Quinn Bashes the Council

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's recent decision to force her members to use stickers to approve budget projects is the last example of a pattern of derision she has employed to publicly humiliate her members and seem more mayoral by doing it.

The public perception of the Council (thanks to the tabs mostly reporting on the idiocy of the few rather than the honorable efforts of the many) is that it is a bunch of hollering, whiny, careless elementary school children. Because of this, there are then two choices for any Speaker of such a reviled body: 1) Through hard work and loyalty, raise the Council to respectability with the quality of your ideas, and the unflagging support of your members; or 2) Cravenly join the chorus of detractors and scold it at every chance.