A newly-formed Hispanic advocacy group that slammed Democrat Bill de Blasio’s stop and frisk stance at City Hall Thursday has ties to the Republican mayoral candidate’s campaign, The Post has learned.
Hispanics for Safe Communities founder Juan Reyes and about 20 associates warned that de Blasio’s bid to limit stop and frisk would bring back the crime waves of decades past.
But Reyes didn’t mention that his son, former Mayor Giuliani aide Juan D. Reyes III, was a committee member for GOP nominee Joe Lhota’s birthday fundraiser bash at the midtown Sheraton later that same evening.
“I didn’t know that,” the elder Reyes said when asked about his son’s link to Lhota, who was deputy mayor under Giuliani.
Reyes claimed his son was not a part of the 100-member advocacy group, which he insisted had no affiliation with the campaign.
Lhota also said he knew nothing of the group, whose members include Bronx Republican district leaders Jose Colon and Rosaline Nieves.