Posted on 08/18/2020 6:39:32 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Bill de Blasio's unelected wife has been branded a 'disgrace' for having a staff of 14 costing New York City $2 million, including a $70,000 videographer who filmed her baking cookies - while crime soars amid NYPD budget cuts, trash is left to pile up on the streets and 22,000 city workers face job losses.
Chirlane McCray, who is mulling a run for Brooklyn borough president, enjoys a core team of eight full-time staff who cost the city a combined $1.1 million in annual salaries, according to her office.
Sources at the Mayor's Office told The City the mayor's wife also has at least another six staff who do not feature on the official roster, taking her total workforce to 14 with a hefty price tag of $2 million.
While the mayor's wife has a considerable team - despite not being officially employed by the city government - her husband has sounded repeated warnings that a staggering 22,000 workers could lose their jobs in the fall due to the toll the pandemic has taken on the city's budget.
This comes after de Blasio has already axed $1 billion from the NYPD budget amid a surge in crime and made cuts to essential public services.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The simple act of removing a head from a body is not what kills the brain. This doesn’t just apply to the guillotine. Any forms of swift decapitation will have the same eventual result. If, however, the brain receives no trauma from the killing blow and the decapitation is clean, the brain will continue to function until the lack of oxygen and vital chemicals from blood loss causes unconsciousness and death. The current medical consensus is that survival does occur post-decapitation for a period of roughly 10 to 13 seconds. The amount of time varies depending on the victim’s build, general health, and the immediate circumstances of the fatal blow.
How many cameras did that face break while shooting the videos? No wonder the videographer charged $70,000.
I know where they can get ice cream...
Bob McManus NY POST
February 26, 2020 | 8:36pm
Ignores McCray’s ThriveNYC, Scott Stringer again proves he’s pathetic watchpoodle
Say hello to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the Teacup Yorkie of municipal watchdogs. Teacups are the doggies all the other pups at Westminster make fun of — tiny, toothless and about as far removed from ancestral wolfdom as can be imagined.
Watchdogs, they ain’t.
The same can be said of Stringer, who is fresh off a year-long look at the biggest boondoggle to plague Gotham since bike lanes — co-mayor Chirlane McCray’s ThriveNYC mental-health initiative. Scott barked weakly, then moved on.
Oh, sure, Stringer said, “If we are going to construct a program that works, it cannot be a political program. It has to be a program that has real results and a way to measure effectiveness.”
Then Stringer delivered his verdict: ThriveNYC, ostensibly meant to deliver high-quality services to Gotham’s mentally ill, would be placed on a “watch-list,” presumably for further study.
Oh, dear! What a tragic fate.
Look, let’s be clear: If ever a program lacked “real results” and “effectiveness,” it’s ThriveNYC. It can’t even pass a laugh test, being, as it is, a make-work initiative set up by Mayor Bill de Blasio to give Ms. McCray something to do — and, it now seems, to provide her a bit of exposure in advance of what Hizzoner says could be a run for Brooklyn borough president.
As if Brooklyn doesn’t already have enough problems.
ThriveNYC has burned through a billion dollars or so, with no end in sight, and, as for “real results” and “effectiveness,” just try to find a credible defender of the program.
Or, more to the point, take a look at all the crazy people living in the city’s subways and transportation terminals and panhandling in its public spaces. Really, how much further study does this debacle require? What does Stringer need to make him do more than rub his chin and cluck his tongue?
Ex officio, city comptrollers don’t lack for tools:
There’s Stringer’s “watch-list” approach, of course. He will check back in another year or so to report results.
There is any comptroller’s power to disapprove spending contracts; really, all Stringer has to do when dollars are circling the drain is to twist shut the faucet.
And there is always the bully pulpit, which can have a dramatically corrective effect all its own — for those with the courage to use it.
But courage is a commodity the politically ambitious — if somewhat wilting on the vine — Stringer conspicuously seems to lack. And there is a good reason for that.
Tradition and term limits for most of the city’s elected office-holders have created a step-ladder process for pols looking to move up — reach one level and wait patiently for the next to open up while being very careful to rock no political boats.
