NY-15: Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. under fire for alleged elections violations

[RandySF]

City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. — the frontrunner in the race for Rep. Jose Serrano’s South Bronx congressional seat — allegedly ran afoul of election law, a new complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission reveals.

The complaint, filed June 10 by the anti-Diaz political action committee Bronx United, accuses Diaz Sr. of knowingly accepting “illegal corporate contributions” in violation of federal law.

It alleges that Diaz Sr. helped distribute food donated to the city’s five borough presidents by Fresh Direct outside his Council district and to advance his Congressional run.
Diaz Sr.'s son is Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

The elder Diaz hasn’t been shy about advertising his coronavirus outreach on social media and through email.

In three posts from his Twitter account between May 8 and June 5, Diaz Sr. is pictured giving out boxes of food in the City Council district of Council members Rafael Salamanca and Diana Ayala. According to the complaint, those giveaways also took place within the 15th Congressional district, which Diaz Sr. hopes to win in the upcoming June 23 Democratic primary.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-ruben-diaz-sr-bronx-congressional-seat-20200615-rh5tcem765ewvihyarqqd3foru-story.html?outputType=amp

[FreeState]

1. Ruben Diaz Sr. is a bigot

He is undeserving of any office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nyc-lawmaker-says-city-council-controlled-homosexual-community-n970016

In a Spanish-language radio program, Diaz, who is a Pentecostal minister, said the homosexual community controls most of the 51 council members. Diaz, 75, a Puerto Rican-born politician who opposes same-sex marriage, called Johnson a “homosexual married to another man.” The speaker is openly gay and single.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/25/top-lgbt-leader-tries-to-stop-rev-ruben-diaz-sr-s-bid-for-congress/

The head of the nation’s top LGBT rights group is trying to stop conservative Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. — a Bronx councilman known for his anti-gay stances — from getting elected to Congress.

“We have a known homophobe who is running for Congress who doesn’t represent the values of New York voters. He has a history of anti-LGBT rhetoric and votes,” said Alphonso David, president of the 3 million-member Human Rights Campaign and the former chief legal counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.