Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio has a new enemy in the battle over higher education spending: Former General David Petraeus.
CUNY has come under increasing scrutiny since it was revealed that they will pay Mr. Petraeus–who resigned as CIA director last year after an FBI investigation revealed an extramarital affair with his biographer–$150,000 to teach just three hours a week. Needless to say, this amount is significantly higher than the salaries of most full-time professors and Mr. de Blasio disapproves.
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