West New York Mayor Felix Roque is heated over an alleged physical altercation between his son, Joseph, and Commissioner Count Wiley this morning, saying “he’ll make a man out of him” if Wiley wants to settle things “mano y mano.” Meanwhile, Wiley simply called the alleged incident “political nonsense.”
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“He should be ashamed of himself,” Roque told Hudson County View after proclaiming that Wiley punched his son, Joseph, in the face this morning. “At not time would I ever do that to a young man.”
“And you know what: if he has a fight to pick, I’m willing to challenge him. Him and I, mano y mano, we’ll do it together,” he said, later adding: “If he has a problem, he’s got it with me, come to me, and I’ll show him; I’ll make a man out of him.”
Wiley said the incident was “political nonsense” that stemmed from Joseph Roque being aggressive with his running mate Myrli Sanchez.
“I said ‘Joe, ya know, it’s a free country, she wants to rip down a sign, you ripped down ours, it’s just part of the game,” Wiley explained, noting that Sanchez ripped down the sign because she felt it was too close to a polling site. Signs are not supposed to be hung within 100 feet of a polling site.
” … He got very upset, he got very aggressive. And he was doing that, walking up the block … he started pushing me and shoving me, following me all over the place up the block, thinking I was going to rip down another sign.”
“So, ya know, it’s just political nonsense, it ain’t gonna go nowhere and this don’t mean anything.”