- Got tips? Send them to tips (at) r8ny (dot) com
- Blog on Room Eight
- sign-up to receive a daily digest by email
- Advertise on Room Eight
- Login / Sign-up
Sara’s $269,000 QuestionEarlier this week, while Council Member Sara Gonzalez was out on a Sunset Park pier with Council Speaker Christine “Oink, Oink” Quinn announcing new ferry service that most Sunset Park residents will never use, (Sara’s gift for voting in favor of congestion pricing) the Daily News was reporting about her refusal to name the recipients of some $269,000 of our hard earned tax dollars that she’s funneled through a local nonprofit. If she can’t name these groups and offer why they received this money, she should resign immediately. These last few weeks, Gonzalez, Speaker Quinn and many of their colleagues in the pig pen that is the New York City Council, have fully demonstrated their contempt for their constituents by stashing precious funds with phantom groups and then using these funds to reward friends and cronies who do their bidding. At a time when there are so many good, legitimate, effective and innovative groups, schools and programs in our neighborhoods that could really put this money to good use, Gonzalez and many of her colleagues are doling this money out as if it were coming out of their own purses or wallets. It’s shameful, outrageous and despicable. I applaud Civil Rights lawyer, and hopefully our next Public Advocate, Norman Siegel for filing a lawsuit against the New York City Council on behalf of the residents of this city who are outraged by this scandal.
If Sara Gonzalez won’t show us the list (the same way she’s refused to answer a recent Freedom of Information Act request), she needs to leave office now!
Sara Gonzalez
Zap.
email this comment
This is an interesting topic. Please keep the public informed. I am a lifelong resident of this district. You have a City Council member not really serving the needs of the community You have a Christian Hospital that is far from Christian. You have a community board that is exclusionary Now this? I have lost my faith in government!
To the lady from Bay Ridge that has said all these things. Don't you have enough problems in Bay Ridge like an 8 million dollar steriod bust, rampant drug use by all those yuppies and mafiosos running around? Your attention should be focused there. Nuff said, get a life!
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Can someone explain this to me like im a 4 year old?
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. There goes democracy!
You are so right in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revoulutionary act
You guys are a riot! Thats why I love my dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
..but please, commenntators, at least take the trouble of disguising that your are the same guy who posted the article, OK?
I think calling someone a piece of dirt is a little too far. THis should be said face to face Just my two cents.
|
Hot Topics
Gov Wire
Political Update
Google AdsSearchRoom Eight Extras |
delicious
digg