The silence from Remauro’s enablers is deafening (opinion)
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
Leticia Remauro leads the ceremonies as Nicole Malliotakis hosts a thank-you brunch for those who supported her mayoral run Sunday, January 21, 2018 at the Excelsior Grand. (Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons)
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By Justin Wood and Roxanne Mustafa
It’s been more than a month since the citywide media briefly focused on Leticia Remauro, the candidate for Staten Island Borough President caught on camera enthusiastically yelling “Heil Hitler” at a rally in December. She went on to apologize on Twitter for making a “bad analogy” and explained to the Daily News that she actually meant to yell “Mein Fuhrer.”
In First Mayoral Debate, Maya Wiley Presses Andrew Yang On Nondisclosure Agreements
arrow Mayoral candidates take part in a Brooklyn Democratic County Committee debate. screenshot
In what was the sharpest jab of the first mayoral debate of the season, Maya Wiley took Andrew Yang to task on Sunday over reports that his campaign had used confidentiality agreements and cultivated a culture that was described as demeaning to women.
“As a civil rights lawyer, I was shocked to hear that you have a nondisclosure agreement, that sounds very Trumpian,” Wiley said to Yang. Will you commit to allowing your campaign staff to complain publicly about workplace misconduct?”
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The race for New York City mayor took a couple of turns this week, with Zach Iscol exiting to launch a bid for city comptroller and “Real Housewives of New York City” star Barbara Kavovit hopping in to take his place. And some of the Brooklyn political dysfunction seeped into the race as well. Several candidates, including Dianne Morales, Andrew Yang, Maya Wiley and Scott Stringer, said they would boycott the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s upcoming mayoral forum over racist comments that District Leader Lori Maslow made on social media. Although she had already stepped down from her party leadership position, some progressive members of the party wanted her to resign as district leader and called for the boycott until she did. After several days, Maslow resigned, and as of now, at least Yang is once once again taking part in the forum. Keep reading for the rest of this week’s news.
District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event in December.
Southern Brooklyn Democrat Lori Maslow resigned from her District Leader position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Thursday, after weeks of intense criticism over a series of racist tweets threatened to derail the party’s election forum.
Maslow, whose 41st Assembly District includes parts of Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Flatlands, announced her resignation in a letter sent to county party leadership on Thursday evening. In the letter, which was shared by the party’s official Twitter account, Maslow accused her critics of “online harassment and vilification” as they pushed to hold her accountable for anti-Chinese and anti-Palestinian statements.
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