And Stringer, who has been on line for the mayoralty for some years now, knows quite well which boats not to rock. High on the list is New York’s not-for-profit community, an agglomeration of ostensible do-good organizations through which the city directs the bulk of its billions in discretionary spending every year.
SEE ALSO
McCray says Stringer ‘grandstanding’ over ThriveNYC spending
At their best, nonprofits do good work, largely relieving the city of the need to expand the municipal leviathan to deliver services deemed essential.
At their worst, which is where one can find far too many of them, they are tax-dollar-sucking, high-salary-paying patronage sumps that know their value to the political cycle; skeevy politicians count on them come Election Day and rarely are disappointed.
ThriveNYC runs dozens of alleged mental-health programs, the vast majority through nonprofits. The city’s megabucks pre-K daycare program is hugely invested in nonprofits. Ditto for de Blasio’s homeless-housing program; spending there has doubled since 2014, to $2 billion from $1 billion, to no discernible good effect.
A fierce watchdog would have piled one performance audit of those programs on top of another over the past six years; a Teacup Yorkie, not really.
Thus two of the big-ticket programs are fundamentally unexamined public failures, and nobody knows about the third, pre-K, because nobody has looked. Apart from the burned billions, how many lives have gone forfeit along the way?
The city’s co-mayors haven’t a clue (though, to be fair, that’s true of their approach to governance in general). Stringer’s lack of curiosity is less forgivable — it’s his job to have a clue, after all — and by now the relevant questions are these: Is Scott Stringer angling for nonprofit support as he moves into his mayoral campaign, or is he so bashful because he really is a Teacup Yorkie? Fifty-fifty, it says here.
Just when you didn’t think this guy could be a bigger piece of shit.
"Al, I'm a beloved national figure, and when I'm president, you'll be my Secy of State."
He’s her beard
THE ODD COUPLE---M/M DeBlob -----DE BLOBBIO DESCRIBES HER AS HIS "NUMBER ONE ADVISOR"
Insider buzz is that Blobbio is ruled by his wife---that the two work hand in hand to make public policy decisions. (Earlier news reports say Police Commissioner Bratton cautioned DeBlob not to bring his wife to the crucial meeting held to redress grievances of five cop unions Blobbio had slandered. Then.... boom...Bratton was ousted). RESUME ENHANCEMENT PROGRESSIVE-STYLE During DeBlobbio's campaign, his wife Chirlane I. McCray was billed as a writer, poet, editor, communications professional, and political figure who published poetry and worked in politics for the Clintons.
THE REAL STORY Mrs DeBlobbio loudly declared her lesbianism in a magazine article---she was in a black feminist lesbian group and wrote poetry about being a lesbian. Politicker noted her husband's campaign website doesn't reference her background as an avowed lesbian and a lesbian activist or lesbian poet: It notes her affiliation with the Combahee River Collective, omitting mention of the group’s lesbian roots, referencing it as "a pioneering black feminist collective."
The two met while both worked for the Dinkins campaign. She says she had a nose ring and wore African garb when he spotted her and was completely smitten. She never told him she was a lesbian. And later said after their marriage she was still attracted to women. During the mayoral campaign, she was asked about her lesbian lifestyle----she retorted she "didn't understand the question." The Blobbio's honeymooned in Communist Cuba and picked coffee beans w/ Sandinistas (then America's arch-enemies). The New York Post ran a cartoon depicting the couple in bed, McCray on the phone telling someone, "I used to be a lesbian, but my husband, Bill de Blasio, won me over," while her husband lay beside her clad in sexy lingerie.
Chirlane Ceausescu. You plebes may call her Queen CiCi.
It’s good to be queen.
Well, to her credit, those do look like nice cookies.
I suppose I should ask whether she will redistribute some of the cookies to poorer neighbors.
Uh, deBlasios - The Gods of the Copybook Headings would like to have a word with you both.
Yet another God damned Imperial Negro
The French had a national razor for this sort of behavior. Fortunately we are more civilized people...
Sometimes I question the "fortunately".
Well, to her credit, those do look like nice cookies.
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Like HRC and her ‘cookie making’ phase
OR
Mooch and her ‘garden’... nobody said anything when her tomatoes came up and they were in a 3 pack..<: <: <:
She’s not as ugly as Lori Lightfoot, you have to give her that
They are pretty close.
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