Stewart-Cousins hits Molinaro on women’s issues

ALBANY – The Senate Democrat looking to become the state’s first female legislative majority leader says GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro “will be nothing short of a disaster for the women of New York.”

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins of Yonkers on Thursday issued a letter detailing what she calls Molinaro’s anti-woman agenda.

She hit Molinaro for being anti-abortion rights. And said as an assemblyman, he voted five times against a bill to require equal pay for women and wanted to keep in place the practice of shackling pregnant female inmates during labor.

“Imagine that—he thinks women giving birth need to be shackled,” she wrote.

She also knocked him for not taking a position on whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed. Molinaro it wasn’t for him to say whether Kavanaugh should be approved.

The letter asks Molinaro whether why he voted against equal pay for women, and whether he would codify Roe v. Wade under New York law if it is overturned by the Supreme Court.

“Bottom line: Marc Molinaro’s political opinions and values are not only wrong for New York but also disastrous and destructive for women,” Stewart-Cousins wrote.

The Molinaro campaign had no comment on Stewart-Cousins’ letter.

But Republican consultant Michael Lawler hit back on Twitter.

“This from the woman who stood by @ShellyBMayer when she failed to help two victims of sexual harassment in Albany,” Lawler tweeted in citing a previous Daily News story.