By Jeff Coltin
The coffee was hot and the fruit was soggy on the
porcelain plates of the New York City political elite. Hundreds of
lobbyists, activists and government types filled the New York Athletic
Club’s gilded ballroom from edge to edge. And at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 1
with Crain’s New York City Council speaker’s debate, the race had
officially begun. Or rather, the race had been given a microphone, after
months – or years – of furtive phone calls, backroom whispers and
scribbled notes.
One of the first questions was about terrorism. The day before, a man
had driven a truck down the Hudson River Park bike path, killing eight
people in the deadliest terror attack in New York City since 9/11. The
incident had made New Yorkers close their eyes, breathe in slow and
think: It happened again.
The moderator asked the eight candidates how they would prevent this
type of attack. We need to fight the Trump administration, City
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer said, to keep it from reducing federal
funding for the NYPD and other organizations fighting terrorism. Then,
the money line: “We’ve also got to elect a Democratic Congress, make
sure that Joe Crowley is the speaker and make sure that we get the
resources that we need in the city of New York.”
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Source: City & State (via The Empire Report)
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