Recchia blasts Grimm for voting to defund Obamacare
Councilman Domenic Recchia, who has already declared his intention to run against US Rep. Michael Grimm for congress, even though the incumbent isn’t up for re-election until next year, is already talking as if the contest is taking place in this election cycle.
On Sept. 20, Recchia sent out a blistering email criticizing Grimm’s vote that day in the House to defund the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. Grimm (R-C-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Staten Island) voted with his fellow House Republicans in favor of a continuing resolution to keep the government running, a bill that included the provision defunding President Barack Obama’s signature legislation.
The House voted 230 to 189, largely along party lines, for the stopgap measure to keep the federal government funded through mid-December.