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Podcast: The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte
Episode: Larry interviews former Secretary to the N. Y. S. Governor, Author and Political Strategist Melissa DeRosa
Description: From April 2013 to August 2021, Melissa DeRosa served as Communications Director, Strategic Advisor, Chief of Staff and Secretary to Governor Cuomo. Ms. DeRosa is the first woman to ever serve in the role of Secretary to the Governor, the highest unelected position in state government.She spearheaded the Governor’s campaigns to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, enact the nation’s strongest paid family leave program, establish the Excelsior Scholarship, making New York the first state in the country to provide free public college tuition for middle- and low-income families, mandate insurance coverage for medically-necessary IVF, and played a cru...