Exclusive | Civil rights leader calls on embattled DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo to resign: Double Standards of America

A civil rights leader is calling for the resignation of Gustavo Gordillo, the co-leader of New York City’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America — saying his series of scandals proves the DSA now stands for the “Double Standards of America.”Rev.Ken McCall is demanding Gordillo steps down following bombshell revelations that his millionaire parents set him up in a renovated $1.5 million luxury row house in a historically black but gentrifying neighborhood, as well as him getting sued for failing to pay rent in another building and fudging his blue-collar work history.“The Democratic Socialists of America have become the Double Standards of America — demanding transparency, fairness, and accountability from everyone else while ignoring serious questions about one of their own,” said McCall, a pastor who also assists tenants in New York City Housing Authority complexes.“The allegations surrounding NYC chapter co-chair Gustavo Gordillo raise troubling questions about whether he misled working-class New Yorkers about where he lived, how he obtained housing, and his labor credentials.

DSA leaders and elected officials must answer these questions publicly and call for Gordillo’s resignation.”Gustavo’s handle on X is “@uniongustavo.”But Gordillo, 38, a former Yale University liberal arts student, was fired from his electricians’ union apprenticeship program in March after being a no-show for months, so he never qualified to become a fully credentialed electrician, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 said in a statement last week.The DSA then provided him with a $95,000 salary.Another bombshell is that Gordillo, who — along with DSA colleagues –demonizes landlords and the rich, is a child of privilege, not a proletariat in the trenches with the working class.Gordillo, co-chairman of the NYC chapter of the DSA, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying life in an expensive, two-story, nearly...