Posted on 08/19/2019 3:17:24 PM PDT by bitt
New York City Mayor de Blasios wife has rejected the results of a public vote calling for a statue of Mother Cabrini (pictured), a Catholic saint, and instead opted to honor other women, including two drag queens.
Chirlane McCray, the mayors wife, launched a She Built NYC program and invited the public to vote on the names of women they want the city to recognize with a statue. Mother Cabrini got more votes than any other woman (219), yet McCrays panel rejected the publics choice.
Without explanation, McCray decided on a group of people that were nowhere near the top choices picked by New Yorkers, including the two drag queens who founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
The She Built NYC project began last summer as an attempt by McCray to balance the male-female mix of statues of eminent New Yorkers. When McCray asked for the publics input, she received an avalanche of more than 1,800 suggestions, with some 320 women nominated.
McCray and former Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen basically ignored the results of the public consultation and chose the seven women they wanted to honor, none of whom was among the top seven women picked in the poll.
Instead, they selected abortion rights activist Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trías and drag queens Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, among others, making clear what their criteria were.
The reaction from New Yorkers has been predictably swift and fierce.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The Democrats honoring a baby-killer and two poofter men.
The Isaiah 5:20 world. Brought to you by Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats.
Ya can’t make this stuff up. Because you wouldn’t want to.
How does one go about investing in brimstone?
DeBlasio and his wife are a blight upon the city of New York. Are you paying attention people of New York City? Wake the F**k Up!
Drag queens and an abortion butcher. Every time I think we have reached bottom the left surprises me again. It's getting to be impossible to stay cynical enough to keep up.
Honoring men to honor women.
What a screwed up world we live in.
Really? What deviance of yours did they talk about?
:D
Marsha P. Johnson was born Malcolm Michaels, Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson
Sylvia Rivera was born Ray Rivera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera#cite_note-QueensInExile-1
DeBlasio - are they Catholic?
Were any of the other selectees named Dick?
“”The reaction from New Yorkers has been predictably swift and fierce.””
Evidently not fierce enough. WHY bother asking for suggestions if they were going to name who they wanted anyway? That’s the way to build trust, you nincompoop...There are other names that would fit her better but I wouldn’t use them in a forum.. I’m sure New Yorkers have called her worse and rightly so!
Just deface it and tear it down. The left has determined such action is ok.
Disgust - if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!
Better luck next time.
How does anybody find that woman attractive.
She’s ugly on the outside and more so on the inside.
If Obama had a brother.....
/he/she/it
My NY sister pronounces it as deeeeeesgussssstttinggggg.
UCK! I just ate!
Apparently progressives feel these are the “women” to be admired.
It’s good to be ‘Queen’ of NYC (I guess)
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