With the United Nations in town, global politics are turning into an issue in the mayoral race.
Bill de Blasio, Joe Lhota and Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion appear to share the same position on Iran and its nuclear potential but the similarities end there.
After a joint news conference Monday, Lhota and Carrion took shots at the frontrunner.
Their criticisms come in the wake of a New York Times article focusing on de Blasio’s time as a young activist in Nicaragua as well as a trip to Cuba.
“I believe actions taken like the Sandanistas – who were fighting Americans as well as Capitalism – was absolutely not the right thing to do, especially during the Cold War. Going to Cuba illegally is never a good thing,” Lhota said.
“Find it odd, find it interesting, that he went to Canada and then to Cuba – sort of a circuitous route. And, what was he there for? It’s a question New Yorkers should be interested in,” Carrion said.
Responding later in the afternoon, de Blasio dismissed the attacks as political mudslinging.
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