San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz is frequent critic of the governor. “A person who uses that language against a woman, whether a public figure or not, should not govern Puerto Rico …this type of behavior is completely unacceptable,” she wrote on Twitter. Mark-Viverito traveled to the island to join protesters in their calls for the governor to resign. “Our people should come out and defend Tom and beat up that whore,” Rosselló wrote. The governor wrote that he was upset Mark-Viverito had criticized Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, for backing statehood for Puerto Rico. Rosselló apologized last week after the leak of a chat message in which he referred to Melissa Mark-Viverito, the Puerto Rico-born former speaker of the New York City Council, using the Spanish word for “whore.” Here are some targets of the offending exchanges.įormer New York City Council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito The scandal has already led to the resignations of two members of Rosselló’s Cabinet. “I will continue my work and my responsibility to the people of Puerto Rico,” the governor told reporters Tuesday. The governor and 11 top aides and Cabinet members exchanged profanity-laced, homophobic and misogynistic messages about fellow politicians, members of the media, celebrities and others in a scandal many are calling “RickyLeaks.” The messages were sent in December 2018 and January 2019. Protesters took to the streets in recent days after nearly 900 pages from the messaging app Telegram were published by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism. Ricardo Rosselló is rejecting calls to step down after the leaks of hundreds of derisive and offensive private chat messages between him and members of his inner circle.
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