Women's Equality Express To Victory

With almost a month away to the November 4th election, the Cuomo campaign is heading out on a bus tour to three major upstate cities (Albany, Syracuse, Rochester) to highlight their support of a 10-point women's rights agenda.  He is calling this bus tour "Women's Equality Express" and it is being highly supported by many members of the democratic community like Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle. Some issues that are being addressed by the 10-point women's rights agenda are; strengthening the laws that require equal pay for equal work, since women preforming the same jobs as males get paid 84% of what their male counterparts do. Other issues focus on strengthening laws against sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as limiting the amount of discrimination that women face when applying for jobs and limiting the amount of discrimination they face while working at their jobs. 

Cuomo's gubernatorial opponent Rob Astorino is attacking the validity of the bus tour and is going on a bus tour himself, calling it the "Shelly Silver Express" which is an attack at the governor for not calling for the resignation of Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver who has been often criticized for his handling of sexual-harassment cases in the chamber. Astorino addressed the Sheldon Silver issue by saying "Mr. Cuomo showed zero regard for the victims of these sex crimes, choosing instead to prop up a political crony by burying an investigation--a habit that continues to this day. My Cuomo needs to explain at every stop of his tour Saturday whether equality was extended to Mr. Silvers victims."