NY Post: Blame the Garbage Bosses
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south…
Today in blizzard finger-pointing: “Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned. Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts.” The subject line of the email from a reader yesterday morn that included this photo: “This is Fulton street?”
Sanitation Department’s Slow Snow Clean-Up Was a Budget Protest [NY Post]
benson- but I do claim the Post is a rag and I have the facts and experience to prove it.
benson- did I not agree an investigation was warranted? (I did at 10:05). It is- and the whole city response is going to be investigated, in any case.
Our Mayor has failed us, he didn’t do nothing for us.
But, Times Square is all cleaned up.
Even if this is true, attributing this kind of behavior to ALL unions is a little Palin-esque, no?
Dave I suggest you read gman’s post above. As for the councilman- he’s a politician- this is what they do.
“Let’s just say the councilman may have taken comments and inflated them into more than they were.”
Well then, an investigation would expose him, wouldn’t it?
“Or the Post creatively edited what they told him.”
Once again, an investigation would confirm it to be the rag that you claim it to be.
So once again, I ask: why not simply procceed to an investigation into the charges, instead of beating up on the Post? Folks already know that the Post is a rag, judging from the posts above, so what harm could come from an investigation?
Benson,
Don’t be so naive. I don’t deny that their MIGHT have been some union slowdown, I did write that even a broken watch is right twice a day. I simply will NOT ever give credence to a New York Post “exclusive.” Lets see if a real newspaper picks this up and cites a reliable source [and I don’t consider a politician with anonymous sources to be such]. By real newspaper I include Murdock’s conservative WSJ, which I read regularly, in addition to the NYT. Today’s Post is no more reliable as a conservative rag than it was long ago as a liberal rag .
By bxgrl on December 30, 2010 10:44 AM
Let’s just say the councilman may have taken comments and inflated them into more than they were.
Evidence of that??? NO, I THOUGHT NOT. This is a dangerous accusation just to support your point of view.
NSS- pete was engaging in a little ironic humor. (democrats do that now and then).