Posted on 12/29/2010 11:36:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accepted responsibility Wednesday for the city’s response to a crippling snowstorm, pledging to have every street plowed by morning and then to figure out why his administration’s clean-up efforts were inadequate.
Speaking at a hardware store in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, Mr. Bloomberg said he was “extremely dissatisfied” with the performance of the city’s emergency management system. He said the response was “a lot worse” than after other recent snowstorms and was not as efficient as “the city has a right to expect.”
But he also defended his commissioners, including John J. Doherty, who runs the Sanitation Department. The mayor called him “the best sanitation commissioner this city has ever had, period, bar none.”
Mr. Doherty said he expected to have all of the city’s streets plowed by 7 a.m. Thursday. At midday Wednesday, about one-third of what city officials call “tertiary streets” had not yet been plowed, they said. The worst conditions were in residential areas of South Brooklyn and Staten Island, where the mayor said the topography and narrowness of the streets made plowing more difficult.
Mr. Bloomberg said the city had hired 700 day laborers to help shovel snow on Tuesday and planned to hire 1,200 on Wednesday. “The results have not been what we would like them to be but it was not for lack of effort,” he said.
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Never confuse motion with action.
Arrogant gay lisp elitist FAIL!
So this is why he likes illegal immigrants in the city?
Your right next to an ocean, might as well hire 50,000 of them and tell them stop the rising tide.
Of course, after Ray Nagin's demonstration of total incompetence in New Orleans after Katrina, I said he couldn't be elected dog catcher, and what happened - they re-elected the idiot.
They were busy clearing the streets/sidewalk in front of the 911 mosque/cultural center per bloomys request. /s
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg = Mayor John Vliet Lindsay
...and never confuse effort with intelligence...
I agree.
So much for his reputation as an astute executive.
Fail!
Apparenlty his salt ban applied to the streets too :^)
Bloomberg & Janet Incompetano must get their sound bites from the same book.
The ‘best sanitation department head ever”? Then— the sanitation department has always been in more trouble than anyone imagined.
This is on a parallel with Janet claiming that “ we have more Border Patrol agents on the border than ever before” & therefore, the border is well guarded!!!
Love the pic on another thread of the pickup truck with the plow on it plowing the SCHOOL SIDEWALKS before the streets were plowed!!!
I thought school was NOT in session during this week????
LOL! Gads, the guy is an idiot. He seems to be able to make money (for himself) but he’s a total loser as mayor, and an MMCF: Micro-Managing-Control-Freak.
What will happen to the guy on the orange colored tractor/plow who kept hitting the parked car—over & over again???
Has that person been caught & is the car owner filing charges??
I don’t understand why the streets aren’t cleared yet. Every single landlord takes care of the sidewalk in front of their building. That’s one section the city does not have to clear.
LOL, they’re hiring illegals to shovel New Yorkers out?
"BLOOOOOOOOMMMBEEEERGGGGG..."
I gotta admit. The only place to push snow in NYC is right over the parked cars. People would still need to dig themselves out of the drifts to get their car on the street. Then the snow goes on the sidewalks.
But at least you can beat down a path through it after that!
As if Bloomers had a choice. He got the blame all along.
obama (small o) reminds me of George Costanza in the episonde where he made the space underneath his desk into a nap area.
Does obama ever work?
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