Heastie blocks G.N. resident

Bars Wiesenfeld from Twitter account

BY ROBERT PELAEZ

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie blocked Great Neck resident and former City University of New York Trustee Jefrey Wiesenfeld from his Twitter feed last year.

Wiesenfeld tweeted on Friday an image of a “blocked” notifcation he received when attempting to view Heastie’s Twitter page last week.

Wiesenfeld tweeted he would sue the Democratic speaker if he “had the time” and the legislator “had any public value” as former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind did to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“I could go after him as HIKIND did after AOC. But— who cares?” Wiesenfeld told the New York Post.

Eforts to reach a representative from Heastie’s ofce for comment were unavailing.

Wiesenfeld followed his announcement of being blocked by Heastie last year with a call to action for those on Twitter dissatisfed with the speaker and Senate Majority

Leader Andrea-Stewart Cousins.

“Dear Friends- Let us all work together to fnd a public-minded attorney who will give a bit of time to remind Carl Heastie that he cannot obviate free speech, nor can he falsely claim (as does Cousins) to care about minorities while enabling the marauders who victimize them,” Wiesenfeld tweeted Monday morning.

The Great Neck resident has also been critical of Heastie’s stance on the state’s bail laws, attributing them to a rise in crime in New York, according to the Post. Heastie previously said he felt “disrespected” by those accusations.

Heastie also told NY1 last year that the state Ofce of Court Administration and the state Division of Criminal Justice Services “said bail reform is not the reason why crime has increased.” tos.

Heastie has twice ignored questions from the Post’s Albany reporter, Zach Williams, in prior weeks, according to the Post.

“There are questions, I expect them to get answered,” McCarthy told CNN.

McCarthy previously told reporters that the Ethics Committee had launched an investigation into Santos before an aide for the speaker confrmed no investigation has begun.

A nonpartisan ad hoc group, Concerned Citizens of NY-03 sent out a press release expressing their support for the expulsion resolution on Thursday, saying that Santos is “unft to serve in Congress.”

“George Santos is a scourge to us, his constituents; he’s an embarrassment to the GOP, he’s a humiliation to long-time donors, and he’s turning the Republican Party into an international laughing stock,” the release said. “But worst of all, he’s distracting our leaders from conducting the country’s important business.”

Dozens of members of all ages from the group traveled to Washington D.C. from Roslyn Tuesday morning to call for McCarthy to oust Santos from the House. Once there, the residents fooded the hallways of the Capitol outside Santos’ ofce before joining Torres and Goldman, calling for him to be removed from ofce.

“The travesty of Santos’s presence in Congress is not politics as usual and cannot be treated as such,” the release continued. “And it leaves us, the citizens of NY-03, without meaningful representation in Congress.”

A resolution submitted by Town of North Hempstead Democratic Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey that also called for Santos’ expulsion from Congress was passed on Tuesday night by a 6-1 vote. North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena also presented a resolution for Santos to resign, which passed unanimously during the Tuesday meeting.

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