Four years after then 27-year-old candidate and now state Sen. Julia Salazar, born and raised in a tony part of South Florida, just a few years after arriving in New York as a right-wing pro-Israel Christian, introduced herself to voters as an impoverished Jewish immigrant of color and progressive anti-Zionist in a shanda for leftists willing to look past that mess, and her own family’s emphatic denials of her life story — not to mention identity theft allegations that, according to Salazar’s own civil court filings, also including a claim that she’d had an affair, which she’s denied, with her neighbor and Mets and Seinfeld legend Keith Hernandez — to back the new socialist’s winning bid to defeat a real-estate friendly incumbent Democrat in North Brooklyn whose son still represents the same area in the Assembly, a Republican newly elected to Congress representing parts of Queens and Nassau County just told her to hold my beer.
This time, yadda yadda, voters didn’t choose to look past a candidate’s bizarre biographical issues, once again involving a concocted claim of a Jewish family history since the New York Times’ blockbuster report on how basically nothing in Trumpy 34-year-old George Santos’ biography — including where he went to school, the big-name businesses he says he worked at while he was actually doing customer service for the Dish Network, or the animal rights rescue group he claims…
