The Democratic majority leader of the Yonkers City Council allegedly railed that she wanted to “slice this b—h’s throat” after a fellow lawmaker voted unsuccessfully to remove her from the post earlier this month, according to a complaint.
Councilwoman Tasha Diaz made the alleged remark about Councilwoman Corazon Pineda-Isaac after a local council reorganization meeting on Jan. 2, multiple sources told The Journal News.
Several people in the local council chamber claim they heard Diaz mutter the menacing comment soon after Pineda-Isaac unsuccessfully voted against the Democratic majority leader retaining her role for the next two years.
“I need to get out of here before I slice this b—h’s throat,” one source recalled Diaz saying while she was still in the council chamber.
Moments later while in the council president’s adjacent office, another source alleged Diaz repeated that she wanted to “slit” her fellow councilwoman’s neck.
Diaz, who ultimately retained her position in the reorganization vote, didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about the alleged throat-slicing comment.
Pineda-Isaac filed a lengthy complaint with City Hall last week about the alleged remark.
The councilwoman, a fellow Democrat, also listed off other menacing comments Diaz has allegedly spewed about her in recent months, according to the complaint.
“Imagine how I felt being made aware of that,” Pineda-Isaac wrote of the throat threat. “Imagine coming to work and having to sit next to someone who has made such violent remarks.”
Pineda-Isaac claimed in the complaint she once overheard Diaz calling her a “backwards b—h” and that she would “smack the taste out of my mouth.”
In a statement to the local outlet, Diaz ripped Pineda-Isaac’s complaint as “retaliatory” and said it would only waste “city resources and taxpayer money.”
She stopped short, though, of denying the comments.
“In politics and while fighting for the residents of my district, I often speak hyperbolically as I am very passionate for fighting for the people of my district,” Diaz said.
“Language taken out of context does not give the full picture and is mainly used as metaphors. If language used has ever offended anyone, I apologize.”