by Aaron Simon
New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney will host a post-election town hall with her constituents of NY’s 12th Congressional District (including Greenpoint) tonight (11/19) from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., at Bushwick Inlet Park’s community room (86 Kent Ave.).
NY’s 12th Congressional District includes Greenpoint, and parts of Bushwick and Williamsburg, and the district stretches into the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Astoria, Queens.
Rep. Maloney…
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Congresswomen, how about stop playing identity politics on put all your citizens on an equal footing. Your type of politics along with Hillary help elect the ego maniac demagogue Trump. Step away from your identity obsession and give equal billing to lousy transit, sky rocketing rents, universal health care, infrastructure, homelessness and other citizens in your district etc. etc.
You can start by finding the money to restart the Pete McG. senior center kitchen that you promise to do and then disappeared.
Congresswoman, people, male or female hate identity politics.