Presumptive Republican mayoral candidate has her eyes on Gracie Mansion
RACE FOR GRACIE Nicole Malliotakis: “I think New Yorkers have shown that they will cross party lines and support a Republican if it’s the right person and they are not happy with the current leadership”
N ew York mayor Bill de Blasio was widely ridiculed last week for jetting off to Germany to protest President Donald Trump just one day after a New York City police officer was shot dead execution style in the Bronx.
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis who is running against de Blasio in the November mayoral election tweeted a photoshopped image of the mayor wearing German lederhosen shorts with a sausage kraut schnitzel and beer adding: “While NYC’s subways crumble litter on streets pile up and the number of street homeless soars…”
Malliotakis who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn is the presumptive Republican mayoral nominee after Paul Massey — a millionaire real estate executive whom we profiled last month — withdrew from the race citing the high cost of running an effective campaign.
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