Max Rose vs. Nicole Malliotakis 
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 The congressional election in southern Brooklyn has  
 become boro’s hottest contest. We sat down for an  
 exclusive interview with both candidates.  
 Malliotakis: A Staten Island native, Nicole  
 Malliotakis was fi rst elected to the state assembly  
 in  2010  to  represent East New York  and  
 New Lots. Since 2012, she has served as assemblywoman  
 in the 64th District covering northeast  
 Staten Island and a sliver of Bay Ridge. Malliotakis  
 ran against Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Republican  
 ticket during his reelection campaign  
 in 2017. 
 Malliotakis  said  that  some  of  her  proudest  
 achievements include the restoration of local and  
 express bus service in southern Brooklyn and  
 Staten Island, her successful efforts to strip pensions  
 from elected offi cials who were convicted of  
 crimes, and her work to help the district recover  
 and rebuild after Superstorm Sandy.  
 BY ROSE ADAMS 
 In  exclusive  interviews  
 with  Brooklyn  Paper,  congressional  
 rivals  Max  Rose  
 and Nicole Malliotakis explained  
 their stances on a  
 range of local and national  
 issues and outlined their priorities  
 if elected to congress’  
 lower chamber. 
 Election  day,  less  than  
 two weeks away on Nov. 3,  
 will decide the winner of  
 the heated race for the 11th  
 congressional district encompassing  
 Staten Island,  
 Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights,  
 Bath Beach, and a part of  
 Gravesend. The race has  
 shaped  up  to  be  one  of  the  
 most-watched in the country, 
   as  freshman  congressman  
 Max Rose, a Democrat,  
 fi ghts to hold onto his post in  
 the district that voted overwhelmingly  
 for President  
 Donald Trump in 2016. 
 Scathing attack ads on  
 either side of the aisle have  
 taken center stage in the  
 election, but in interviews  
 with  Brooklyn  Paper,  both  
 candidates dug beneath the  
 mud-slinging, and elaborated  
 on their policy views  
 and visions for the district.  
 Below  is  an  excerpt  of  
 our conversation with the  
 candidates.  Read  the  full  
 discussion  at  BroklynPaper. 
 com  
 ACHIEVEMENTS 
 Rose:  Max  Rose, a Park Slope native,  
 served in the armed forces for fi ve years and  
 earned a Purple Heart in the War in Afghanistan  
 after his vehicle hit an improvised explosive  
 device, injuring him.  
 He  served  in  New  York’s  National  
 Guard  before  successfully  running  for  
 congress  in  2018,  narrowly  beating  Republican  
 incumbent  Congressman  Dan  
 Donovan. 
 Rose said that in his first two years in  
 federal office, he’s most proud of a bill he  
 co-sponsored that would permanently renew  
 funding  to  the  Victim’s  Compensation  
 Fund, which provides aid to victims  
 of the 9/11 attacks.  
 CONTROVERSIES 
 Malliotakis:  Her opponents have  
 slammed her for embracing President Trump  
 after saying she regretted voting for him during  
 her mayoral campaign in 2017, and waffl ing on  
 certain social issues, such as gay marriage. In  
 2011, Malliotakis voted against New York State’s  
 Marriage Equality act legalizing same-sex marriage  
 — a vote she says she now regrets. 
 “At the time, it wasn’t clear how it was going  
 to impact religious institutions, if they were  
 forced to perform marriages, and I wanted to  
 have clarity,” she told Brooklyn Paper. “In hindsight, 
  I would have changed the vote now, knowing  
 what I know that it doesn’t have an impact  
 on religious institutions.” 
 Rose:  Rose has always presented himself  
 as a moderate who refuses to toe the party  
 line, but throughout the campaign, Malliotakis  
 has slammed Rose’s left-leaning voting  
 record. Rose has voted in line with Speaker  
 Nancy Pelosi 96 percent of the time and with  
 President Trump just over seven percent of  
 the time. Some of the major votes Rose and the  
 president have disagreed on include bills that  
 would raise the federal minimum wage to $15  
 per hour and expand the Affordable Care Act.  
 (Rose voted for both.) 
 Rose, however, said that the raw percentages  
 don’t capture his ability to work across  
 the aisle.  
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