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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And how exactly is he planning on taking blame? Stepping down in disgrace? Or just some words which will soon be forgotten.
he’s still an ass toot.
There is probably no place to put the snow, literally. I live in NJ, and that was one of the problems here. They waited so long a regular plow was useless.
“they’re hiring illegals to shovel New Yorkers out?”
At this point a good number of people left in the city ARE the illegals.
Well, when I was down there, they plowed a lane to clear it, and then they sent out the big dump trucks and front loaders and trucked it to the Hudson or the East River.
Also, there are usually rules about parking only on one side of the street. I don’t know how well that is being observed, but if people are parked on the wrong side, then they need to send out the tow trucks.
He is fortunately term limited out of running for mayor although that did not stop him the last time. He is an elitist phony who is too stupid to know when to stop while he is still underwater. I never voted for him and am proud of that! He “accepts responsibility” - then he can quit!
Fair enough. Resign. Thanks Sub-Driver.
Yep. That was quite an effort they put forth with the front loader plow and the tow truck.
Nice work.
The words retarded, idiotic, moronic, and imbecilic spring instantly to mind.
Nope, front end loader to dump truck to the river.
Yes, that will certainly work!
No offense, but your list of adjectives are impoverished when we consider that incident.
I was trying to stick to the most common un-PC descriptions.
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