N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video
Source: New York Times
Matthew Haag 8 hrs ago
It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump associate who oversees federal housing programs in New York.
Ms. Patton told a leader of a tenants group at the New York City Housing Authority, the nations largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authoritys buildings, which have long been in poor repair.
Four tenants soon assembled in front of a video camera and were interviewed for more than four hours by Ms. Patton herself. Three of the tenants were never told that their interviews would be edited into a two-minute video clip that would air prominently on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention and be used to bash Mayor Bill de Blasio, the three tenants said in interviews on Friday.
I am not a Trump supporter, said one of the tenants, Claudia Perez. I am not a supporter of his racist policies on immigration. I am a first-generation Honduran. It was my people he was sending back.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Wheres the standard release signed by non-professional people who appear on-camera? The RNC is a bunch of intellectual property stealing grifters.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Conservatives are pulling all their little nastys out..
But they are just getting started.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)This crap of stealing and then being overturned by the courts...
So like past Kansas admins...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Creating a new normal and more division.