What had good intentions to protest bill A7033/S6487 designating in part of the neighborhood of Van Nest into a Yemen Cultural District. The president of the Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance spoke of having only a thirty minute zoom meeting with Assemblyman John Zaccaro, and repested requests for more information were ignored by the assemblyman even after the assemblyman proposed the resolution for the Van Nest Yemini Cultural District. VNNA president Bernadette Ferrara even showed maps of the Yemini Cultural District and Van Nest saying that the businesses were only in a small part with other areas not having any reference to Yemen.
The good intentioned protest in front of a closed assembly office turned into a political circus when two Conservative Party candidates tried to use the protest to advance their failing campaigns. First up was 34th State Senate Conservative Party candidate Adrian Romero went into a tirade about the DSA and what Democrats were doing. Romero only a few nights earlier gave the middle finger more than once to current 82nd Assemblyman Michael Benedetto before this reporter and two of the people at this rally who attended the Morris Park Community Association meeting. After Romero 36th State Senate Conservative Party candidate Grace Marrero (or Lovac, as she goes by both names), said that Adrian Romero didn't give the middle finger to anyone, as she also spewed political nonsense. She had not attended the Morris Park meeting as one of the two men in the rally who witnessed Mr. Romero said, so how would she know what went on at the meeting.
Vnna President Ferrara tried to get the protest back on track by calling up the VNNA Vice-President and historian Richard Vittaco who both spoke out against the lack of information and communication by Assemblyman Zaccaro in the making of the Yemeni Cultural District. VNNA President Ferrera said that she was told it was too late to amend the Zaccaro bill since it had already passed both houses of the state legislature and was on the governors desk awaiting to be signed. She urged people to write to the governor to not sign the bill A7033/S6487 desinating a Yemini Cultural District.
The small crowd of protesters of Assemblyman Zaccaro's Yemen Cultural District in Van Nest stand in front of the assemblyman's office.
Conservative Party candidate Adrian Romero turned a community rally into his personal political campaign for office.
Another Conservative Party candidate Grace Morerro (or Lovac) also turned the community rally into her political campaign for office.
Van Nest historian Richard Vitacco tried to get the rally back to the community as he spoke of some of the history of the Van Nest neighborhood, being for all people.
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