New York Daily News

With a friend like this . . .

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Barely had Rodneyse Bichotte warmed her new seat in the state Assembly when she divided her Brooklyn district into us and them. Blacks and Jews. Bichotte, who is African-American, went on a Jewish radio program Saturday night to explain her opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s tuition tax credit, which would aid children in parochial, private and public schools.

Orthodox Jews in the Flatbush district had lobbied to get her onboard with Cuomo’s bill, only to get the back of Bichotte’s hand.

“It’s not like the majority of the Jewish district had voted for me or supported me. OK?” Bichotte said in a moment of ugly candor.

“The people I’m going to listen to are the ones who support me because they’re the ones who vote me in, right?”

Bichotte merely had to look at the voting-age demographi­cs of her district, 20% white and 61% black, to decide which way the wind blows for Brooklyn’s kids. (By the way: A Siena poll pegs 55% black support for Cuomo’s bill.)

Bichotte says she, like her white predecesso­r, Rhoda Jacobs, backs an alternativ­e bill and is being unfairly targeted by Jewish critics under “a different standard on a black woman.”

Nope, same standard. On Monday, Bichotte apologized and allowed that “I represent my entire district.” Don’t ever forget it.

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