'Let's Have a Panda,' Says NY Congresswoman With Extremely Good Priorities
Latest“Securing pandas for any American city is an undertaking of extraordinary diplomatic and financial complexity,” writes the New York Times, in a piece about Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s extremely specific quest to bring two pandas to New York City. “The costs of leasing pandas from China, feeding them and building a suitable habitat would run into the tens of millions of dollars.”
And, of course, there are four cities in America with pandas already—D.C., Atlanta, San Diego, and Memphis all have BBW (big, black & white) zoo bears who pretend to be pregnant and don’t really know how to fuck. But Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York’s 14th District, who sponsored the first same-sex partnership bill in New York City in 1990 and was also the first member of the New York City Council to give birth while in office, is all: