Mallio faces heat over race-baiter $

ALBANY — Mayor de Blasio’s campaign and progressive groups are calling on Republican mayoral challenger Nicole Malliotakis to return a $4,900 donation from embattled billionaire charter-school investor Daniel Loeb.

The calls came days after Loeb made headlines with a since-deleted Facebook post accusing state Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who is black, of having done “more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.”

De Blasio’s campaign and the Working Families Party called on the Staten Island GOP assemblywoman to return the money.

“Her biggest supporters are the billionaires behind (President) Trump and Breitbart News and the guy who thinks standing up for public schools is worse than the KKK,” de Blasio campaign spokesman Dan Levitan said. “These are things all New Yorkers should reject.”

Malliotakis campaign spokesman Rob Ryan said she has no plan to return the money. “We are glad Mr. Loeb apologized for what he said,” he said.