Monday, May 21, 2012

Crowley caught lying about school funding

From Queens Politics:

Elizabeth Crowley wants you to believe that she was the one that secured the resources to design, develop, and implement the new schools within her Council District.

As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all across Queens to curry favor with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6th District, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she’s taking credit for schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the City Council.

“Elizabeth Crowley fought for the resources to open four new public schools to relieve overcrowding in her City Council District,” according to her campaign mail.

Her spokesman, Eric Yun, indicated that the “Metropolitan High School site was funded by Elizabeth”, but a check of District Education sources and community leaders indicate that the development of this site goes back to 2001, during the days of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Those in the community clearly recall Forest City Ratner was going to place a 35 multiplex movie theater. The community and its elected officials were adamantly opposed and the site was eventually turned over to the Department of Education for an 8 acre educational complex.

Who really fought for the funding?

District 24 Community Education Council president Nick Comaianni said it wasn’t Liz.

According to Comaianni,

“It [the funding] came from CEC24 that lobbied the Chancellor to get as much money to deal with the overcrowding. These schools go back to the capital budget in 2005, we had 3,600 seats and we lobbied for an extra 3,000 seats and we got it with the help of Councilman Gallagher.”

(Btw: Crowley’s spokesperson did not even realize that the Metropolitan Campus is NOT within her Council District it is actually in the 29th District occupied by Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz. To be fair we should mention that the leader in that high school fight was Councilwoman Melinda Katz.)

The second school Elizabeth is falsely asserting she delivered is the new Maspeth High School which hasn’t even opened its doors. This project first appeared in the 2005 Capital Plan four years before Elizabeth was sworn into office. Oddly this school was the subject of great debate and many in the community opposed the construction. Elizabeth told the Daily News that she would “oppose this development if the school were not locally zoned.”

Yun contacted us after his initial quotes to retract his statement. Yun said he had “misspoke” and that Crowley fought to keep local zoning and construction, which did in fact occur before her election into office. He said two of the four schools mentioned in Crowley’s literature were schools in Richmond Hill. Richmond Hill is outside the 6th Congressional District.

Yun initially indicated two additional schools were elementary schools, but couldn’t name them. Checking the district, the only three schools to be developed were PS113 and PS128 and PS49. Does Elizabeth really believe this to be true? Does she believe that she fought for those resources? How do you fight for something that’s already in the budget? All of the aforementioned schools were under construction well prior to her election!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congresswoman--Makes total sense Queens voters will put another backstabbing crook Democrat in congress ?

Based on her record and recent "speech coaching" (plagiarism) she's more qualified giving happy endings at some strip joint.
She also appears very confused at every event.
Nice family legacy these people have

Anonymous said...

Why do the articles on that website have so many punctuation and sentence-level errors?

Anonymous said...

Crowley can not lose now . The democrat congressional N.Y. delegation will fit right in with the Obamunist masters of deceit in D.C.

Anonymous said...

Her lips are made for lying,
as well as for......!

Liz is a total lip service gal!

Anonymous said...

Who the hell cares about
minor punctuation, etc. errors?

Are you some kind of nit-picking grade school teacher?

Proper conveyance of the message
is what really matters here.

You want dry
and dusty "perfection" fella?

Then open up a dictionary
and knock yourself out!

Anonymous said...

So how about Lancman, then? His people are knocking on doors all around Liz's district. She could lose in her own district, a deserving loss for the spoiler that she is.

Anonymous said...

I'm in Crowley's district and Lanceman knocked on my door a few weeks ago. We only spoke for a few minutes, but he was certainly earnest and energetic.

Ned said...

"Why do the articles on that website have so many punctuation and sentence-level errors?"

Because most people are on smartphones and don't have speech writers, publicists, proof editors and coaches to write their material for them.

Apparently Crowley juggles and spins so many lies at once she needs not only a coach but magic teleprompter contact lenses and wireless in-ear monitors to get get her bullshit straight.
-Go break her balls since she apparently has at least 1 big set of them.

People should post transcripts of all this in Spanish and post it in her constituents hoods and websights. This way "her people" can see what they really been buying.
Crowley appears like Lindsay Lohan in court with her crooked lawyer doing a "Ralph Kramden" homina,homina,homina,homina,homina,homina in some of that video

Anonymous said...

Crowley can't lead she can only campaign. It's amazing how little talent this woman has.

Anonymous said...

This woman has an overabundance
of talent between her ears.

Uh...and we're not talking about her
gray matter.

Just ask Brian Mc Laughlin.

Brian said...

Are you talkin' to me?

Well, when it "comes" to that,
I give Liz a 5 star review.

Anonymous said...

I think she is pretty hot

got my vote