Republican lawmakers demand Gov. Hochul to cut CUNY funding after ‘hate-filled’ commencement speech

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Senate GOP Leader Rob Ortt fired off a letter to Hochul after footage a controversial speech by a CUNY law school graduate went viral.

Senate GOP Leader Rob Ortt and a handful of other Republicans fired off the letter to Hochul after footage of CUNY law school graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s May 12 commencement speech went viral.

“However, we are deeply troubled by what appears to be a misguided and potentially destructive shift toward enabling, embracing and even celebrating radical, intolerant and hate-filled political viewpoints on our CUNY and SUNY campuses.order, and anti-US viewpoints and philosophies that are clearly inappropriate for any crediblehardworking New Yorkers.”

It comes after Mohammed took to the stage during the law school commencement and called for a “revolution” to take on the legal system’s “white supremacy.”

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