NY Daily News
NYC Council members who voted against this year’s budget — which
activists decried as failing to go far enough on police reform — got the
short end of the stick on funding for their districts from Council
Speaker Corey Johnson, the Daily News has found.
The 17 “no” votes each received an average of seven times less discretionary and capital funding from Johnson than 30 “yes” votes.
The more than $300 million in cash, which is buried in budget documents, goes to everything from local nonprofits to school auditoriums and is seen as a way for the speaker to reward allies and punish foes.
As the controversial budget passed at the end of June, Johnson took an apologetic tone. He noted shortcomings in answering demands that arose from recent anti-police-brutality protests sparked by the May 25 death of Black Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.
“To everyone who is disappointed that we did not go farther ... I am disappointed, as well,” he said.
“But this budget process involves the mayor, who was not budging more than what we got, and 49 other Council members currently, many of whom were not open or supportive to the kind of cuts that I was pushing for.”
However, members who voted in favor of the budget received the biggest allocations from Johnson.
Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) got $21,697,000; Councilman Mark
Treyger (D-Brooklyn), $18,395,000; and Council Majority Leader Laurie
Cumbo (D-Brooklyn), $16,025,000.
The rebels, many of whose stances were known as Johnson’s office finalized the budget in the days before the vote, received far less. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Queens) got $736,000; Councilwomen Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan) and Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan), $225,000 each; and Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), $125,000. Councilman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn) got a big fat zero from Johnson, though his name was on one line item shared with Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn).
14 comments:
What kind of "budget" is out of whack by 20 billion dollars? The NYC budget is a total farce just like the election year Scamdemic.
This has to stop. These people have far too much control over innocent communities and expect all of us to grovel before them.
This has to stop. People from the short changed communities should act up whenever he is in front of the cameras calling him out for being petty and peevish.
Would make great headlines on the Post the next day was well as getting savaged in political blogs. A few doses of that and these primadonnas would start to behave.
You Liberals in NYC should just go ahead and eliminate the NYPD, you'd be doing them a favor. Then you could let the "parolees" run your law enforcement. Just be sure that when you all bail out of your insane asylum, you run to another blue state.
"— which activists decried as failing to go far enough on police reform —"
Unless the conversation on police reform involves the propensity of Black and brown communities towards violent crime (minus Hindu Indians and such), it's not an adult discussion and does not have to be taken seriously. This is not an endorsement of the behavior outlined in the article, ofc.
He is a piece of crap and although we are stuck with deBozo for another year, CoJo is the one we need to be focusing on as he is literally deBozo 2.0 and if he were elected mayor, the city might never return from the current mess it’s in. Thankfully, due to this type of crap mentioned in the article, his followers are growing tired of his BS and turning on him. We just need to make sure things keep going that way and if we’re really lucky, he will move back to Massachusetts where he came from (oh yea, just like deBozo!)
The way this city is run is a disgrace. When can we have a strong non-Democrat-machine candidate to vote for? We're still being Tweeded!
God help us if he should become mayor😩
So much of savvy NY.
The politics in this city is a disgrace but its something that is squarely laid at the feet of its residents.
I shared the original story (first reported in the Daily News iirc) with everyone. I hope people don't have short memories when it comes to him and his mayoral run.
CoJo is the second coming of de Balsio. We can't let him win. A CoJo mayoral victory would destroy whatever identity is left of the neighborhoods that survived Bloomberg and de Blasio.
AOC and her crew could kills this Crap. Enough of the Machine and this rouge pol.
Time for an uprising.
Cojo will be worse than DeBlasio. But he's the next mayor. You know if he's the one on Row A. you'll be voting for him. Admit it.
Yes, CoJo will be the next NYC mayor because the a-hole voters hold virtue signaling above competent leadership. You'll have to wait until 2025 to get a Republican but of course by then the city will be a steaming pile.
If Cats doesn't pull it off this time, there will NEVER be another Republican mayor of NYC.
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