Posted on 07/15/2024 5:55:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
The infamous commissioner of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) announced her plans to resign amid mounting scandals, many related to her contentious stance against former President Donald Trump.
Leading the agency since 2022, Laura Kavanagh stated in an email that it was time to “pass the torch” to a new commissioner, as reported by the New York Post on Saturday.
“My dedication to the FDNY has never and will never waver,” she added. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to devote the last 10 years — five as first deputy commissioner and more than two as commissioner — to advocating for the men and women of the FDNY.”
Kavanagh faced criticism after launching a vicious investigation into firefighters who booed New York Attorney General Letitia James during a ceremony in March.
The incident occurred shortly after James’s controversial civil judgment against the Trump Organization. “Trump! Trump! Trump!” a group of firefighters chanted, blocking James from addressing the crowd in March.
“Oh, come on. We’re in a house of God. First, uhm, simmer down,” James replied to the loud chants. “Thank you for getting it out of your system.”
In response, Kavanaugh unleashed an investigation into the firefighters in a bid to re-educate them. The FDNY ultimately halted the probe amid public outcry.
Last week, released text messages between Kavanagh and James revealed their sentiments about the pro-Trump hecklers.
“I should have called you last night, but I’ve been trying to find a way to say I’m sorry that doesn’t involve me apologizing for men who don’t deserve such grace,” a text from Kavanagh read. “I haven’t succeeded. I am sorry that we didn’t stop them and that I can’t fix them.”
Despite Mayor Eric Adams initially defending Kavanagh, calling her a valuable member of his administration, her tenure as commissioner was marked by controversy, including delays in fire responses.
“I love her style — I want her in my administration, whichever she decides to do,” he said. “She sat down with me some time ago and said, ‘I’m looking to do some other things in my life at this moment,’ and whenever she decides to do so, she will. As long as she wants to be my fire commissioner, she will be my fire commissioner.”
Critics within the city’s government highlighted her background as a political operative rather than a firefighter. “[S]he’s been unable to do what she was brought in to do: put out political fires,” a source in the city’s government told the Post.
It's waaay too early.....................
Trump curse strikes again... when will these sickos learn?
Just to rhetorically ask:
What the hell does hating Trump have to do with running one of the world’s largest firefighting agencies?
If only you just focused on your JOB!
Curiously awkward choice of words for a firefighter.
Never.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 - New International Version
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth BUT HAVE DELIGHTED IN WICKEDNESS.
Kavanaugh is political trash, and should have been nowhere near the FDNY. But at least she admitted her failures by resigning.
How many top Secret Service people will resign after their recent failure to protect Trump? I’m guessing that number will be exactly zero.
We’re settling all family business.
Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman
Romans 1:28-32
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Gotta find a fat black woman.........................
A lot of political porn stars are being called out for their rhetoric. Hope this continues
Another girl-boss bites the dust
Sue them ALL!
Now Miss Pepsi needs to resign as head of the Secret Service.
People are noticing their hatred for what it is. I hope they are shunned by every decent person who sees them.
The retiring fire commissioner is “passing the torch.”
Shouldn’t she be “passing the hose?”
Kavanagh has held senior roles on Presidential, Mayoral, Congressional and local campaigns. She was a Special Assistant to Mayor Bill de Blasio,and during the 2012 United States presidential election, she served as Deputy Director in Pennsylvania on Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. She has never served as a firefighter.
WITH IQ of about 58
IOW, she was a political hack........................
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