Challenger Accuses Queens Democratic Council Incumbent Of Colluding With Republicans
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Juan Ardila, a challenge in the Democratic primary race for the 30th Council District seat in Queens, is claiming that incumbent Robert Holden plans to pull the same trick he used to win in 2017: running on the Republican line as a Democrat for the November election, thanks to an old state law in the books.
Ardila says that the current Democratic council member will once again be placed on the Republican line for a second term should he lose the June 22nd primary. He claims that the Republicans in the district are coalescing around Holden because he s the best shot in representing their interests.
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“We’ve got to stop this cancel culture. What they’re doing to Columbus is a slap in the face to Italian-Americans,” John Fratta, chapter leader of the Commission of Social Justice/Sons and Daughters of Italy, as well as a business promotion coordinator at Community Board 11 in the Bronx, said.
As Changing America previously reported, the city’s education board renamed Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples’ Day on May 4. City officials like Councilman Mark Treyger (D), Rep. Tom Suozzi (D), Assembly Education Committee Chairman Michael Benedetto (D) and Councilman Robert Holden (D), all of whom are Italian descendants, say they were blindsided by the Department of Education’s (DOE) move.
Veterans Blast De Blasio for Blocking Memorial Day Parade, Allowing Cannabis Parade
Veterans in New York City have expressed anger after NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio blocked a permit for Staten Island’s 102nd annual Memorial Day parade. The news comes just over a week after de Blasio permitted demonstrators to march in the Cannabis Parade on May 1.
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The powers that be in Hollywood announced Sunday that Pepé Le Pew, the controversial French skunk from
Looney Tunes, will no longer appear in the long-awaited
Space Jam sequel due to the animated character s longstanding history of sexually inappropriate behavior involving other cartoon characters.
Le Pew, who appeared in the original
Space Jam film alongside Michael Jordan, was supposed to appear in an empowering scene with actress Greice Santo. When the skunk begins to kiss Santo s arm at a bar, she reacts by pulling away and slamming him into a chair.