Gounardes’ “Bill” That Doesn’t Exist – #FooledYa
Andrew Gounardes submitted an article to the newspaper BEFORE he submitted the bill (it’s labeled September 25, 2020). Gounardes had all year to do this and didn’t bother. But it’s election season now. See 9/25/20 bill here
Residents have complained to politicians about the drag racing in Bay Ridge since the start of the pandemic. (They complained about it in Spring 2019.)
Andrew Gounardes and Justin Brannan talked to the press about the drag racing, but didn’t do anything about it! See here and here
Drag racers continued to own the streets.
Andrew Gounardes had a street task force that didn’t do anything about the drag racing. See here
Today, The Daily News had a story by Dennis Slattery that Brannan and Gounardes made a bill. Both politicians boasted about their shared legislation.
I wanted to read the bill.
I went to NYC Council’s site, chose Advanced and under Sponsor, pulled down Justin Brannan’s name. (See here)
NYC Council has all the bills up to 9/23/20. Justin Brannan does not have a bill about drag racers or mufflers.
Why would Dennis Slattery write about a bill that doesn’t exist?
Slattery is a journalist for The Daily News – in Albany. (See here) I guess he doesn’t think it matters if the bill is published or submitted.
Slattery wrote, “Brannan will introduce the bill as a resolution at the city level.”
Has Andrew Gounardes fooled you enough yet, Bay Ridge?
This is just a last-ditch effort before the election.
Gounardes gave out a lot of surveys, but didn’t represent Bay Ridge well in Albany. Now he is racing around trying to look like he cares.
The only person Gounardes introduced that bill to yesterday was to Dennis Slattery, the reporter.
Gounardes is a state representative – no bills were introduced at the state level by him on this topic.
BUT Brad Hoylman did introduce a bill on this topic on September 16th. (See here)
Senator Gounardes is not even a co-sponsor of the bill:
(Both Senator Liz Kruger and Senator Robert Jackson are co-sponsors of Hoylman’s bill.)
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Andrew Gounardes doesn’t understand that the NYPD has a lot bigger issues than drag racing!
Everyone knows there is a problem, but our elected officials haven’t acknowledged it because they live in a bubble!
Even Cuomo called out NYC for inaction! See story
On September 9, 2020, a new business owner was shot at! Not one newspaper or politician even acknowledged this happened to him, so he went to the papers to tell us! See here This happened 6 blocks from Gounardes’ office and he didn’t acknowledge it OR DO ANYTHING!
Captain Tolson started at the 68th Precinct in June – right around the time NYC Council thought talking about “defunding the police” was okay. Here is Justin Brannan talking about defunding (see here)
Last night at the 68th Precinct Community Council, Captain Tolson spoke to Bay Ridge about the drag-racing. Captain Tolson said he could follow up with the drag racers, if he had a license plate.
Hugs,
marlene
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