‘I’d have kicked Rudy’s ass,’ Christine Quinn boasts

Story here. Imagine the outrage if a male politician said something similar about a woman. Excerpt:

'When told it would have been hard for her to run against former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the 1990s because she is a lesbian, mayoral candidate Christine Quinn sounded off like a prize fighter.

“I would’ve kicked his ass,” she said of a matchup with the former federal prosecutor and two-term mayor.

Quinn, the City Council speaker, was at a same-sex marriage forum at Fordham Law School Monday night when moderator Thane Rosenbaum said running against Giuliani would have been tough for Quinn in 1993 because homosexuality was not as accepted as it is today.

That’s when Quinn offered her clipped reply, which drew laughs from the audience.'