Posted on 11/05/2012 7:07:30 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Mayor Bloomberg’s Response to Sandy Leaves Many New Yorkers Out in the Cold
The mayor has brilliantly stage-managed his handling of the storm, but outside the city’s affluent precincts numerous angry residents feel abandoned by his administration as days have passed and help has remained distant, writes Harry Siegel.
“Are you from OEM? Or FEMA?”
“No, we’re from Brooklyn.”
That was the exchange when, after nearly six hours, the volunteer group I spent Sunday with finally managed to deliver supplies— flashlights, blankets, winter jackets, baby supplies, and pet food—to Staten Islanders who’d been rocked by Hurricane Sandy.
On television, New York City is resiliently recovering from Sandy—Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg even fought hard against canceling the ING marathon, giving in only when its sponsors caved. The mayor has maximized his television time with frequent updates in carefully staged settings, with members of the Obama administration standing behind him and his hypnotic sign-language interpreter Lydia Callis beside him. It's a swell sales job, part of his business-friendly, socially-liberal, post-partisan persona, that (with the help of his vast media empire), has helped him maintain his national reputation even as New Yorkers have soured on him.
But his one unscripted moment was far more telling: an unannounced trip to the devastated Rockaways on Saturday that happened to be caught by a camera crew with local news stations NY1. A local woman, part of a furious crowd of people who felt abandoned by the city, was held back by the mayor’s security detail, as she yelled at him: “Where’s the help? Where’s the f*cking help?”
Outside of the city’s affluent precincts, New Yorkers have felt abandoned by the ultra-mayor who’s deemed New York a “luxury product” as days have passed and help has remained distant.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
W and w wants me to battle this out in public, so I shall.
Sent a private email message to inform him/her that the graphics waste bandwith for people who are power limited like my friends in LI and you, Glock.
So here’s my public reply..
I hope that when you have a disaster, may it be soon, that the heartless don’;t tell you to go eff off... but I shall.
The media fryed Bush on katrina when we know it was Nagan and the governor but the media will never fry Obama for sandy, he’s allowed to show up for a photo op and jet off to campaign with no repercussions meanwhile douchberg sits in his castle on the hill like most of the progressive elitists do dictate orders and endorse his socialist buddy Obama. Wouldnt it be nice if NY turned red on election night becuase of this
WTF does Obama care? NY and NJ are going Rat as they always do. He doesn’t need to buy their votes.
I would love a red NY. NYC out votes the rest of the state along with cities.......like Ithaca.
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