Laurie Cumbo, a former Brooklyn Councilmember with a history of polarizing comments, is set to become the city’s next commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs. Her hiring adds to a growing list of controversial picks made by Mayor Adams.
Adams has defended his choices, saying that people are capable of changing and learning from their mistakes.
Late last year, Cumbo voted against a bill to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, arguing in a statement she posted on Medium that the prospect of 800,000 to 1,000,000 eligible new voters threatened to ““As an African American woman, knowing the history of what Blacks went through to create the right to vote for all people, yes, it is difficult for me to sit back in silence and watch other oppressed people utilize that precious right to vote and partner with those who have openly...
Cumbo hasn't apologized for her anti-immigrant, anti-Latino comments. Instead, she doubled down on them & for that she's being entrusted as NYC's cultural ambassador. Yet another affront to the Latino community.
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