The leader of the developer-backed advocacy group for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, the mayor’s streetcar project, is stepping down.
Ya-Ting Liu, executive director of the Friends of the BQX, plans to leave the group on Friday after 18 months in the position, but before significant planning or outreach for the project has been completed. A spokesperson said that Liu felt this was an appropriate time to step down, and Liu did not immediately return calls for comment.
Deputy director Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, will serve as interim executive director until the position is filled. Schumer had served as the policy director for Tim Kaine on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and had worked in the White House during the Obama administration.
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It looks like the lead promoter for this boondoggle embraced reality and saw the absurdity and public outrage for this stupid, expensive and disruptive idea.
Who better to replace her than a daughter who work on a campaign of a delusional woman who felt the presidency belonged to HER. Schumer's kid should be able to spin a web of bullshit to promote this unwanted service with relative ease. She seems like the lib version of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Me thinks also that the former BQX shill captain took the recent national tax cut bill into consideration too.
The smirking NYC Democrats are low hanging fruit.
The Occupy and Anti-Gentrification People really need to go after Schumer, and well as that other empty head Baloney Maloney, as well as Virginia Joe and hammer away how they are destroying our communities, and wasting our taxes, every time they show their condensing stupid faces.
PS Lets add wanna-be Jimmy No Brainer to the list, too.
Sounds like kosher, "business as usual," to me. Schumer's wife was a NYC Commissioner (DOT?) before becoming a Vice Chancellor at CUNY. Now the daughter has joined the patronage mill.
Just a do nothing job to keep the government money coming in. Nepotism alive and well.
"Anonymous said...
The smirking NYC Democrats are low hanging fruit.
The Occupy and Anti-Gentrification People really need to go after Schumer, and well as that other empty head Baloney Maloney, as well as Virginia Joe and hammer away how they are destroying our communities, and wasting our taxes, every time they show their condensing stupid faces. "
I don't know what people are waiting for... Van Bramer got re-elected with barely any opposition, Maloney will probably run unopposed again, Virginia Joe has a primary opponent which is promising...we need contested Democratic primaries again...we need to break the back of the Queens Democratic Machine
Nepotism the oil that keeps the Queens machine running.
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