Another questionable ‘first’ for House candidate Yuh-Line Niou

Manhattan Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou is once more claiming credit score for a state funding “first” that different pols delivered earlier than her, information present.

The marketing campaign web site for Niou, who's in search of the Democratic nod in Tuesday’s crowded tenth Congressional District main, boasts that she received “the first-ever state funding for public housing repairs.”

The progressive pol took workplace in 2017 representing Chinatown and Decrease Manhattan. She has stated she secured $250 million in state cash for NYCHA in 2018.

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou bragged about securing the “first-ever state funding for public housing repairs” on her marketing campaign web site.

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However that was three years after then-Assemblyman Keith Wright had allotted $100 million in state funds for housing authority repairs.

“It was the primary infusion of state cash, definitely, in a really very long time. In many years really,” Wright informed The Publish. “It’s one thing I’m really very, very pleased with.”

Wright, now the top of the New York County Democrats, stated he hadn’t seen Niou’s declare and couldn’t touch upon it.

The state funding, which was matched with metropolis cash, was introduced on the time by former Mayor de Blasio and different officers.

“I'm happy to work with Mayor de Blasio and members of the Meeting majority to put money into much-needed repairs for these NYCHA buildings,” Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie stated in 2015.

Niou has beforehand stated that previous to her 2016 election, no Asian-American group acquired state funding and that the time period was not even included within the state funds. However the phrase Asian American had appeared in most funds payments between 1997 and 2016, information present.

Quickly after being elected, she stated in an interview she was engaged on her first piece of laws requiring sure disclosures when a nursing residence closes. She launched the invoice, but it surely was merely a carbon copy of what had already been launched within the state Senate.

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou didn't acknowledged that previous politicians corresponding to former Assemblyman Keith Wright acquired funding for public housing renovations.

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Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou is locked in a decent race for the tenth Congressional district.

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Niou is relinquishing her Meeting seat in a bid to characterize the newly drawn tenth Congressional district that goes from Decrease Manhattan via brownstone Brooklyn. Her opponents embody Home impeachment lawyer Dan Goldman, Rep. Mondaire Jones, Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon and former Congresswoman and Brooklyn DA Elizabeth Holtzman.

A spokesman for Niou didn't instantly return requests for remark.