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Is it all over for "Public Advocate"?Will the position of "Public Advocate" finally be eliminated? The recent compensation commission glossed over this. How do you increase the salary of a position that, well, doesn't do much? (The same applies to borough presidents.) If you're the compensation commission, you just simply ignore these minor facts, look at the current salaries, and raise them all proportionately. In today's NY Post is "Betsy's Car $$: Scramble to Pay Auto Bills." The Public Advocate position is just about done. NEW YORK POST LINK I hope someone is paying attention and wake up here. The post of Public Advocate is a waste of taxpayers' money that could, and is definitely needed, in other areas such as education, business, environment, job opportunities and much more....!
I wish I was Mayor or Councilman Rivera (not Joel Rivera BUT HAILE RIVERA) or Speaker Rivera (HAILE RIVERA that is) to introduce legislation to remove the Public Advocate office.
IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY......Let's clean up our City before we cry out to fix Albany, GET RID OF IT...NOW!
Yours truly,
Haile Rivera, Resident
14th Councilmanic District
Bronx, NY
I wanted to use this opportunity to propose legislation to eliminate the Office of the Public Advocate in New York City. This office serves no purpose in our government and very, very few New Yorkers know and much less take advantage of what this office is supposed to do for us.
The amount of funds allocated for this office, nearly $3 Million per year, is money that I would love to see here in our District. Imagine all the great initiatives we could embark on with $3 million per year? Just Imagine the possibilities? Betsy Gothbaum has really defined the Office of the Public Advocate: It's useless and serve no important purpose. It is an office that is wasting taxpayers money. I call upon our leaders, in particular the Bronx delegation of the City Council, led by Councilwoman Maria Baez, to take the lead role in this. If they stand for reform as they all express everywhere they are, then why sit back and let this go? Why not take the bold leadership and introduce legislation to abolish the Office of the Public Advocate? Why? What do they have to loose? Respectfully, Haile Rivera Resident 14th Councilmanic District Bronx, New York that Betsy Gotbaum is a do-nothing waste of space. However, if Mark Green hadn't been the Public Advocate, he couldn't have sued Giuliani so many times or initiated so many CCRB investigations into the NYPD's racial profiling. Public Advocate Mark Green was the only person in City Hall curbing the excesses of Generalissimo Giuliani. Which is exactly why the Office of Public Advocate was established in the first place, to avoid an overly centralized city government with an unchecked Mayor. Don't forget that. Yeah 3 Mil is a lot of money. But Haile, anybody's district could use that money, why is yours so special. But realistic numbers make reasonable debate. $3,000,000/8,000,000 citizens comes to $0.375 per person, not a big deal. The real issue is what a waste of oxygen Ms. Gotbaum is. And one should not forget her pedigree. Victor Gotbaum? He used to ply Ed Koch with $300 bottles of wine when he ran DC 37. She earned her position even if it was missionary.
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This reminds me of the Bushies staffing the DHS with incompetent cronies. "We believe this agency should not exist, therefore we'll fill it with people who will run it into the ground, and eventually it will be hard to remember a time when the agency actually got anything done, and everyone will want to eliminate it."
It's not the Office of the Public Advocate that doesn't do anything, it's Betsy Gotbaum. The NYT editorial board will spend a couple extra decades in purgatory for endorsing her over Norm Siegel. I mean seriously, what the fuck were they thinking?
Unless you're under the age of 25, you really have no excuse for not remembering that Mark Green was often the only check against Giuliani's excesses and power-grabbing. Norm Siegel could have figured out a new role for the Office in the age of a less fascist mayor. But Betsy? She's more like Mrs. Potato Head: jolly and ineffectual. Exactly the opposite of what a PA should be.