(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) At a recent town hall meeting regarding rental prices that took place in New York City’s Washington Heights, Democrat Mayor Eric Adams railed against an elderly woman who disagreed with him, calling her a “plantation owner.”
As it turns out, the woman he rebuked in front of a large audience for her allegedly racist demeanor is a Jew who fled Nazi Germany, Red State reported.
Adams reportedly was triggered by the elderly woman, 84-year-old Jeanie Dubnau–an assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University–first rebuking her for her lack of respect for him. In this case, that meant disagreeing with his administration’s proposal to let landlords increase rent by up to 6% on rent-stablized apartments.
“First, if you’re going to ask a question, don’t point at me and don’t be disrespectful to me,” Adams whined. “I’m the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect that would deserve to be treated. I’m speaking to you as an adult.”
But the leftist Democrat saved his most shocking insult for last: “don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own,” Adams lectured.
Dubnau is also a “tenant advocate,” meaning that she opposes both landlords and rent increases. According to Dubnau, Adams’s response was an attempt to avoid and not answer her questions.
“He didn’t have an answer,” she said. “That was just a deflection, that’s all, because he doesn’t have any answers.”
Even though Adams tried to argue that he personally does not raise rent on his own tenants, Dubnau argued that his public policy is destructive.
“Who cares about his own personal tenants? He’s raising the rents on thousands and thousands of people in New York City.”
Dubnau said Wednesday’s meeting proved that Adams is “an enemy of all the rent-stabilized tenants” in New York City.
She also called the mayor “a landlord stooge” who “gets millions of dollars from real estate.”
