Bloomberg booed at annual St. Patrick’s Parade in storm-ravaged Rockaways

Music to my ears:

Mayor Bloomberg was booed yesterday as he walked in the annual St. Patrick’s Parade in the hurricane-ravaged Rockaways.

The jeers grew so loud toward the end of the Queens parade that mayoral candidate and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared to break away from the mayor to march separately.

A spokesman for Quinn later said she always intended to walk separately from the mayor.

Locals didn’t spare their ire over the area’s slow recovery, hoisting signs reading, “Mr. Mayor, we need jetties” and “Listen to the Rockaways.”

“We’ve been dying down here, up to our ears in muck trying to rebuild, get back to a regular life,” one heckler told The Post.

“For the politicians to come down here and try to take our celebration and make it their thing . . . it’s disgusting.”  (continue at NewYorkPost)

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Comments

[GoneWithTheWind]

As much as I dislike Bloomberg and would love to pile on, it appears to me this is all about the "free stuff" and not about the responsibilites or duties of the federal or state government. I do believe the local governments should never have allowed these homes to be built in what was clearly flood zones. Once the disaster happened the responsibility for repair or payment for losses was between the insurance company and the homeowner. The state and local governments have a responsibility to repair the infrastructure BUT in fact should have declared the land unfit for inhabitation and paid each homeowner a specific amount to take back the land and convert it back to beach or marsh or lowlands. Ditto for New Orleans. Building below sea level in a hurricane prone site is crazy and stupid.

[Susan Benton]

AMEN to that - it has not happened in South Florida yet, but there the builders contribute to the campaign funds of the politicans. So these idiots keep building. No way I would ever invest in property in South Florida. It wasn't meant for such a large population. In fact Miami Beach is nothing but a sand bar but some houses built even as early as the 1940s are BELOW sea level.

By the way, what's with holding the St. Patrick's Day parade so early? I can understand holding it on the week-end before or after, or even the day before which this year is a Saturday. But March 2?

[chavah]

What is it with these people? I don't know why anyone votes for Nanny Bloomberg (or the NY governor for that matter). And why they hell they stay. But I'd prefer they stay there than to bring their stupidity to the red states.