Representative Max Rose (D., N.Y.) is calling fellow Democrat Bill de Blasio “the worst mayor in the historical past of New York City” in a assortment of digital adverts released Wednesday.
The first-term Staten Island congressman is battling a shut flee for re-election in opposition to Republican train assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis in the 11th congressional district, which covers Staten Island and southern Brooklyn.
“Bill de Blasio is the worst mayor in the historical past of New York City,” Rose says in a six second video as he looks into the camera. “That’s the whole ad.”
In a single other 15-second ad he repeats the accusation and says, “That’s it guys. Severely. That’s the whole ad.”
Bill de Blasio is the worst Mayor in the historical past of New York City.
Exact pointing out the details in my most neatly-liked ad #NY11 pic.twitter.com/SHfBEix5l6
— Max Rose (@MaxRose4NY) September 9, 2020
A spokesman for de Blasio pushed support on Twitter, asking whether or no longer Rose “prefers Fernando Wood,” town’s 1850s-generation mayor who wished the train to secede right throughout the Civil War.
Rose has accused the mayor of failing to present a concrete conception to reopen colleges and of “actively attempting to extinguish” New York City drinking locations by prohibiting the reopening of indoor eating for months.
The congressman, who’s a militia old who served in Afghanistan and a member of the National Guard, criticized de Blasio as having “misplaced take care of watch over of the mission” after protesters and rioters looted town in the wake of the death of George Floyd and known as on the National Guard to enforce curfew.
Malliotakis ran in opposition to de Blasio for mayor in 2017 and though she misplaced, she garnered 70 p.c of the vote in conservative Staten Island. In 2018, Rose defeated dilapidated Representative Dan Donovan, a Republican, by right below 4 ingredients.
Malliotakis and the GOP have flee adverts attempting to join Rose to the mayor on rising crime and anti-police protests, moreover adverts blasting the congressman for vote casting to impeach President Trump.
The Malliotakis campaign expressed amusement with Rose’s efforts to separate himself from the Democratic mayor.
“It’s fun to see two a ways-left politicians love Max Rose and Bill de Blasio squabble over who’s worst. The inquire of Max Rose wants to respond to is if he joined the nearly about 70% of his constituents who voted for Nicole Malliotakis in the 2017 flee for mayor,” Malliotakis spokesman Choose Ryan told the New York Publish.
