Good luck getting ahold of NYC’s parking summons advocate

NY Post ^ | December 9, 2018 | Kevin Sheehan and Max Jaeger

[EinNYC]

The city pays him $120,000 a year to help New Yorkers fight unfair parking tickets — but he’s proven harder to find than a Midtown parking spot.

Parking Summons Advocate Jean Wesh of Queens was hired by the Department of Finance in April to “[assist] members of the public, who do not already have their own representation, with parking-summons complaints and issues,’’ with the agency adding that it would set up a toll-free number to connect motorists to the taxpayer-funded fixer’s office.

[EinNYC]

You have GOT to read this article. This guy is being paid $120,000 a year to help NYC residents fight parking tickets---yet you can't find him for nothing when you might need him. And, he's got more excuses than Carter's has pills (one of my dad's favorite phrases) when it comes to (1) being available to do this job, (2) having a working computer to do this job), (3) wanting people to actually call the number on his business card, (4) having access to tickets he's supposed to read and react to, (5) being able to enumerate how many people he's helped, (6) being known to the city operator so she can direct calls to him. Sounds like a total dream job for the professional work dodger and excuse author, right? One the city budget could most certainly do without.

[kiryandil]

STFU and pay yer taxes, NYC peasants.

[gundog]

Maybe it’s Kramer.

[TexasKamaAina]

I don’t get it. The city issues tickets and then pays somebody to help people fight the ticket? What am I missing?

[prophetic]

He sounds like the 539 politicians we have in DC except they got staff, but produces very little for their people who they claim to represent back home.

[mass55th]

"And, he's got more excuses than Carter's has pills"

Almost forgot that one. We used to say more excuses than Carter's has little liver pills.

[867V309]

What am I missing?

that bureaucracies sometimes screw up, and it's not unreasonable to have an insider who can help?

[GnuThere]

You mean like Rep Bug Eyes, who brags that she will pay her interns $15/hr (out of taxpayer appropriated dollars)?

[prophetic]

I’m thinking that she probably figured out a way to skim her cut from all the staff. She is a DEMOCRAT after all.

[Riley]

I briefly lived in Queens. I remember once walking down to Austin Street and on one side of the street, saw five parking tickets being written. I stopped driving in NYC after that.

[chuckee]

This guy could very well be the next mayor of New York. That moron Mayor Diblasi had a similar type do nothing job as city ombudsman advocate who was was supposed to advocate on the behalf of residents calling his ombudsman office with problems with the city agencies

[ridesthemiles]

I remember that when Katrina happened, it was revealed that New Orleans had a large number of ‘police’ on a ghost payroll.

[Anti-Bubba182]

He looks like a job scammer. He knows what he ISN’T doing. He will collect that check as long as he can.

[texas booster]

No, he is not a scammer, just another relative of the mayor or an assemblyman.

Probably someone’s nephew on probation, who is required to work while on probation.

[Anti-Bubba182]

You take the money and don’t do the job, don’t even appear to try to, it is a dishonest scheme, a scam.

[texas booster]

Point taken.