Day: January 29, 2021

Brooklyn district leader resigns after backlash to anti-China comments

Lori Maslow, an elected district leader and ex-vice chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, resigned from office Thursday after several mayoral candidates threatened to boycott a Sunday forum the county party was sponsoring over her anti-Asian comments. Maslow wrote “I can’t even look at Chinese food” during an anti-China social media rant on Twitter last