If you think that the rotten political culture in New York City ends with its dirty left-wing mayor, think again.
As the city prepares to host the 57th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito appeared at an event today in support of one of the parade's more controversial honorees: Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Joe Connor said it was “disgraceful” that Mark-Viverito supported a parole bid for FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera.
“I would like to ask her how she could possibly expect to have the second-most important position in our city, while advocating for a terrorist whose group attacked and murdered New Yorkers,”
Connor said. Connor’s dad, Frank, was among four people killed in the 1975 lunchtime bombing by the Puerto Rican separatist group.
Also she refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
A top contender for New York City Council speaker declined to say the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of meetings until she began getting serious about her candidacy this fall, according to a colleague.
Melissa Mark-Viverito stood but stayed silent during the Pledge because of her opposition to U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Queens Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz said.
“When I met with her months ago, I asked her why she didn’t pledge to the flag,” Koslowitz said. “She told me she wanted Puerto Rico to be independent.”
So now this creature has tried to extend her 15 minutes with a Trump Tower press conference.
“Donald Trump’s attacks on Judge Curiel are racist. He is quite literally saying Judge Curiel can’t do his job because of his ethnicity,” she said on the sidewalk in front of Trump Tower, echoing a line of questioning that CNN’s Jake Tapper pursued in an interview with Trump on Friday. “That is the definition of racism. It’s gross, it’s vile and it is not normal behavior for anyone, let alone someone running to be president of the United States.”
In Viverito's world, you can support terrorists who help murder Americans and still serve in a top political position in the city hit hardest by terrorism.