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New York Daily News
BY KEN LOVETT NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, April 4, 2016
Here is the the lead item from my “Albany Insider” column this morning:
A state assemblywoman’s desire to use Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight” to boost her fight to help child sexual abuse victims has run into a roadblock—her own chamber’s leadership.
Assembly Democratic leaders are refusing to allow Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D-Queens) from holding a screening of the film at the Capitol complex during a two-day lobbying effort in May to build support for her bill to make it easier for people sexually abused as kids to bring lawsuits as adults.
Markey’s office, which received a Blueray copy of this year’s Best Picture winner that chronicles the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse by priests, was originally told it was a copyright issue.
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