7] By January 1995, McCaughey had produced a set of recommendations that required cost cutting by hospitals and nursing homes so that the poor did not have to bear the entire burden of balancing the state's Medicaid budget by a reduction of their benefits. [76] McCaughey's claims may have inspired Sarah Palin's more high-profile claims that the legislation would lead to so-called death panels. [85], In August 2009, WNYC's On the Media also addressed McCaughey's claims, concluding that the provision actually mandated that the federal government compensate "counseling sessions" on elder law, such as estate planning, "will writing and hospice care". document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2019 LGBTQ San Diego County News. One of those people is former New York Lt. Gov. My sister bought a copy for her daughter, who is almost 2. The woman who staged her last wedding aboard the aircraft carrier Intrepid, whose 600 guests included Gov. Damage that McCaughey clearly approves of. These kids are dealing with deeply rooted cultural norms and social weirdness about gender, bodies, and sexuality on top of the regular kid problems of acne and homework. Anyone whos met Betsy knows shes always happy to talk health care. Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. And asking Mexico for help is a charade. Her father, Albert Peterken, a maintenance man in a fingernail . ', In other words: if you dont hate transgender people, a good reminder that the ACLU and Biden are allies. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 1", "Daily Show: Exclusive Betsy McCaughey Extended Interview Pt. Even in parts of the country that are more liberal, being a trans kid is hard. 2023 Out In Jersey | All rights reserved. "The real McCaughey: Why the GOP's answer to Cuomo's brain has virtually vanished". 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 floor. WHEN her divorce becomes final, she says remarriage, to the mystery man, is possible. So is another run for office. McCaughey is also a syndicated columnist and weekly columnist for the New York Post, where she has strongly endorsed Donald Trumps policy positions. Hillary has not reached out for Betsys help. [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. Contact her at betsy@betsymccaughey.com or on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. [50] Regarding her status as a political rookie, McCaughey said, "Many New Yorkers see that as a plus. [3][4] The family moved around the Northeastern United States for six years before it settled down in Westport, Connecticut,[1] where McCaughey's father did maintenance and later engineering work at a nail clipper factory. Betsy McCaughey is a professional liar. All rights reserved. [98], On her Twitter feed[99] and on television,[100] McCaughey stated that members of Congress and other government employees were granted a "special subsidy" and a "premium illegally arranged by Obama" under the Affordable Care Act. McCaughey, Elizabeth P. "Democracy at risk: the dangerous flaws in the Electoral College". It made her famous and a Clinton enemy. Betsy McCaughey wed a Wall Street multimillionaire, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., last night in a candlelight ceremony that could be said to cap a storybook romance -- if the storybook were written by Sidney Sheldon. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. I said, jokingly, In what order? Then she bursts into tears and says, Youre not protecting me!, I said, I am protecting you by not allowing you to do these stupid things.'. She wants everybody to admire her. [81], McCaughey described Emanuel in a New York Post opinion article as a "Deadly Doctor" who advocated healthcare rationing by age and disability. The Wall Street Journal then published an op-ed by McCaughey in which said she had pored over the entire bill and concluded that it had price controls that would cause rationing, and the bill was dangerous. Elementary school teachers are putting words such as nonbinary and transgender on the blackboard, even before kids have learned multiplication, she writes. [5] As her opinion poll numbers sank, her husband took away more than half of the funds he had pledged to her campaign. Theyre human beings and should be treated as such. Street Racing and Sideshows Endanger the Public. 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. Betsy McCaughey, who railed against "the transgender militants" in a recent piece on World Net Daily. AKA Elizabeth Peterkin. That will change as more women enter politics.. She has been a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute thinktanks and has written numerous articles and op-eds. 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[44] Supporters of the Clinton plan questioned McCaughey's claims, including her statements that "the law will prevent you from going outside the system to buy basic health coverage you think is better" and that "doctor[s] can be paid only by the plan, not by you" by pointing to the text of the legislation such as Section 1003: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting An individual from purchasing any health care services. 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. [1] However, McCaughey's recommendations were largely ignored.[53]. [73], FactCheck.org noted that comparative effectiveness research had been funded by the US government for years but agreed with McCaughey that there would be penalties for health providers that did not use the electronic records system. 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. She was previously married to Wilbur Ross and Thomas K, McCaughey. