DEMOCRAT
Vivian Cook is a corrupt racist who tossed around the N-word, degraded a biracial employee and hired her own grandson for a low-show job.
Legislative aide Gail Palmer alleges that the ethically challenged and often-angry lawmaker would smash things on the floor while “frequently cursing at and excoriating” terrified staffers, who kept silent because they needed their jobs.
The 80-year-old DEMOCRAT often called her half a dozen employees “motherf- -kers” and would make bizarre racial proclamations including, “I’m feeling colored today,” or “I’m feeling n- - -erish,” according to court papers.
The veteran lawmaker, who is black, derided Palmer, whose mother is of African-American and white descent, as a “GeeChee” and “mulatto” after spotting a framed photo of the woman on Palmer’s desk, according to court papers.
“GeeChee” can refer to a coastal population of black people in the South with Creole origins but can also be derogatory slang for those with biracial backgrounds.
Palmer, 66, repeatedly begged Cook, to no avail, to stop using racial epithets. “This is my office, I can do whatever the hell I want,” Cook would say.
“It was degrading,” Palmer said. “She thought it was cute.”
Cook has skirted scandal for years.
A nonprofit she founded, the Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp., came under federal investigation after misspending public money, including more than $2.5 million from the Port Authority.
She used some of the cash to buy a vacant lot on Rockaway Boulevard, a few blocks from Cook’s district office. Cook said in 2015 that the money would go to pay off back taxes but provided few specifics.
The Port Authority joined a probe by the state Attorney General’s Office — separate from the federal probe — investigating the arrangement earlier this year.
Cook also serves as the Queens County DEMOCRAT Committee chair.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/15/ex-aide-claims-top-queens-democrat-spouted-racial-slurs-degraded-employees/
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