Posted on 10/05/2015 8:27:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
““It was like a David Cronenberg movie,” said Vitullo-Martin. “Wollman was such a disgrace. It was hard to absorb the incompetence.”While City Hall shrugged, the city’s tabloids turned the rink into a daily reminder of the administration’s inability to tame the city. “Skating rinks work all over the world,” The Daily News wrote. “To stand back and shrug is not going to wash. Towering incompetence is the kindest possible explanation.”The Koch administration, meanwhile, was being consumed by a corruption scandal involving a kickback scheme in its parking violations bureau, a scandal that led to the suicide of the Queens borough president, a close Koch ally. And the city’s comptroller, Harrison Goldin, was considering running for mayor against Koch, and held up further work on the rink. Turning the project over to Trump was a way to break the political logjam and to rid himself of the cascading bureaucratic mishaps, even as Trump released a letter he wrote to Koch decrying “incompetence” that “must be considered one of the great embarrassments of your administration.”By allowing Trump to build the rink, Koch didn’t exactly capitulate — Trump had originally wanted to pay for the renovation himself, covering his costs by running the rink and an adjacent restaurant. In the final deal, the city paid for the renovation, and the profits were donated to charity.”
A slanted view - the writers and editors clearly do NOT like Trump, nor do they support any pro-Trump propaganda, the article DOES show the incompetence of the “typical” New York political effort. As typified by Hillary's ties to Chicago and Washington and Los Angeles political works and unions and bureaucracies.
The original source of this story is Bloomie and we can only link.
Wollman Rink story.
The real (not slanted) story is a great story!
Thanks for the ping :)
This story is why I’ve been for Trump since he announced. I like Cruz but it’s not his time yet.
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