Diana Richardson represents the forty third Meeting district, together with Crown Heights, Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Paul Martinka
Brooklyn’s newly-elected Democratic Borough President Antonio Reynoso introduced Monday he’s tapped controversial Assemblywoman Diana Richardson to be his deputy.
Richardson (D-Crown Heights) will vacate her submit as an elected official in Albany to work on “addressing meals insecurity, lowering gun violence, and supporting Brooklyn’s Neighborhood Boards and guaranteeing they're reflective of the communities they serve,” based on Reynoso’s workplace.
“Very like Borough President Reynoso, I've devoted my life to serving the neighborhood that raised me right here in Brooklyn, and I’m honored to have the ability to proceed that service in Borough Corridor,” Richardson stated in a press release.
She represents the forty third Meeting district, together with Crown Heights, Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Richardson has sponsored 15 items of laws signed into legislation since her election to workplace in 2015.
“From tackling meals insecurity and gun violence in our communities to delivering historic tenant protections and prison justice reform, Diana has been on the frontlines combating for the form of progressive insurance policies that rework communities,” stated Reynoso in a press release.
However the left-leaning Richardson has been recognized to tangle with members of the Brooklyn Democrat’s institution faction.
She slammed the Brooklyn Democratic Get together Chair Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn earlier this fall, main requires her resignation following an intraparty spat between the county’s progressive members and Bichotte-Hermelyn loyalists.
Bichotte-Hermelyn congratulated Richardson by way of a spokeswoman on Monday.
“Rodneyse labored alongside Invoice Lipton, then-president of WFP, in 2015 and endorsed, supported and fundraised for Richardson for her first run for the Meeting and even previous to that, was one of many first to assist her in her race for District Chief,” stated the rep.
“She congratulates Richardson on her appointment as deputy borough president and desires her nicely in her future endeavors.”
Richardson’s Albany tenure has additionally been controversial.
She blew up on a Submit reporter when probed final July a few joint-appearance she held with disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo after beforehand calling for his resignation amid allegations of sexual harassment.
“I’m right here at this time with the governor as a result of politics is politics, enterprise is enterprise,” she fumed.
“In case you’re going to ask a query at this time, please stay on subject. We don’t need divisive questions.”
She additionally tangled with Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie in 2018, going ballistic throughout a Democratic caucus weekend and accusing him and his workers of mendacity to her a few $660,000 allocation to a pet venture for her district.
The speaker later reprimanded her in entrance of your complete convention, based on sources within the room.
Richardson’s additionally defended the corporal punishment of her son, after allegedly beating him with a broomstick in 2017.
One Meeting insider who requested anonymity quipped to The Submit: “Oh, boy. Is Reynoso going to pay for this.”
“Some Meeting members will probably be very pleased that she’s gone,” the official added.
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