A USSR-born Brooklyn pol born recently dissed his constituents, declaring he and fellow comrades who fled to the United States are more cultured than homegrown Americans.
State Assemblyman Michael Novakhov, a one-time Sen. Bernie Sanders-loving Dem who flipped GOP to run for office in his mostly red southern Brooklyn district, made the claim in a Feb. 18 Facebook rant about vandals ripping down lights his office used taxpayer money to install along a walking bridge connecting Sheepshead Bay to Manhattan Beach.
“We, the descendants of the USSR, consider ourselves a little more cultured than the residents of the country we came to,” he wrote, according to a Facebook translation from Russian to English on the assemblyman’s page.
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