From the NY Post:
When two city commissioners decided not to declare a snow emergency during the Christmas weekend blizzard, no one got around to telling Mayor Bloomberg or his deputy mayor.
That startling revelation was one of several disclosures of botched communications and bad decisions that came to light during a five-hour City Council hearing yesterday on the storm that paralyzed the city.
The grilling homed in on why the city didn't declare a snow emergency when forecasters were predicting the Big Apple would be blanketed by a blizzard. Calling an emergency would have kept private vehicles without snow tires or chains off designated snow routes, and banned parking along those routes.
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith admitted that he and Bloomberg -- who has defended the non-declaration -- were never told of the decision made by the sanitation and transportation commissioners.
Goldsmith apologized for the disastrous response and said that in the future, the mayor or a deputy mayor would make the call.
When asked if that was a new policy, he replied, "Well, it's clearly one we didn't follow two weeks ago."
But Goldsmith -- the former mayor of Indianapolis -- insisted, "The mayor is always in charge. Any of us can get the mayor anytime, anywhere in the world. He answers the telephone."
So why wasn't he questioned at this hearing?
14 comments:
Answer to question:
Because he answers to no one.
Soon to be opening on Broadway:
Bye Bye Bloomturd!
Let's see how the next storm goes. Once is a mistake, twice is being stupid.
Bloomberg Seen in Bermuda
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/blizzard-mystery-solved-air-bloomberg-seen-in-bermuda/
What a Bum-berg snow job....passing the blame to his subordinates (who in turn blamed the fiasco on "faulty equipment").
You're the captain of the vessel Mayor Mike. Are you not?
It's YOUR FUCKING FAULT!
Take the heat like a "mensch" instead of the whining spoiled brat that you are.
Wah, wah, wah....we didn't know!
Well isn't that your damn job?
Or are your "managers" too afraid to give you bad news lest they be fired!
You were out of touch, as usual Mr. Mayor, sipping pina coladas and sunning your fanny in Bermuda while New Yorkers froze and some died!
The 2010 blizzard is an eye opener to the systemic micro-management of city agencies mandated to uphold safety & essential city services, by so-called super managers.
From the DSNY, FDNY, NYPD and so on & on...
God help our NYC Public School system for the next round of " We could have done a better job... "
" We didn't do as good a job as we expected to do ... "
Yeah we know that already !
Soon to be opening on Broadway:
Bye Bye Bloomturd!
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I heard it was called the King is I!
Or maybe...
The Lyin' King
Anyone else?
Don't forget to see a show while your block gets buried again!
NYahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
3 weeks and counting with NO garbage pickup in Astoria, with 4 sweeps at least, done in Manhattan.
Bloomberg The Bastard.
Having a great time here in Bermuda.
Glad you're not here...SUCKERS!
PS Is it snowing yet?
Bruno needs to go...useless!
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY THEY DEMOTED THE EMS SUPERVISOR? WHY WAS HIS HEAD THE ONLY ONE TO ROLL, I DIDN'T REALIZE HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEARING THE STREETS SO HIS AMBULANCES COULD GET BY. WHY IS NO ONE QUESTIONING THAT?
AL
I like this.
City Council is holding hearing on the very administration they told us justified overturning term limits because its just so damn efficent.
How much money is being spent on this investigation. We already know -- THEY SCREWED UP. Can we move on now?
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