Politicians Words Not Backed By Action
Justin Brannan wrote ANOTHER article this week – this time with a woman whose daughter died in an accident – see here We know Jane Martin-Lavaud because last year she protested with Families for Safer Streets outside Marty Golden’s office. Her daughter was killed by a man going 70 mph on a city street. (See here)
A year later, we have speed cameras, but the streets aren’t any safer. It’s 1:45 am on July 18th and I was awoken by the sound of a car on a raceway with a roaring motor, but that’s the streets of Bay Ridge lately.
Residents here have asked both Justin Brannan and Andrew Gounardes to secure the streets. Yet, the politicians are not able to do anything other than take pictures and issue press releases to local papers. See here and here. Law enforcement is needed.
Senator Andrew Gounardes shared Brannan’s article on Twitter because what good is an opt-ed if it isn’t shared?
What Gounardes didn’t share is that Andrew Gounardes had the power to change this and he wrote a bill for state troopers salary instead. Gounardes could have passed a bill making penalties tougher on people speeding, but he spent time writing bills for people outside of our community.
In six months, Gounardes wrote 101 bills and passed only three. See all bills here. While you are probably thinking “WOW 101 bills!” Some are short like this one and don’t do much.
Here’s the three bills that Gounardes passed:
A) Traffic Cameras near schools.
B) A Collective Bargaining Law for NY State Troopers….why didn’t a Long Island or Upstate NY Senator write this for the State Troopers in their area?
c) This short bill that doesn’t do much.
That’s it.
Like Marty Golden, Gounardes had his staff make some fancy graphics to trick you into thinking he did more. Gounardes wrote that he had eight bills pass, yet there are only three out of the 101 that he wrote that passed (See here). That site is updated regularly.
Nothing new here. #DoYourJob
Hugs,
marlene
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