Free Kids Day in Staten Island today!

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Free Family Fair in Bensonhurst Today!

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Nicole Malliotakis Has a Problem With Presenting Statistics

Nicole Malliotakis thinks that people actually care about how the Mayor eats his pizza. This was on the front page of her website:

It points to her tweet:

Only idiots care how the mayor eats his pizza.

Nicole Malliotakis has been having problems presenting statistics to the public. On her website she wrote:

Of course that isn’t true. Malliotakis ran unchallenged in 2016, but that doesn’t mean that 100% of the people voted for her – 11,000 people didn’t vote for her.   LOL.  This article was kind to her in stating people didn’t vote for her because they were just voting for the President in November. 

The news highlighted Malliotakis problem with statistics last week as well.

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Paint Coney Island

Pinot’s Palette has painting class from 7-10 pm on Saturday, May 20th

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Pastor Khader El-Yateem’s Endorsement – Hey Cronyism Nice to Meet Ya!

Kings County Politics ran this story while our local newspapers haven’t even mentioned the topic. But the topic is important. This was the headline of the story:

The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) endorsed El-Yateem without even interviewing any of the candidates.  I looked up the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and followed the money to the NYC Council. The Council had given the NYIC 200K. So basically our tax money is being used against our community. On the NYIC site,  I wasn’t surprised when I found Murad Awawdeh name.   Murad is supporting El-Yateem campaign for councilman.  

Reverend Khader El-Yateem should be embarrassed to accept an endorsement from a group which didn’t treat the other candidates fairly. Today, we should have seen El-Yateem  issue a statement declining the endorsement, but instead  he was silent.  EVERYONE KNOWS when someone doesn’t do the right thing, you need to speak up. If the group had given another candidate the endorsement and didn’t interview El-Yateem, you would hear El-Yateem crying foul.  

Over the weekend, Murad asked me why I said  that El-Yateem was silent.  Murad pretended not know much about the situation. At one point, he tried to deflect the situation and say it happened in Sunset Park. Everyone in Bay Ridge knew that the situation overflowed into our area. El-Yateem has claimed several times that he is a peacemaker, but El-Yateem was silent and not a leader in the community who brought anyone together.  

Murad told me that I just brought up the incident from this Summer  NOW because El-Yateem was running for office. Again, Murad mispoke. I’ve been speaking about it since it happened. Initially on Twitter, then in my blog in July here and here.  I even spoke about it to Reverend El-Yateem’s staffer, Kayla Santosuosso.  I provided Kayla my full name and my background. I majored in History with a focus on Middle Eastern History and I worked for an anthropologist named Daisy Hilse Dwyer. Dwyer is the author of several books on Islam and the Middle East.  This Summer, Kayla organized an event at the Salem Church after the incident in Sunset Park which NO ONE spoke about in our community. The event was advertised with a few speakers names, but the organizers names were not on it. Kayla told me that the pastor did not have anything to do with the event. I contacted the Brooklyn Historical Society because a speaker was from there and they didn’t know he was speaking in Bay Ridge or that an incident had happened in Sunset Park and that no Arabic leader spoke about it in our community. (See more here) 

The Post had an article about the Arab American Association in Bay Ridge. The article states that  Arab American Association hosted events for the  Muslim Democratic Club which would be an ethics violation. El-Yateem is the treasurer of the Arab American Association and  Murad is the president of the Muslim Democratic Club. I asked Murad about The Post article and he wasn’t able to say the truth. Murad would not speak about the topic.  On Twitter, El-Yateem was named in these messages and he chose to be silent.  If the paper printed a lie, everyone would have had a lot to say. 

Murad tried to tell me over Twitter that since I didn’t support Pam Harris and El-Yateem,  I had a problem with race. El-Yateem received all of these messages and STAYED SILENT. He could not speak up even when he saw his friend was not speaking the truth. And Pam Harris was well supported in her first election (we voted for her), but not the second (she lost in Bay Ridge).  When Pam Harris messes up and is removed from office for corruption, then we will see what Murad has to say.

