Cenedella Rips Gillibrand Over PIPA

Written by Andrew J. Hawkins on . Posted in Blog.




 

Gillibrand was a supporter of PIPA, which would have cracked down on internet piracy of American movies and music – until a massive online protest scuttled the bill. She has since tried to clarify her support for the bill, vowing to tinker with its provision to make it less onerous and more palatable to free speech advocates.

Taking his cues from the state GOP, Cenedella, an internet entrepreneur who runs the job search site TheLadders.com, calls Gillibrand’s motives into question.

“It is unfortunate to see our junior New York Senator totally immersed in Washington-style politics,” Cenedella said in a release. “If, indeed, she took more than $600,000 in Hollywood cash and then did its bidding over the interests of her own constituents, she does not belong in public office. There are unanswered questions out there about whether she even read the bill before putting her name on it.”

According to OpenSecrets.org, Gillibrand did indeed accept over $600,000 from entertainment industry over the last year.Hollywood was the sixth most generous industry to her campaign.

This may be Cenedella’s attempt to draw attention away from a New York Times story from yesterday, which shone a light on Cenedella’s racy blog posts about women, drugs and sex.  Cenedella’s camp has given conflicting explanations about the authorship of the blog, which has since been taken down.I’ll update with Gillibrand’s response when I receive it.

[UPDATE] Gillibrand spokesman Glenn Caplin sent this reply:

“Marc Cenedella is grasping at straws to change the conversation from his offensive blog posts that are unfit for any office. The question isn’t about the difference of opinion they have with people like the Republican dean Pete King on the substance of legislation intended to protect New York jobs. This question is about Marc Cenedella’s character and his lack of judgment as a CEO. There were almost as many excuses yesterday as there are offensive blog posts about sex and drugs by Cenedella. The question is will Ed Cox continue to stand by a potential candidate responsible for such sexist and offensive material?”  




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