Max Rose vs. Nicole Malliotakis
A RED HOT RACE
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COURIER L 4 IFE, OCT. 23-29, 2020
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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