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Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm
New York Times ^

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; epicfail; fail; iceandsnow; newyork; sanitation; union; victorymosquemike
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To: Sub-Driver

And how exactly is he planning on taking blame? Stepping down in disgrace? Or just some words which will soon be forgotten.


21 posted on 12/29/2010 1:01:43 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: t-dude

he’s still an ass toot.


22 posted on 12/29/2010 1:12:21 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

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.


23 posted on 12/29/2010 1:31:10 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: McGavin999

“they’re hiring illegals to shovel New Yorkers out?”

At this point a good number of people left in the city ARE the illegals.


24 posted on 12/29/2010 1:32:25 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: BradyLS

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.


25 posted on 12/29/2010 1:52:13 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

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!


26 posted on 12/29/2010 3:36:16 PM PST by juliej
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Fair enough. Resign. Thanks Sub-Driver.


27 posted on 12/29/2010 4:12:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Bloomberg is FILTH!!! He is every bit as filthy as Barry, Oprah,Martha Stewart,Clinton`s etc etc. SCUM OF THE EARTH, ALL OF THEM
28 posted on 12/29/2010 8:31:01 PM PST by Friendofgeorge (SARAH 2012 OR BUST)
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To: Paladin2

Yep. That was quite an effort they put forth with the front loader plow and the tow truck.

Nice work.


29 posted on 12/30/2010 1:17:55 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: ratsreek

The words retarded, idiotic, moronic, and imbecilic spring instantly to mind.


30 posted on 12/30/2010 5:37:35 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: BradyLS
"The only place to push snow in NYC is right over the parked cars."

Nope, front end loader to dump truck to the river.

31 posted on 12/30/2010 5:41:01 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Yes, that will certainly work!


32 posted on 12/30/2010 10:21:14 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Paladin2

No offense, but your list of adjectives are impoverished when we consider that incident.


33 posted on 12/30/2010 1:41:37 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: ratsreek

I was trying to stick to the most common un-PC descriptions.


34 posted on 12/30/2010 1:51:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
President Harry Truman had a sign om his desk in the White House that said: “The buck stops here.” Knowing Mike Bloomberg, he thinks “the buck never stops with me.”
35 posted on 12/30/2010 11:00:38 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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