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He is a self proclaimed communist, what more do we need to know?

He is not the only one.

As of today, the second most powerful job in the city, Speaker of the City Council, traditionally a check on the power of the Mayor, has gone to Melissa Mark-Viverito, amid reports of unusual strongarm techniques by Mayor de Blasio to get her the job.

One of the founders of the Progressive Caucus on the city council, Melissa Mark-Viverito’s entire career has been devoted to the hard left and International Communists.

She took a leadership role in efforts to release the “Cuban Five”, intelligence operatives of the Cuban Government who infiltrated the Cuban Exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

She actively lobbied for the pardon and release of the FALN terrorists responsible for the Faunce’s Tavern bombing – the largest terrorist attack in the USA before the Oklahoma City attack.

She was coordinator of the movement Todo Nueva York con Vieques (All New York with Vieques – to get the US Navy out of that Puerto Rican training area), and president of Mujeres del Barrio (Women of the Ghetto)

She had previously been a paid organizer for the hard left SEIU labor union, and a union paid for her trip to Ecuador in 2009 to help Marxist candidate Evo Morales in his recount effort to take power in that country.

She is a total Communist, and she was elected unanimously. No one dared to diverge from party discipline in the City Council today. The party seems firmly in the control of the Bolshevik wing.

They may spend a few more weeks consolidating power and packing operatives into top positions, but soon the disastrous policies will begin to emerge, and those who can will begin the flight of brains and capital out of the City. The political old guard got the message today – with party discipline that would fit right in, downtown in Pyongyang.

They will bankrupt the treasury, enrich their cronies, tax the productive, swell the welfare rolls, corrupt the justice system and compromise or completely destroy the anti-terrorist capabilities of the NYPD.

We have had such subversives in Government before, but now they are at the top of the ticket.