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hrmjustin

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Wed Jul 9, 2014, 02:23 PM Jul 2014

Domenic Recchia Lashes Out at ‘Bully’ Michael Grimm on NY1

Ross Barkan

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Domenic Recchia wants Congressman Michael Grimm to lose the bully pulpit.

The Democrat and former Brooklyn councilman railed against the Republican incumbent on NY1 last night, repeatedly accusing him of being a bully.

“We have a problem with bullying on the social media, alright, we have to address this and here you turn on the t.v. and you see our congressman bullying a reporter? That’s unacceptable, we deserve better,” Mr. Recchia told host Errol Louis.

Mr. Grimm in January threatened to throw Michael Scotto, a NY1 reporter, off a balcony after he asked him about an ongoing federal investigation into Mr. Grimm’s fund-raising. In April, Mr. Grimm was indicted on a slew of federal charges related to the operation of a restaurant he owned before he was elected to Congress in 2010.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/07/domenic-recchia-lashes-out-at-bully-michael-grimm-on-ny1/#ixzz36zsKAr6n

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