A longtime district manager claimed she was “abruptly” fired from a Queens community board because she’s a “middle-aged white woman” who doesn’t gel with the group’s progressive politics.
Debra Markell Kleiner claims she has been subject to escalating “harassment” in the years before she was fired by Community Board 2 last month, but members brushed aside those claims and said the she simply wasn’t doing her job.
Markell Kleiner, 66, said the axing from the local government advisory group will cost her a full pension in her first public comments on her firing.
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