She also accompanied the cast to South Carolina, for a performance to protest that State Legislature's decision to cut funding to the College of Charleston because it included "Fun Home" on a reading list, offending lawmakers who objected to the book's positive portrayal of lesbianism.
The day before, he had offended many lawmakers when he made an offhand remark that black leaders took as an allusion to lynching.
When lobbying in Albany for the mayor's congestion-pricing proposal that first year, Ms. Sadik-Khan offended several lawmakers by warning, "You are either for this historic change in New York or you're against it".
It was the latest comment from the Democratic governor to offend Republican lawmakers as well as those from his own party, who were incensed in July after Mr. Paterson said in a televised address that he would end their summer vacations and bring them back to Albany for a special legislative session, implying that they were idle during the recess.
Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc)., who was presiding over the floor when the anonymous Republican member made the outburst, told reporters he knows who the offending lawmaker is but won't name names.
Indeed, several lawmakers, already offended by what they saw as the mayor's past highhandedness, said that the hardball tactics employed by Mr. Bloomberg and his surrogates simply made a bad situation worse.
And while at a bipartisan meeting of lawmakers on Thursday, Trump reportedly offended U.S. allies across Central America, the Caribbean and Africa by denigrating them as "shithole countries". This is a "more professional White House"?
Lawmakers tended to take the speaker's criticism in stride, but "some members were offended," said Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana.
One lawmaker, Nurlan Sulaimanov, fretted that the 5-foot-7-inch Russian leader might be offended by the relatively small size of the peak.
