![]() ![]() But the night was also prime time for like-minded politicos to join together to listen to the ritual annual President’s monologue. Brandeis who reminded that “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” And from an unknown source, “Next.”īar crawl - The SOTU (State of the Union) speech is long since gone, except maybe for the pixel visions of Congress’s contingent of mostly newly-elected women all in white. Seems a good time to heed the advice of Justice Louis D. On the other side, Amazon expecting special treatment and giveaways that would adversely impact the city or communities or give them no benefit. On the NYC side, politicians bypassing elected government representatives and their constituents and dealing behind the scenes with the corporation without notice and collaboration. There’s blame to go around for the undone deal. While initially a supporter of Amazon coming to LIC, he is now strongly opposed. Gianiris represents Queens’s 12th state Senate district, which covers LIC, Astoria and Sunnyside. Stewart-Cousins then passed her input on the deal - and showed her unwillingness to rubber-stamp the Cuomo-deBlasio-Amazon agreement - to state Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, whom she appointed to a panel that could have final say (make that nay say) on whether Amazon was coming to Queens. The three-men in a room cadre was upended in November with the re-election of Andrea Stewart-Cousins to the state Senate, who was then chosen by the body to be the Democratic Senate majority leader. ![]() Yes, the city council got to hold hearings, but only after the deal was made. As does Carolyn Maloney whose congressional district includes LIC.Īpparently, Cuomo and de Blasio neglected to factor all of that in when they decided to go it alone and without the collaboration of the city council, Queens representatives, and the local communities and organizations impacted by Amazon’s presence. And twitter, and get heard on Errol Louis’s NY1. They have the bully pulpit and they tweet. Think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/AOC, Jimmy Van Bramer, Corey Johnson. In NYC everyone has a voice that gets heard. No more ignoring local communities and organizations impacted by legislation and deals that affect them. No more cutting out local elected representatives. ![]() No more three-men-in-a-room kind of deals. But that was inevitable, and our governor and mayor, who formed an unlikely alliance to broker a behind-the-scenes agreement, were tone deaf to how legislating and business have to be done in a new New York. Civics and the City and Amazon - It happened on February 14th, but as Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney opined, “It was not the Valentine that New York needed.” Amazon pulled out of the deal that would have brought their HQ2 and 25,000 jobs to Long Island City before it would have been pummeled by New York politics. ![]()
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