Disgusting. That’s what these freakazoids always do: have a “board” that gives legitimacy to their actions and makes the public believe the fiction of “public input.”
The only thing good about the idiot Bloomberg is that so far he has stood behind the stop and frisk policy. But this stupid stuff is making NYC feel like a police state.
I grew up on the Upper West Side, lived in NYC most of my life (with some periods on the West Coast) and moved to Florida a few years ago, not for retirement but for personal reasons. I go back to New York a few times a year, and when I was there last week, for some reason it really struck me that Bloomberg has made people doing perfectly innocent things (smoking on a park bench, for example) feel like criminals and feel that the entire government apparatus is focused on them. It was very creepy and I didn’t feel free or comfortable at all.
Exactly. Basically what they are saying is: "We'll listen to you say 'No' for three months and then we'll go ahead and do it anyway."