PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
WARNING!
COURIER L 12 IFE, JAN. 29-FEB. 4, 2021
DEMS IN
DISARRAY
(AGAIN)
Politicos boycott party’s forum, citing
bigotted remarks from Dem insider
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A group of local politicos launched a
boycott of the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s
upcoming 2021 elections forum, reiterating
their demands for Marine Park
District Leader Lori Maslow to resign
over her xenophobic comments against
Chinese and Palestinian people.
“From the poisonous legacy of the
Trump era, we understand all too
well the impact of hate-fi lled rhetoric.
Words matter, especially from our local
representatives,” wrote the district
leaders and county committee
members in an open letter published
Jan. 25. “The Brooklyn Democratic
Party cannot continue with business
as usual, hosting a candidate forum,
while Leader Maslow and Chair
Rodneyse Bichotte remain silent
on Leader Maslow’s future with the
Brooklyn Democratic Party.”
The reform-oriented Democrats
called on party honchos to urge Maslow
to resign from her position, and for
leaders to publicly release a plan on
how they will improve relations with
the groups offended by Maslow’s “disturbing
rhetoric.”
The letter was published by freshman
district leaders Shaquana Boykin,
Samy Nemir Olivares, Julio Peña, and
Jesse Pierce, and gained almost two
dozen signatures from county committee
members as of Monday morning.
The Monday missive already
caused four progressive mayoral hopefuls
— non-profi t executive Dianne Morales,
Sunset Park Councilman Carlos
Menchaca, entrepreneur and former
presidential candidate Andrew Yang,
and Comptroller Scott Stringer — to
bow out of the virtual symposium,
which is set be hosted by NY1 anchor
Errol Louis and will present candidates
for the city’s top offi ce, along
with those vying for comptroller and
Brooklyn borough president.
“I have expressed my concerns about
this previously. I continue to stand with
the community in calling for accountability,”
tweeted Morales. “I will not be
participating in the @bkdems forum
until these demands are met. Racism
and hate can not be tolerated.”
Said Yang spokesman Jake Sporn:
“While Andrew is eager to participate
in candidate forums across the city,
Ms Maslow’s unacceptable and offensive
hate speech go against everything
he and this campaign stand for.”
Stringer tweeted from his campaign
account on Jan. 26: “We cannot
equivocate with hate.”
Maslow, a former Republican who
now serves as the Democratic female
district leader in the 41st Assembly
District, drew heat when she tweeted
that she couldn’t “even look at Chinese
food,” in reference to a New York
Times story about Chinese tariffs.
Bichotte condemned the statements,
and Maslow soon resigned from
her largely-symbolic sixth vice chair
position of the party, saying she would
undergo “racial justice training.” But
the southern Brooklynite declined to
step down from her district leadership
role, an unpaid elected position that
gives her power to vote on the party’s
42-member executive committee.
The comments spurred online
sleuths to dig up more of Maslow’s
tweets from the past years, including
one citing the Bible implying that Palestinians
would be wiped “off the face
of the earth,” as well as several insults
she lobbed at a Palestinian-American
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
A spokeswoman for Bichotte stressed
the importance of giving Brooklynites
a chance to hear from the candidates
and slammed the authors of the letter
as “opportunists,” adding that it is up
to Maslow’s constituents in the 41st Assembly
District to chose their reps.
“The people of Brooklyn want a debate.
They need to know where the candidates
stand on important issues in
this election, which will determine our
city’s recovery from the pandemic,”
said Sabrina Rezzy in an email. “The
people will also decide who represents
them in the 41st AD. Unfortunately, opportunists
are trying to equate those
two unrelated issues to advance their
own agenda at the expense of the people
of Brooklyn.”
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Figure 2:
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