Kicy Motley, De Blasio Aide, Known For Crass Remarks

Why does De Blasio have such trouble finding people to work for him who the public can respect?

The post below was published in March 2014

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Kicy Motley

New de Blasio aide has history of vulgar tweets

By Beth DeFalco

, March 27, 2014

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This is what passes for “community relations” in Mayor de Blasio’s New York.

A foul-mouthed former campaign aide to the mayor who was previously scolded for her Twitter rants against the NYPD and NAACP was quietly hired as the mayor’s new co-director of community affairs in Brooklyn.

Kicy Motley was spotted by The Post last week cheering on de Blasio at the mayor’s first bill-signing ceremony in Brooklyn.

Motley, 28, a volunteer in de Blasio’s campaign last year, was caught going on a Twitter tear.

Her highlight reel included:

-  “NYPD fatally shoot knife-wielding man in Times Square. (VIDEO) F–k. The. Police” Motley wrote on Aug. 11, 2012, after cops shot Darrius Kennedy, 51.

-  She slammed the NAACP in January 2013 for siding with drink companies against Bloomberg’s soda ban: “@NAACP aka corporate d–k riders. Standing withsoda makers for a few bucks.”

- In February 2013, she linked to an article highlighting Bloomberg’s pro-gun-control efforts and wrote, “Hey rest of #America, welcome to Bloomberg using his #money to mess up your sh-t.”

-  Motley also used Twitter to cheer crazed ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner, who went on a wild shooting spree across Southern California in February 2013 after claiming he was fired because of racism.

“There’s a part of me rooting for #Dorner. This racist, imperialist country gets the best of people sometimes. It makes some snap. #lapd,” she tweeted several days before Dorner was killed by cops during a standoff.

After The Post exposed the tweets, Motley pulled down her Twitter page and apologized, but stayed on with the campaign.

“These tweets do not reflect my values, and I regret posting them in haste. I apologize for any pain they may have caused,” she said in a prepared statement released by the campaign at the time.

Last month, the Capital New York Web site reported that de Blasio had cleaned out Bloomberg’s Community Affairs Unit and replaced its members with his loyalists, including Motley.

Community directors spend most of their time out in the field working with elected officials, community boards, civic associations, community-based organizations and tenants associations, the mayor’s office said.

“Kicy was hired for this assignment because of her deep knowledge of Brooklyn and her commitment to the citizens of this city. She is well versed in constituent casework and navigating city agencies, which is part of her duties,” de Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak told The Post.

Motley is working on housing issues, Walzak said.

The mayor’s office would not provide her salary information.

Bill de Blasio campaign aid apologizes for offensive tweets

By Sally Goldenberg

 

YOU DON’T SAY! Kicy Motley, a Bill de Blasio aide, was told by the campaign to stop posting controversial tweets.

 

Bill de Blasio’s new mayoral campaign aide is a Twitter terror who has littered the Web site with foul-mouthed rants against everyone from the NYPD to the NAACP.

“NYPD fatally shoot knife-wielding man in Times Square. (VIDEO) F–k. The. Police,” ranted de Blasio volunteer coordinator Kicy Motley on Aug. 11 2012, after cops shot Darrius Kennedy, 51, on Seventh Avenue.

In addition to using gangsta-rap-like language to blast the cops, the campaign aide also slammed the NAACP in January for siding with drink companies against Bloomberg’s soda ban.

“@NAACP aka corporate d–k riders. Standing with soda makers for a few bucks,” she wrote.

In February, she linked to an article highlighting Bloomberg’s pro-gun-control efforts and wrote, “Hey rest of #America, welcome to Bloomberg using his #money to mess up your sh-t.”

She also used Twitter to cheer crazed ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner, who went on a wild shooting spree across Southern California after claiming he was fired because of racism.
“There’s a part of me rooting for #Dorner. This racist, imperialist country gets the best of people sometimes. It makes some snap. #lapd,” she tweeted several days before Dorner was killed by cops during a standoff.

After being questioned by The Post, Motley apologized for her remarks and took her Twitter page down. She had been tweeting under the handle @BrooklynKicy.

“These tweets do not reflect my values, and I regret posting them in haste. I apologize for any pain they may have caused,” she said in a prepared statement released by the campaign.

A campaign spokesman added, “These tweets are clearly unacceptable and do not in any way reflect the views of our campaign, and Kicy has been disciplined for making them.”
A source said she was scolded for the tweets and told to suspend her use of social media.
Motley started working in Public Advocate de Blasio’s office sometime in August and seven months later was hired for the Democrat’s mayoral campaign.

According to her LinkedIn page, she was also an intern in the City Council for eight months last year.

Motley plays an important role in the campaign, responsible for training volunteers and organizing campaign events.

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Kicy Motley

Brooklyn Borough Director at Office of the Mayor - Community Affairs Unit

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Greater New York City Area

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	Office of the Mayor - Community Affairs Unit, The Aardvark Movement
	New York City Mayoral Campaign, City of New York, New York City Council
Education	University of Miami

Censorship at the Panel For Educational Policy

Now we can prove censorship.

