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]
“don’t forget that the councilmember is republican, conservative libertarian.”
So what? Does that mean he must be lying? If he is willing to go on record stating several workers approached him and provided great detail on teh slowdown, then he should be held to account if the whole thing is a lie.
Do you think some left wing politician would be pushing a story that could potentially bury his/her Union Thug Masters?
Let’s just say the councilman may have taken comments and inflated them into more than they were. Or the Post creatively edited what they told him. They do have a history of doing that.
” But denying the possibility because of the source is just idiotic.”
EXACTLY. And who is doing it??? All the lefty liberal union supporters. Typical.
There is also a Times article today about the response and it talks about the failures all down the line- it’s well written, factual with quotes from named sources and not a hysterical finger-pointing at the union hatchet job. Quite a difference.
don’t forget that the councilmember is republican, conservative libertarian.
Bob ;
Aw knock it off. So, in other words, the Post fabricated the comments from the City Council member that it cited?
I have no political axe to grind with the Post- I speak form real first hand experience with their “journalism.” They destroyed a great organization and a good man and his wife. With gossip, innuendo and unproven allegations. If that’s your kind of newspaper, well that’s your problem.
“Comment from the jerk in chare was that it was a “shift change.””
That could have been the truth. They do have an unfortunately coordinated shift change at sanitation (and MTA). I believe workers have the option of like 3 shifts that all start ar roughly the same time with very little overlap, which basically means that minimal work is being done for an hour or so because most workers are leaving or coming on.
Not a political ax to grind with the Post Benson; they’re simply not a reliable news source and haven’t been one in living memory. FWIW I believed that about the Post 50 years ago, when I bought the paper for it’s liberal pull-out editorial section and threw away the rest.