Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Winding Down
Lonely
Michael G. Grimm, the Republican Party’s lone congressional representative in New York City, announced late Monday night that he would resign effective Jan. 5, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion. (New York Times, 12/30/2014)
When Republican politicians misbehave they are forced to resign. Not so with Democrats (see Rangel, Charlie). Sometimes these Democrats even become the revered senior statesmen of their party (see Clinton, William).
Squandered, Defaced & Shredded
Mr. de Blasio isn’t going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department’s credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect. (New York Times editorial. 12/30/2014)
The New York Times editors never once explain in this editorial exactly why the NYPD is angry with Mayor de Blasio, so we are left to wonder. What did the mayor say or do? Readers with any information are urged to comment so that we can get to the bottom of this perplexing mystery.
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As with anything that has to do with NYC Unions, there is a mystery as to why the police are upset with DeBlasio. It appears to this observer to be a complicated mix of pique at his support of Eric Garner protesters, his public warning to his son that he may be the victim of unwarranted police attention, the fact that there has been no contract for the police since 2010 when the last one expired and apparently de Blasio is taking a hard line in their contract talks as they have a better deal than other unions (police always have the best deal, witness Detroit's bankruptcy) and the leader of the Union wants a contract so he can win reelection to another term later in 2015.
ReplyDeleteMy solution is fire the asshole detective that murdered Eric Garner and give the police the same deal the teachers got. Then let union leader Lynch go back to his patrols.