Police Union Head Trying to Keep DNC Out of Brooklyn Is a Republican

[hrmjustin]

Ross Barkan

A prominent police union president infuriated Mayor Bill de Blasio this week when he urged Democrats to keep the Democratic National Convention out of Brooklyn.

That president, it turns out, is a registered Republican.

Edward Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, is a Republican who lives in Port Washington, Long Island, a Nassau County Board of Elections spokesman confirmed to the Observer. In a letter published in the New York Times and New York Post on Tuesday, Mr. Mullins blasted Mr. de Blasio’s DNC bid, arguing that the city was now too dangerous to host the 2016 convention and the mayor did not support police enough.



Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/police-union-head-trying-to-keep-dnc-out-of-brooklyn-is-a-republican/#ixzz3Bhdbi9gz