{"id":519342,"date":"2026-01-16T02:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519342\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:37:27","slug":"menin-slashes-vickie-paladinos-nyc-council-assignments-due-to-abhorrent-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519342\/","title":{"rendered":"Menin slashes Vickie Paladino’s NYC Council assignments due to ‘abhorrent’ posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council Speaker Julie Menin is only letting Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino<\/a> serve on two committees this session due to her \u201cabhorrent\u201d social media posts about Muslims and other minorities.<\/p>\n

Paladino, one of the Council\u2019s most far-right Republicans, is only going to serve as a member of the Council\u2019s committees on Veterans and on Fire and Emergency Management, according to new assignments released Thursday. That\u2019s a significant downgrade from the seven committees Paladino served on last year.<\/p>\n

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Menin said she\u2019s restricting Paladino\u2019s responsibilities to the Fire and Veterans panels specifically because of offensive posts she has made on X, including one last month that called for the \u201cexpulsion of Muslims from Western nations.\u201d Menin noted that Paladino has also been referred to the Council\u2019s Ethics Committee, which is investigating her<\/a> over the missives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are numerous, numerous, too many to\u00a0count content on her social media that is abhorrent and is unacceptable, and so I made that decision about the committees with that in mind because we are not going to tolerate that kind of conduct and that kind of divisiveness within the body,\u201d the speaker said.<\/p>\n

Paladino, who represents Whitestone and other eastern Queens neighborhoods, didn\u2019t immediately return a request for response to Menin\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

Paladino has faced committee reprimands before over her rhetoric. In 2023, she was removed from the Council\u2019s Health Committee<\/a> after she claimed Drag Queen Story Hour events in New York City amount to \u201cchild grooming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides demoting Paladino, Menin on Thursday announced new makeups for all of the Council\u2019s 36 committees and four subcommittees.<\/p>\n

Many political allies who backed her successful bid for speaker ended up securing some of the chamber\u2019s most prominent committee chairperson posts, including Education, Public Safety and Transportation, as first reported<\/a> by the Daily News late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Menin, a moderate Upper East Side Democrat, is seen as likely to be a centrist check on Mayor Mamdani\u2019s administration. Many of the members she selected for top committee chairs and spots on her leadership team did not endorse the democratic socialist mayor\u2019s campaign last year.<\/p>\n

Talking to reporters, Menin disputed the notion that there were ideological motivations behind her committee picks. Rather, she said she made them guided by a need to restore trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about ideology. Again, it\u2019s about trying to restore faith in city government, which I think honestly after the last few years hit an all-time low around corruption, around fraud, around waste, around abuse,\u201d Menin said, referring to corruption scandals that unfolded during ex-Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration. \u201cWe\u2019re going to reform that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council Speaker Julie Menin is only letting Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino serve on two committees this session due…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,1370,728,405,403,5294,5296,8989,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-519342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-county","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-new-york-politics","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115902457142415853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}