{"id":3748,"date":"2018-03-26T03:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2018-03-26T03:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:22:35","slug":"unqualified-lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/unqualified-lesbian\/","title":{"rendered":"Unqualified Lesbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently told you that&nbsp;<strong><em>Sex and the City<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;star&nbsp;<strong>Cynthia Nixon&nbsp;<\/strong>was going to run for governor of New York.&nbsp; At the time, many scoffed.&nbsp; Now Cynthia has formally thrown her hat (does anyone still wear a hat?) in the ring.&nbsp; And she\u2019s running on the subway platform \u2013 literally!&nbsp; \u201cOur leaders are letting us down.&nbsp; Something has to change.&nbsp; We want our government to work again, on health care, ending mass incarceration, fixing our broken subways.\u201d&nbsp; News of her candidacy was met with derision.&nbsp; Governor&nbsp;<strong>Cuomo&nbsp;<\/strong>said, \u201cI\u2019m hoping that&nbsp;<strong>Brad Pitt&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Angelina Jolie&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Billy Joel&nbsp;<\/strong>don\u2019t get into the race because if it\u2019s just about name recognition, that would really be a problem.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest insult came from NYC Council Speaker&nbsp;<strong>Christine Quinn<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s a flight of fancy on her part.&nbsp; Cynthia Nixon was opposed to having a qualified lesbian become mayor of New York City.&nbsp; Now she wants to be an unqualified lesbian to be the governor of New York.\u201d&nbsp; Now, I don\u2019t know much about Nixon.&nbsp; But I know she was married to a man for 15 years and to a woman for five \u2013 so I say she\u2019s qualified to do whatever the hell she wants.&nbsp; I\u2019m assuming Cynthia criticized Quinn (who is also a lesbian) when she was running for mayor of NYC.&nbsp; Sounds like tit for tat \u2013 literally!&nbsp; Nixon took the barb in stride.&nbsp; \u201cI just want to say tonight that she was technically right \u2013 that I don\u2019t have my certificate from the&nbsp;<em>Department of Lesbian Affairs<\/em>.&nbsp; Though, in my defense, there\u2019s a lot of paperwork involved.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently told you that&nbsp;Sex and the City&nbsp;star&nbsp;Cynthia Nixon&nbsp;was going to run for governor of New York.&nbsp; At the time, many scoffed.&nbsp; Now Cynthia has formally thrown her hat (does anyone still wear a hat?) in the ring.&nbsp; And she\u2019s running on the subway platform \u2013 literally!&nbsp; \u201cOur leaders are letting us down.&nbsp; Something has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}