City council member targets Eric Ulrich over ethics complaint

Queens Democratic Party officials are retaliating against GOP City Councilman Eric Ulrich for filing an ethics complaint against City Council member Elizabetღh Crowley — a relative of a powerful congressman, according to sources.

Sources sa🐓y Crowley and her allies — including cousin Joe Crowley, a congressman and the borough’s Democratic leader — have reached out to uniformed-officers unions to ask why they’re🐎 endorsing Ulrich.

They pointed out that he was recommending a “yes” vote on the proposal for a state constitutional convention, which the un⛎ions fiercely oppose.

Joe Crowley, who had shown little ⛦interest in Ulrich’s re-election race, also suddenly endorsed his Democratic opponent, Mike Scala.

“People are really rallying to Liz’s side and defending her integrity and her right to ﷽look after her kids,” said Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Queens).

“🔥There’s disappointment that ✨a political dispute would develop into an unjustified ethics complaint. This should not have escalated into a spurious attack on her integrity,” he said.

The fight starte♕d after Elizabeth Crowley’s son was beaten up in a fight last year near a waterfront restaurant in Ulrich🤡’s district, the Bayview Grille, where he worked.

🏅Crowley proceeded to sic government agencies on the eatery’s owners, Ulrich later claimed.

Inspectors responded in forc🉐e and the restaurant was shut after getting numerous violations.

When the owners reached out to Ulrich this year, he filed a complaint with the Conflicts ꦬof Interest Board, the city’s ethics panel.

Asked if Democratic Party offic𓆉ials pressured la𒅌bor leaders to back away from Ulrich, Lancman said, “Opposition to a constitutional convention is the No. 1 litmus test for the labor movement.

I would not be surprised for labor leaders to hear from the Democr🎐atic Party saying, ‘Why are you backing him?’ ”

Ulrich felt the pressure.

This week, he reversed his position on the constitutional convention, posting a statement 🐎on Facebook saying he now opposes 🌼it.

Ulrich declined to comment, as did both Crowleys.

The councilwoman, through a spokesman, instead questioned why Ulrich had⛄ accepted a $250 campaign contribution last year from alleged Bonanno crime-family associate Robert Pisani.

“The real ethical question is why Eric Ulrich took money from a violent mob as💫sociate and dangerous sexual predator who is co-owner of this bar [the Bayview], an🐻d has yet to give it back or donate it to charity,” said Crowley spokesman Doug Forand.

Pisani, who was charged this year in loan-sharking and sex-crime cases, is no longer affiliated with Bayview Grill𝕴e.