We certainly don’t need to send a representative to Washington who wants to be an “honorary member” of the “Squad.” To the contrary, the representative has to have the principles and convictions to stand against the Squad.
Mazi Pilip and Tom Suozzi are the candidates for the upcoming special election for NY CD3, to be held on Feb. 13.
During her relatively short tenure as a Nassau County Legislator, Mazi Pilip never made statements just for the sake of saying something. She is a focused and very smart lady.
Candidate Tom Suozzi, however, has made statements that are radically absurd.
Suozzi announced publicly that he wanted to become an “Honorary member of the Squad” (https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/tom-suozzi-once-asked-to-be-an-honorary-member-of-aocs-squad/ (https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/tom-suozzi-once-asked-to-be-an-honorary-member-of-aocs-squad/))
The Squad members, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, are venomous vilifiers of both America and Israel.
During a speech for CAIR, Omar trivialized the terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as “some people did something” (https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/09/11/9-11-victims-son-slams-u-s-rep-ilhan-omars-some-people-did-something-remark/amp/).
Omar and Talib and company are shamelessly advocating antisemitic tropes, and have been making antisemitism “acceptable” in America.
Mazi Pilip has clearly stated that should she get elected to Congress she would stand up against the Squad.
Vote Mazi and don’t vote for “Honorary Member of The Squad Wannabes.”
Leon Manoucheri
Great Neck,
This twisted narrative is a complete distortion. As has been explained numerous times (but which a few still don’t want to hear), the operative word in Suozzi’s statement is in boldface: “TODAY I want to be an honorary member of the squad”, a day when Donald Trump vilified those members and told them to “go back where they came from”, as disgusting a comment as we’ve ever heard from a president. Suozzi was showing justified but EXPLICITLY LIMITED support by standing up to Trump’s bigotry, in the same way that the entire world said “TODAY I am Charlie” after the brutal terrorist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo in France several years ago. Souzzi said he did NOT support the policies of those members and EVERYONE with any knowledge of current events understands the real meaning of his statement. It’s a shame to see this kind of pandering to ignorance and the lowest common denominator in Great Neck of all places, once a bastion of enlightenment and reason.
Robert,
His statement show his tendency, a freudian slip. He owns that and cannot walk away from it.
I highly doubt that you would ever say “I want to be an honorary member of the neo-Nazi.” Would you?