Yeah, I was shocked that Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the marriage bill into law that raised the age floor for minors to get married in New York from 14 to 17. I had thought that he would have had more sense than to believe every bit of nonsense that Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot sent his way, because, after all, there was a situation back in 2013 in which he had pardoned a man for a statutory rape conviction that he felt was unfair. A gentleman named Rocco Paciello and his wife had been married for over 25 years and Mr. Paciello and his wife had suffered financial difficulty through the years inasmuch as Mr. Paciello had a police record for a frivolous statutory rape conviction from 1988 that was a result of Mr. Paciello getting his wife pregnant when she was 15 years old and he was 22 years old before they were legally married. Because of this police record, Mr. Paciello and his wife and kids wrongfully had to endure the financial consequences of it for way too long. Governor Cuomo reviewed the situation and issued a full pardon to Mr. Paciello so that he would no longer have a police record. After Governor Cuomo did so, I had believed that he was going to be wiser than to submit to the shenanigans of Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot on the marriage age issue that they presented to the New York legislature in Albany.

The major complaint that many New Yorkers have about the minimum age floor being 17 years old in their state is that minors automatically get charged as adults at the age of 16 if they commit a crime, but they have to wait one more year to be able to get married. I recently heard that Governor Cuomo will be running for president soon. Well, I can frankly say that I will likely not be voting for him in the next presidential election, because I had thought that he was a wiser person than to have allowed for Unchained At Last and the Tahirih Justice Center to sway him to do what they insisted upon to serve their own agenda rather than looking at the situation from a whole broad picture. Although he has done some good things throughout his political career, I somehow do not believe that he would be able to handle presiding over an entire nation, especially one as big as the United States of America.