Domenic Recchia and Michael Grimm Clash Repeatedly in First Televised Debate
Jillian Jorgensen
t took all of four-and-a-half minutes for the two men vying to represent Staten Island and part of Brooklyn in Congress to start shouting at each other.
Congressman Michael Grimm, the Republican incumbent, said the Centers for Disease Control should have been better prepared for the spread of Ebola to the United States. His challenger, Democrat Domenic Recchia Jr., a former Brooklyn councilman, said that was Mr. Grimm’s fault, accusing him of cutting funding for hospital preparedness.
“That is simply not true,” Mr. Grimm responded during the WABC television debate filmed this afternoon.
“OK, you know what, you lied to the FBI, you lied to the U.S. attorney’s office,” Mr. Recchia began, kicking off the first of several verbal skirmishes in the 30 minute face-off.
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This picture is from a local debate here in the district but you can see Grimm is creepy.
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They're both dolts. That look Grimm is giving him looks like he wants to push him over a balcony and break him like a little boy. 