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. If that sounds a bit politically correct, it gets better: Not wanting the wedding to smack of conspicuous consumption, Ms. McCaughey ordered decorations that did not use cut flowers, only plants, which could then be donated to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; leftover food would be donated to the hungry. [59] Other reports claimed that she resigned after negative reactions to her performance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart one day earlier.[88][89][90][91][92]. Simply moving on is unacceptable. Access the best of Getty Images and iStock with our simple subscription plan. I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder. Health care is not a litmus test for me, said the woman who breathes health-care policy. 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. Truth is, if students are to be educated rather than indoctrinated, parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants, she writes. Running on the Liberal Party line, she drew just 2 percent of the vote, narrowly beating Green Party candidate Grampa Al Lewis. [82][84] Factcheck.org called the claims "nonsense" and stated that what that section of the bill would actually do is "require Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling sessions helping seniors to plan for end-of-life medical care, including designating a health care proxy, choosing a hospice and making decisions about life-sustaining treatment. The couple's five daughters -- Ms. McCaughey's three and Mr. Ross's two -- all played roles, from flower girl to ring-bearer. This is not the last youll be hearing from Betsy McCaughey soon-not-to-be-Ross. Betsy McCaughey Elizabeth Helen McCaughey ( / mk /; ne Peterken; born October 20, 1948), [1] formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. 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. When Pataki did not tap Betsy as his running mate for re-election, she switched to the Democratic Party, then promptly announced she was seeking her boss job. What? The day after the election, Wilbur Ross filed for divorce. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. They are often marginalized and the target of violence, especially trans women of color. She was married to Thomas K. McCaughey. She has been accused of intentionally twisting facts in debates over health care and education and of presenting herself as far more of a public policy expert than her critics say her resume warrants. Or maybe not . For this is a woman who wants desperately to be heard. And then there was the moment, Ms. McCaughey said, when Mr. Ross sat down with her daughter, Caroline, to help with her homework, and "I knew this was the man for me. Pataki, his wife Libby, and me, has decided to keep mum this time around. But that also means that Bodies Are Cool is the kind of book conservatives are rallying against right now and trying to pull from library bookshelves because God forbid a kid read a book that doesnt condemn LGBTQ people. @AndyOgles @NEWSMAX Family (1) Spouse Wilbur Ross (December 1995 - November 1998) (divorced) Thomas K, McCaughey (1972 - 1994) (divorced) (3 children) Trivia (7) Her rapid rise has been laced with some controversy. [57] Following the election, she divorced and then sued her former husband alleging "$40 million fraud", claiming that he promised to fund her campaign unconditionally. [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. Damage that McCaughey clearly approves of. The couple's five daughters -- Ms. McCaughey's three and Mr. Ross's two -- all played roles, from flower girl to ring-bearer. Or her chaotic public life, for that matter, which includes a disastrous run for governor, and many stories from former associates who suggest Betsy is as flaky as French pastry. Even the story of the couple's romance has moments of blithe hype. Theyre human beings and should be treated as such. "[62], McCaughey criticized the campaign, saying that it should instead refocus on educating people about cancer prevention and detection. Sorry, not to the American Civil Liberties Union, despite its century-long record protecting the free exercise of religion, she writes, as if being anti-LGBTQ is a religionDont count on Biden, she continues. In a radio interview with Fred Thompson, McCaughey got more explicit, wholly inventing mandatory death panel sessions American seniors would have to face every five years. We are hard pressed to come up any equivalent figure on "the left," who openly and intentionally lies in the service of her partisan arguments, and who continues to do so with relative impunity, in major publications, long after the lies are exposed. Everyone wishes their marriage worked out. 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[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. [58] She was also a member of the board of directors of the Cantel Medical Corporation, a medical device manufacturer, from 2005 to her resignation in August 2009 to avoid the appearance a conflict of interest while she was engaged in advocacy on healthcare reform legislation. My only regret is that I didnt have more children she says. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. By Betsy McCaughey. 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?". [21][22], McCaughey also wrote op-ed columns that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today in which she opposed plans involving local and state redistricting to comply with the Voting Rights Act,[23] and she criticized federal court-ordered desegregation of schools in Connecticut and New Jersey. [77][78][79][80] The provisions in the legislation that McCaughey advocated against were removed from the bill before it became law. Among the complexities were arrangements for guests who included Gov. [75] Other conservatives agreed that the legislation could put the federal government in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. 2023 may turn out to be the year when grieving Americans finally get answers. 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