City Council Candidate Didn’t Mean to Offend With Condescending, Sexist Remark

Photo: Ed Hartzog

“What’s a pretty girl like you doing reading those?” —Upper East Side city council candidate Ed Hartzog, when asked by DNAinfo reporter Victoria Bekiempis about his campaign finance filings. Hartzog later told Bekiempis, “I hope you didn’t take offense by that. I didn’t mean to be offensive.”