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The raucous victory party for congressional giant-killer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez featured a who’s who of progressive New York politics, including actor-turned-gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. It also included a man who has run for office on the platform of fighting “greedy Jewish landlords.” Notice the guy behind her, in the purple shirt? It’s Thomas Lopez-Pierre, Mark Levine’s…
Thomas Lopez-Pierre, the New York City Council candidate whose campaign focused around a condemnation of “greedy Jewish landlords,” lost in yesterday’s Democratic primary — but took a quarter of the vote on the way. A longtime political provocateur with a years-long history of outrageous and offensive remarks, Lopez-Pierre aimed to unseat incumbent Mark Levine, who…
In a series of tweets, activist Linda Sarsour rejected offers of support from Thomas Lopez-Pierre, the fringe New York City Council candidate who has drawn outsized media attention with attacks on “greedy Jewish landlords.” Sarsour, who is fighting off an effort by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind to force the City University of New…
Two years ago, Thomas Lopez-Pierre promised uptown Manhattan’s political insiders that he was going to quit being so outrageously offensive. The longtime gadfly, who once called a New York State Assemblywoman a “$20 political slut,” was convincing enough in his vow to reform that he drew a donation from a prominent uptown Democrat who had…
