Mayor Bloomberg – defending Speaker Christine Quinn today against attacks over the City Council’s discretionary funding policy – called his possible successor a “person of enormous integrity.”
Quinn has “done an excellent job running the city,” said Bloomberg.
The two have sparred recently over Quinn’s support for an NYPD inspector general, which Quinn says would provide needed oversight and Bloomberg says would hobble crimefighting. But the mayor put those differences aside today when asked about member items.
“I have always supported member items as long as they are administered and checked carefully,” said Bloomberg.
Quinn also supports the distribution of member items, a long-standing funding source which has come under renewed fire since Queens Councilman Dan Halloran was arrested on corruption charges.
Halloran, a Republican, allegedly offered to dole out his council discretionary funds to a cooperating FBI witness in a wide-ranging probe targeting state Sen. Malcolm Smith.
Quinn’s Democratic primary opponents – particularly Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former Councilman Sal Albanese – have used the scandal to pounce on Quinn and call for an end to the funding.
Bloomberg said the arrest was not about member items.
“The real problem here is there is a group of unelected people who control the ballot access,” he said.
And “I’ve always said that I think Speaker Quinn, who is getting criticized for this, is a person of enormous integrity and I think she has done an excellent job of running the city. It’s not an easy job but I think she’s done it well,” he said.
I don't see how the billionaire mayor with the questionable integrity and his billion dollar slush fund/PAC coming in to defend the City Council speaker with the questionable integrity and the slush fund helps Christine Quinn in the Democratic primary.
Doesn't it just remind people of how scummy Quinn has been with the slush fund and how scummy Quinn has been in overturning term limits?
Quinn is a crook, Weiner is a Pervert. I'd rather have a pervert, who admits it than a crook who denies it. She had a slush fund of 4.5 MILLION dollars which she doled out for favors using phony companies. Much of the money (about 25%) went into her own district.
ReplyDeleteMayor Blowme let her slide because he needed her to run for a 3rd (and illegal) term. She twisted arms and bribed people to get the votes to toss the vote of the people about term limits.
She also got tens of thousands of dollars in donations from Real Estate companies. The people who owned St Vincents Hosp gave her $30,000 which she denies, but it is a matter of public record.
The Rudin family is building high prices condos on the property thanks to Quinn, who sold out her district for a few thousand dollars. That's in the record books as well.
She corrupt, she's a crook and she is ten times worse than Mayor Blowme. If you're stupid enough to vote for her, you deserve what she will do to this city.
Yeah, give me the pervert instead of the crook. Quinn is the worst kind of politician you can find.