‘Listen, We’re Not Building No Low-Income Housing:’ Recchia Reacts to GOP Email

[hrmjustin]

Ross Barkan

Domenic Recchia wasn’t exactly furious after the Staten Island Republican Party accused him of pandering to the Brooklyn housing project vote.

Mr. Recchia, a Democrat running to unseat Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, said today he would not build any low-income housing in the right-leaning borough after an official in the Staten Island GOP said he would.

“Listen, we’re not building no low-income housing. I am gonna represent all the people in this district. I’m gonna represent everyone from the south shore to the north shore of Staten Island and to all of Brooklyn,” Mr. Recchia told the Observer. “The congressman has to represent everyone and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to be a congressman for all the people.”



Read more at http://observer.com/2014/07/listen-were-not-building-no-low-income-housing-recchia-reacts-to-gop-email/#ixzz37TkVgVcm

[SummerSnow]

1. They have only ten NYCHA projects in Staten Island.

Compared to the other boroughs that a drop in the bucket. But Staten Island is small.

[hrmjustin]

2. SI has a small population.