 

from Francesco Portelos:

 

NYCDOE Curbs Public Speaking at Panel Meetings.

 

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

See letter sent by DTOE and Solidarity Caucus member to NYC Council:

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Councilwoman Viverito,

The NYCDOE school community, comprised of educators, students, parents and concerned citizens, are very grateful the NYC Council mandates that all NYCDOE Panel for Education Policy meetings are video recorded and live streamed. It brought us one big step closer to accountability, involvement and transparency. However, we are very disheartened to now see that the last three or four meetings include disruption by the panel and curbing of public speeches. Are we to understand that public speaking is allowed, but they can be selective of the content?

Please see the 39:00 minute mark on the official DOE December 18, 2014 video posted here: http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/leadership/PEP/default.htm

and compare it to the one that was recorded live here http://dtoe.org/2014/12/19/video-of-educators-speaking-up-about-workplace-bullying-at-nycdoe-pep/

​Notice how the audio has also been removed by the DOE effectively muzzling the public?​ See how a citizen was stopped from raising concerns about workplace bullying and was then removed?

​Can you please address this?

Francesco A. Portelos

Educator – mrportelos.com

EducatorFightsBack.org​

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FACES: Julian Vinocur, Communications Director, Division of Teaching & Learning

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Julian Vinocur

Communications Director, Division of Teaching & Learning at NYC Department of Education

New York, New York

Political Organization

Previous	Alliance for Quality Education
Education	University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Communications Director, Division of Teaching & Learning

NYC Department of Education

December 2014 – Present (1 month)New York, NY

Director of Campaigns & Communications (NYC)

Alliance for Quality Education

October 2008 – November 2014 (6 years 2 months)Julian Vinocur (@JulianVin) | TwitterLanguagesSPANISHParents & Educators Protest Eviction Of Special Needs Students For Charter Schools Julian Vinocur is the director of campaigns and communications for the Alliance for Quality Education in New York City.

The #EduElection: Owning the Debate through Communications and Social Media
By Julian Vinocur

Youth, parents, and teachers in New York City used traditional and new media to broadcast loudly against education policies that were not working – and to demand change.
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RELEASE: In New Campaign, Zephyr Teachout Joins a Broad Coalition to Limit Hedge Fund Control over Public Education

December 3, 2014 Legislative & Political Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Charlie Albanetti, 518.595.9047
Wendy Liberatore, 518.491.0454
ALBANY (Dec. 3, 2014) — The same hedge funds that bought control of Governor Cuomo and State Senate Republicans now want to take over public education, but we’re not going to let it happen.

That was the message today from Zephyr Teachout, the Working Families Party, the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and a broad coalition of concerned parents. Ahead of a possible special legislative session in Albany next week, they gathered at the Capitol to launch a new campaign to fight the growing efforts of hedge funds to run New York’s schools and dictate education policy.

At a press conference at the state Capitol, they released a new report, “Corruption in Education: The Hedge Fund Takeover of New York’s Schools.”

“New York State is plagued by legal corruption: campaign contributions and outside spending explicitly designed to buy policy outcomes. In 2014, a tiny group of powerful hedge fund executives, representing the most extreme version of this corruption spent historic amounts of money in order to take over education policy,” Teachout writes in the report, which follows on the heels of her recent article in The Daily Beast.

The research and analysis in the report show that hedge fund managers who bankrolled Cuomo’s re-election and the Senate Republicans are the main drivers of an education agenda in Albany designed to starve public schools of resources and raise the cap on privately-run charter schools.

“It’s just wrong for a handful of billionaires to buy our elections and corrupt our education system,” said Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York and Co-Chair of the Working Families Party. “We’re proud to begin this effort to protect our kids’ education from this school privatization scheme.”

“These hedge fund billionaires are the new puppeteers of Albany and they are pulling the strings of Gov. Cuomo and the Republican Majority in the Senate,” said Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education. “The Governor has leveled inflammatory attacks on public schools which is music to the ears of his billionaire campaign investors who are pushing an agenda of privatization and high stakes testing. We need the Governor to focus his concerns on investing in our public school students, not on diverting money away from public schools to fund privately run charter schools that are the pet projects of his billionaire donors.”

“It’s disheartening to think that the Governor wants to hand over my child’s education to hedge fund managers,” said Jamaica Miles, a Schenectady parent and member of Citizen Action of New York. “This corruption of our public education has to stop. I am just one of many parents who are outraged at how money has swayed our politicians to destroy public education, which is so important to the future of our community.”

In the coming days, the campaign will engage parents, teachers, and grassroots groups statewide that want a stronger public education system that serves all children and families, not the interests of the wealthy elite.

The report, “Corruption in Education: The Hedge Fund Takeover of New York’s Schools,” is available here: http://bit.ly/1tAyQfw