Gov. Kathy Hochul has appointed a wealthy 91-year-old campaign donor to the City University of New York’s board of trustees amid outcries over hate speech and a machete-wielding professor.
Her husband, Carl Spielvogel, was a prominent ad executive and served as U.S. ambassador to the Slovak Republic, died in 2021.Aside from Hochul, she and her husband delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations combined to heavy Democratic Party hitters, including the campaigns of President Biden, former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, former Govs. Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, Sen.
The appointment of Diamondstein-Spielvogel, who is Jewish, comes at a time when Jewish activists have complained about a paucity of leaders who are Jewish at CUNY’s 25 campusesHochul nominated Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel to replace trustee Fernando Ferrer.She was selected by then-President Ronald Reagan to the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and served as chair and CEO of the New York State Council on the Arts.
“All funding initiatives are through an invitational process only; we are unable to accept unsolicited applications,” the foundation’s website said.Dr. Diamondstein-Spielvogel, who has donated $7,500 to Hochul’s campaigns, has worked at the White House, as the first director of Cultural Affairs for New York City.
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