Nicole Malliotakis Remains Silent When Republicans Do the Wrong Thing
Immediately after Democrat, Shelly Silver was sentenced, Malliotakis raced to Twitter and Facebook to post about it.
The following day, she quoted Teddy Roosefelt and tried to sound like she has always been against corruption and politicians who do the wrong thing. Yet why hasn’t Nicole Malliotakis spoke out against Dean Skelos’ corruption? Is she afraid to speak out and upset the Republican Party? What would cause her to remain silent once again?
This is not the first time Nicole Malliotakis has remained silent when a Republican has done the wrong thing in Brooklyn or Albany.
- When Michael Grimm ran for for office with a a 20 count federal indictment , Nicole Malliotakis still stood by his side. The following month. Grimm made a plea deal and then wouldn’t leave office. During the election, Grimm told us he was not guilty on any of these charges and right after winning he admitted his guilt. Did Malliotakis speak up and say anything to the newspapers or online? NOPE she sat in silence. Not all Republicans supported Grimm, yet the ones in our area didn’t speak out against this. In fact, Dan Donovan admitted to voting for Grimm and Senator Golden fundraised for Grimm. Thankfully Jon Boehner had a meeting with Grimm and Grimm resigned. Grimm was sentenced to 8 months in prison and is sitting in a cell this Christmas because he is a criminal.
Malliotakis looked happy to be standing next to the 20 count indicted Congressman.
The special election to replace Grimm (and another assemblyman who stepped down to take another position) cost NYC over a million dollars. There was talk about a special election being needed for months before the election!
- When Marty Golden and Assemblyman Keith Wright (backed by Shelly Silver) introduced a bill to get huge tax breaks for developers in Manhattan under the 421-a tax abatement program, Nicole Malliotakis remained silent. She did not publically object to the fact that Golden’s bill would give five luxury housing developments a tax break that they were not eligible for. One57 and the “billionaire’s tower” on West 57th Street were included
Here is Golden’s bill in the Senate S2320 (also here) and Keith Wright’s Bill (co-sponsor: Shelly Silver) Assembly A3354
Here is Nicole Malliotakis’ vote in favor of tax breaks for the five luxury housing developments.
Malliotakis didn’t speak out about it, but did she have to vote with them?
After the bill passed, Keith Wright claimed he had no idea what Shelly Silver put in the bill. Wright said he was instructed by Silver.
Why didn’t Nicole Malliotakis didn’t know what was going on? Didn’t she see Shelly Silver’s name as the co-sponsor? She knew this was the type of bill Shelly Silver was behind because she had seen it before in 2011. In 2011, Vito Lopez introduced bill A8518 (co-sponsored by Shelly Silver) and Dean Skelos carried the bill S5856 in the senate. NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS VOTED IN FAVOR OF IT.
Vito Lopez died in November 2015, if you don’t have info on him, you can catch up on him here: Background about Vito Lopez here
Whenever you see something written about Nicole Malliotakis in the newspaper, it always contains a part of her bio that says: “her mother is a Cuban exile of the Castro dictatorship.” Malliotakis’ mother lived in a time when people were forced to be silent under Castro. Yet, there is no reason for Nicole Malliotakis to remain silent when Republicans are involved in corruption! She is not serving the people of Staten Island or Bay Ridge well. Who is her silence benefiting?
If Malliotakis wants to talk about corruption – then let’s discuss all of the corruption, not just that from one party. Because if we are only discussing the problems in one party, are we really weeding out corruption? If Malliotakis wants to be a corruption buster, she’s going to have to produce a real bill which puts term limits on the Assembly and Senate.
Hugs,
marlene
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