Mayor Bloomberg – defending Speaker Christine Quinn today against attacks over the City Council’s discretionary funding policy – called his possible successor a “person of enormous integrity.”
Quinn has “done an excellent job running the city,” said Bloomberg.
The two have sparred recently over Quinn’s support for an NYPD inspector general, which Quinn says would provide needed oversight and Bloomberg says would hobble crimefighting. But the mayor put those differences aside today when asked about member items.
“I have always supported member items as long as they are administered and checked carefully,” said Bloomberg.
Quinn also supports the distribution of member items, a long-standing funding source which has come under renewed fire since Queens Councilman Dan Halloran was arrested on corruption charges.
Halloran, a Republican, allegedly offered to dole out his council discretionary funds to a cooperating FBI witness in a wide-ranging probe targeting state Sen. Malcolm Smith.
Quinn’s Democratic primary opponents – particularly Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former Councilman Sal Albanese – have used the scandal to pounce on Quinn and call for an end to the funding.
Bloomberg said the arrest was not about member items.
“The real problem here is there is a group of unelected people who control the ballot access,” he said.
And “I’ve always said that I think Speaker Quinn, who is getting criticized for this, is a person of enormous integrity and I think she has done an excellent job of running the city. It’s not an easy job but I think she’s done it well,” he said.
I don't see how the billionaire mayor with the questionable integrity and his billion dollar slush fund/PAC coming in to defend the City Council speaker with the questionable integrity and the slush fund helps Christine Quinn in the Democratic primary.
Doesn't it just remind people of how scummy Quinn has been with the slush fund and how scummy Quinn has been in overturning term limits?
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