The Democratic leader of the City Council is punishing Brooklyn Councilman Ari Kagan for switching to the Republican Party — stripping him of his committee chairmanship and moving him to a smaller …
— stripping him of his committee chairmanship and relegating him to a smaller office, The Post has learned.was behind the decision to remove him as chair of the panel on resiliency and waterfront after he announced in December he’d ditched the Democrats over their far left, soft-on-crime policies despised by many of his pro-law and order constituents in southern Brooklyn.
Kagan said he was also removed from the committees on land use, finance, housing and buildings — and that a resiliency and waterfront panel he headed was disbanded and merged with the environmental protection committee. “I heard nothing in January, December and now I’m learning today they are voting to dissolve this committee. It shows the hypocrisy of the council leadership and the Democratic Party,” Kagan said.
He said he was also told he had to move from his more spacious digs to a smaller office with no windows at 250 Broadway across from City Hall.
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