Bo: ‘Chirlane’ judge beyond the pale for me

MAYORAL HOPEFUL Bo Dietl said he knew he’d lose his court bid to run as a Democrat when he saw the Supreme Court judge who decided the case — and she “looked like” Mayor de Blasio’s wife.

“First of all, the judge looked like Chirlane de Blasio,” Dietl (photo) said to loud laughter at a candidate screening held by the Manhattan Republican Party. “And as soon as I saw her, as soon as I saw her, I knew I had a problem,” he said of the jurist’s resemblance to the city’s First Lady, Chirlane McCray, who is black.

Dietl was in court because when he registered as a candidate he checked two boxes — Independence and Democratic — and as such was disqualified from each line.

After the event, Dietl told reporters the judge “looked like her (McCray’s) sister,” when asked why he thought the judge’s appearance would matter in his case.

“She was a Democratic appointee,” an aide interjected, and Dietl repeated the line.

Questioned further, the retired NYPD cop said of the loaded remark that he “didn’t mean it to be racist.”

Dietl was at Wednesday’s event to urge Manhattan Republicans to grant him permission to run on their party line. “Shame on Bo for going full Trump. Shame on the rest of the Republicans for staying silent,” de Blasio’s campaign spokesman, Dan Levitan, said.

Dietl was on the dais with Paul Massey, the real estate developer who has so far raised the most money but garnered little momentum; Michel Faulkner, a charismatic minister and ex-Jet with a commanding speaking style and long GOP history, and Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who joined the race yesterday.

While Dietl — who yelled and cracked jokes throughout the event — garnered the most reaction from the crowd, Massey sought to position himself as the one to unite the party and be in the best position to defeat de Blasio in November.

Faulkner, meanwhile, made the case that he was a longtime Republican who could sway AfricanAmerican voters — noting he hadn’t changed parties like Dietl or donated to de Blasio like Massey.

Malliotakis emphasized her Republican bona fides, ousting a Democratic incumbent for her Assembly seat and fighting with nowdisgraced Speaker Sheldon Silver, and argued she would have broad appeal as a half-Cuban, half-Greek candidate.