The controversial co-chair of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America can\u2019t relate to the Big Apple\u2019s working class and needs to quit, a group activists said Tuesday outside his $1.5 million Brooklyn townhouse.<\/p>\n
Co-chair Gustavo Gordillo has brought heat on himself by lying about immigrant working class roots<\/a> \u2014 even though he\u2019s the silver-spoon son of a Miami millionaire.<\/p>\n \u201cThe problem boils down to the lying,\u201d civil rights leader the Rev. Kevin McCall said. \u201cBecause if a person that lives in public housing is looking up to you, is hearing things that you say that you, quote-unquote, \u2018stand for,\u2019 and then all of it\u2019s a lie, it doesn\u2019t make no sense.<\/p>\n NYC DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo should resign, activists said Tuesday. unionGustavo\/X<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t have leadership in this city, in Brooklyn, and think that it\u2019s OK just to lie to New Yorkers and lie to public housing residents and people that face elevator issues, mold issues, high rents, people that face issues every day, and nothing happens,\u201d McCall said.<\/p>\n McCall and the others left a letter for Gordillo calling for him to step down at his home, though he was not there as pricey renovations were underway.<\/p>\n Yale grad Gordillo was gifted a $1.5 million townhouse in Bed-Stuy by his wealthy dad \u2014 with another $1.4 million in upgrades underway. The operative cosplaying as blue collar then secured a $95,000 DSA salary<\/a> for him and co-chair Grace Mausser, claiming there\u2019s too mush socialist work to do.<\/p>\n Gordillo, 38, crafted a phony working class image of himself, claiming he was raised by penniless Peruvian immigrants \u2014 with his mom cleaning houses and his dad flipping burgers at Wendy\u2019s. <\/p>\n But an unearthed\u00a02021 obituary<\/a>\u00a0about his paternal grandfather, Manuel Gordillo, the first to emigrate to the US, tells a radically different story about his roots, The Post found.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn residence of Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the NYC-DSA, speaks during a rally to demand that lawmakers tax the rich. Cindy Schultz for NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cManuel earned a medical degree from San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, and emigrated to the US in 1958 as a medical resident,\u201d the obit reads. \u201cHe obtained his US citizenship in 1964. He built a long and respected career as a psychiatrist in the Cleveland area and reluctantly retired at 87 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n