Tuesday, October 20, 2009

City Hall News

If you want good news on local politics, check out City Hall News.

There's an interesting interview in it with former Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer who talks about what it's like to run for mayor against Bloomberg's billions. And Freddy is also the only public person I've heard so far to comment on the scandal of mob infiltrating the Department of Buildings.

He says in this interview, "Let’s see, apart from the fact that cranes fell down on people, and how many people needed to be killed and property needed to be damaged before you figured out you needed a new commissioner at the department of buildings? As it turns out, the Luchese crime family got hold of a city agency? And this isn’t the cause of a major scandal in this city? Excuse me? But not only are apparently politicians at City Hall asleep on their jobs, but so are newspapers. This isn’t a major scandal in this city?"

Good question Freddy. Don't expect an answer any time soon.

Some people on the blog Brownstoner.com also seconded this sentiment so I'm not along in thinking that this is a major scandal that seriously question's Bloomberg's competence as mayor. But again, don't expect the major press in this town to make this a big scandal, the press is way too scared of of the man.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please keep it civil, intelligent, and expletive-free. Otherwise, opine away.