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December 14, 2017

Pam Harris Holds a Climate Change Meeting, but Didn’t Invite Bay Ridge

 

 

Pam Harris is the elected NY Assembly member for part of Bay Ridge. It’s clear that she doesn’t realize that.

 

Harris is rarely in Bay Ridge and doesn’t run many events here. She knows Bay Ridge is a gerrymandered district, but continues to run co-sponsor most events in Coney Island. I don’t see her running many events on her own there either.  

 

This week she ran an event with Bill Colton. After the event, she wrote on her Twitter and Facebook pages that she was invited to speak at the event. The event was very small (the first row contains the speakers)

 

Bill Colton put Harris’ name as a sponsor of the event (see the bottom of the flyer).  Obviously she doesn’t know she was a sponsor of the event and Colton just put her name on the flyers.  I saw Colton put Nancy Tong’s name on meetings when he and Harris tried to push out-of-district, Nancy Tong on our district. 

 

 

 

 

 

Strangely, Assemblywoman Harris didn’t mention the Climate Change event on social media or her website. The event was held at Il Centro Italian Community Center on 87th Street and 13th Avenue, so it would have been convenient for Bay Ridge residents to attend. 

 

 

Does Colton consider Pam Harris an expert on Climate Change because she lived in an area of Brooklyn that was hit by Hurricane Sandy?  Harris’ degrees are in health, human development and family studies, so I am not sure why Colton would have been asked to be on the panel.  Some of the people on the panel have been working or fighting for the environment for years and although they don’t live in our area, I recognize their names from their work/activism.

 

 

 

Harris hasn’t introduced any legislation involving the environment, so it’s strange that her name is on the panel. Wouldn’t it have been more productive of Colton to invite an Assembly member who has been active in environmental issues to be on the panel?  Harris also didn’t say much when Coney Island Creek has 200,000 pounds of pollution added to it every day. As a lawmaker, Harris could have written a bill to protect the Creek, but she didn’t.

 

 

If Harris has become an expert in climate change, we won’t know about it in Bay Ridge as she rarely holds events here. She is mostly here for picture-taking moments, like festivals or visiting senior centers. Nicole Malliotakis, the other Assembly representative for Bay Ridge does the same low end form of politics in Bay Ridge, so I guess Harris figures this is acceptable.  A lot of politicians play up to the senior citizens in Bay Ridge because they vote in elections. 

 

If you look on Harris’ website, the last time she posted a press release was in October. 

 

 

 

 

Maybe we will see a cheesy press release about this meeting. Colton loves to load the paper with press releases.  I wonder if one of the publications will tell how few people were in attendance.

 

 

Hugs,
marlene

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