Maybe El-Yateem is a leader and peacemaker in his church but I haven’t seen him leader im our community.   Bay Ridge don’t need any more politicians who pump themselves up and do barely anything. El-Yateem kept boasting about the Bay Ridge Unity Task Force and it’s simply not a task force. A group that meets once a year and eats breakfast isn’t going to solve the problems of a community where men think it’s okay to pull the race card to gain an advantage when someone doesn’t agree with them.  It’s an easy thing to do, but a real conversation can’t happen. 

Ironically, Murad is quoted  saying this about immigrants:

It’s good advice. Yet Murad wasn’t interested in understanding anything about his neighbor.  I had contacted in September when his club endorsed Pam Harris in our community. Murad ignored both messages sent to him on Twitter one and two  and this weekend, he told me “he didn’t see them.”  (Then Murad told me that I shouldn’t contact Harris for help, I should have contacted the Board of Elections. WE DID and when we couldn’t get any help we contacted Harris.)

Those who are silent or try to silence others aren’t leaders in our community. Leaders are people who aren’t afraid to speak the truth, even if the truth isn’t politically correct or “picture perfect.”

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Carroll Says Malliotakis Will Lose Mayoral Election

Robert Carroll is a newly elected member to the NY Assembly. He represents the people in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Carroll went on The Brooklyn Paper Radio show and predicted Malliotakis will get under 25 percent of the vote. LOL!

Clearly, Carroll is clever and witty, but he also used the radio time to point out the problem of undocumented workers.

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Luna Park Has Free Rides for Students with Good Grades

Students can bring their report cards to Luna Park in Coney Island and get ride credits.

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Three Democrat Challengers to Donovan

Dan Donovan better light a fire under his seat and do a better job for his district. He has three Democratic Challengers already and the election isn’t until November 2018.

Zach Emig, 40 lives in Tompkinsville. Emig is a bond trader. He seems very serious about the position and he’s doing a good job putting the word out about his campaign. Let’s see how he will recognize Bay Ridge as an important part of his district.

Michael DeVito Jr. – lives in Westerleigh. DeVito was a Marine sergeant.

Boyd Melson, 35 was an independent, but is now a Democrat. He’s a retired boxer, works in health care sale and teaches fitness classes

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Nancy Tong – The Revenge Candidate Doesn’t Know Bay Ridge

Nancy Tong spoke at Lobo Loco and showed she knew very little about Bay Ridge, it’s problems and people.

Nancy Tong doesn’t live in our area. She lives in Mark Treyger’s district, so she should be running against Treyger. When asked why she was running for office in our area, she played politics and had an attitude too. Tong is the revenge candidate and carpetbagger of this election.

I have never seen Nancy Tong do anything in our area or even attend any of the events in Bay Ridge. Also,  I don’t know anyone she has helped. I’ve only seen her as the silent sidekick to Bill Colton in a few pictures. 

Tong worked part time for eight years for Assemblyman Colton. Colton doesn’t represent our district, but he and Treyger are playing games (more about that here).  

Tong spoke in general terms and didn’t mention Bay Ridge throughout her speech. She said the problems are the same in every district.  

When asked how she would reach out to the Arabic/Muslim community in Bay Ridge, she said, “we have those kind of people in our office….I’m friends with them. How will I reach out to them, I haven’t thought about it.”  REALLY? Didn’t Tong do any research on Bay Ridge?

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Bay Ridge Statistics

Sometimes you just know that statistics aren’t correct. I think there is more than fourteen percent of the population over 65 in Bay Ridge. In small print on the document, it says this info was 2013 US Census. Maybe a lot of residents skipped the census. 

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Parents Need Help with Graduation Requirements for Their Child

Sometimes students in high schools in NYC haven’t been advised by their guidance counselor about the requirements for graduation. This causes fear and anxiety, especially if the student is learning disabled. 

So when they fail a regents, parents become concerned because some exams are necessary for graduation. 

Yet, if you child has a learn disability like dyslexia, ADHA or a language disorder, they may have different requiements for graduation. Sometimes students who are in a self-contained classroom are aware of these requirements for graduation.  Some students can be given a Superintendent’s waiver for certain situations.

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Stabbing at 4 am in Bay Ridge on 5/14/17

Twenty-nine year old man leaving a Mexican restaurant on 3rd Avenue was stabbed by a 30 year old man who fled in a white suv.  Story here

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