Readers: Call her Chirlane McCrazy!
COURIER LIFE, SEPT. 6-12, 2019 31
Bensonhurst Catholics
slammed First Lady Chirlane
McCray for snubbing the saintly
winner of a supposedly democratic
election to determine the
subject of a statue-building campaign
honoring the trailblazing
women of New York City history
“It makes no sense,” said
Rosalie Grazaino, who has attended
Saint Frances Cabrini
Church in Bensonhurst for 50
years. “What happened to democracy?”
Congregates of the Bay 11th
Street church near 86th street
pooled their votes to nominate
the house of worship’s beatific
patron — known for her work
with New York’s immigrants in
the late 19th century — and the
worshippers came to dominate
the poorly attended polls with a
whopping 219 votes.
But St. Cabrini’s supporters
claim Comrade McCray spit
in the face of democracy and
threw their votes in trash when
she chose seven different women
to commemorate with statues
across the city.
“It feels like we’re living in
Communist China,” said Ursula
Agosta, 72, a Bensonhurst resident
and a parishioner at the
Bay 11th Street church near 86th
street. “I voted for her like I vote
for the mayor, like I vote for the
president.”
Readers had few kind words
for the First Lady online:
De Blasio and his wife are exactly
the sort of self-absorbed, selfimportant
fools most of New York
(and the rest of the USA) believes
them to be. I’m a left-leaning Dem,
and even I despise these “progressive”
clowns.
And why does McCray have such
a loud role in city government,
anyway? Nobody voted for her --
just like hardly anyone voted for
her husband, in the election with
the lowest voter turnout in modern
history. Benny from
Park Slope
It will be a wonderful day when
this Mayor and his all around horrible
appointees are gone I truly
believe that Diblasio is mentally
disturbed,and delusional and
mark my words eventually someday
many years from now when
this horrable person is old and forgotten
you will hear that he was
committed for some kind of mental
disorder.
Far away guy
from bklyn heights
Francesca Saverio Cabrini has
an entire building dedicated to
venerating her. It’s on (shock of all
shocks) Cabrini Boulevard in Manhattan...
it’s got statues all over
it. I am sure the Catholic Church
can pay for another statue of her
(how many are there in NYC?)
even with all the money they are
using to cover up their rape abuse
history. Old people really never realize
how much they have and always
want more.
Jim from Cobble Hill
The people in office in Brooklyn
are anti catholics. Today’s
Democrats are nothing like those
yesteryear.
Just look at how they support
murder of babies up they are born.
Voters should do their homework
before they vote.
Rosemary Sukllivan
from Fishkill
That will be the last time they
open up the selection to the idiots
of NYC. Religion and saints are everywhere.
Give me a break. What a
bunch of old nut jobs.
James from Madison
They won’t build a statue because
she was white. The first
“lady” hates white people.
Connie Wong
You jerks voted for him so stop
whining
Buck fever
from BAYRIDGE
Rosemary Sukllivan from Fishkill,
it’s not that she’s anti-Catholic
it’s just that the Catholic population
has diminished to a point
where politicians don’t fear them.
I’m pretty confident that if she
was in a different neighborhood
she would and responded a lot differently.
That’s just the way politicians
are it’s nothing new.
Bob from Gerritsen Beach
I’ve been a PSFC member for a
long time now. It’s a good shop. I
can tell, because I have worked in
union and non-union shops, both
as as a union member and as management
in a union shop. Several
members of my family worked as
police officers, firefighters, postal
workers, public library staff...
pretty conservative folks.
Since I joined the PSFC a number
of my fellow co-op members
have become co-op staff members
and they seem happy working
there, although it’s stressful like
any busy workplace would be.
They are paid much more than
minimum wage and have a good
benefit package. The food available
at the PSFC is fresh. That’s
why we’re all here: good food. Leftist?
Communist? Really?!? Such
language sounds very, very odd,
anachronistic even.
Person from Bayridge
End the power play!
Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened
to break up National Grid’s
stranglehold over natural gas in
Brooklyn last week amid their
ongoing war over a hotly contested
pipeline, which has left
would-be customers without gas
for more than three months and
counting.
“If National Grid is unable to
provide safe, affordable and reliable
service to existing customers,
or is unable to properly plan
so that it is able to serve new customers,
I direct you to consider
alternatives to National Grid as
franchisee for some or all of the
areas it currently serves,” the
governor wrote in a letter to the
Department of Public Service on
Aug. 27
The British-based utility company
— which operates under a
state-granted monopoly over
gas service in Brooklyn, Queens,
and parts of Long Island — announced
a moratorium on accepting
new customers beginning
in late May, shortly after
state regulators put the kibosh
on Nat Grid’s scheme to construct
a 23-mile-long pipeline
off the coast of Coney Island
that would transport hydrofracked
gas from New Jersey to
the Rockaways.
National Grid claims it needs
the added supply in order to meet
increasing energy demands, but
local leaders accuse the gas purveyor
of using local businesses
as pawns in its power struggle
with the state.
“National Grid does not have
a supply problem. They have a
greed problem,” said Coney Island
Councilman Mark Treyger.
“They’re holding people hostage
in the middle of this bureaucratic
tug of war.”
Readers discussed the announcement
online:
Cuomo and National Grid are
both holding ordinary people hostage.
Build the damn pipeline, we
need it.
Jose from Sunset Park
Within the past three years, the
cost of delivery of the gas(what national
grid gets paid for deliverynot
the actual gas) has gone up 5
fold from about .25 per therm to
about $1.25 per therm. I buy my gas
NOT from NG but an esco. There is
NO supply problem. Its a delivery
issue. The state has allowed everyone
of the increases.
Frank from Furter
It’s a simple matter of greed.
Nat Grid is not about whats best
for the general population , they
are about whats best for Nat Grid.
BTW the gas they want to transport
originates in Pennsylvania
via fracking. Read about what the
industry is doing to that state.
Mike from Rockaway
Have these people never heard
of raw foods? Why do they think
that burning fossil fuels is okay
when we’re in a climate emergency?
Freesia from Park Slope
I will blame on our Governor
more they have the power to replace
National Grid as a supplier.
If our governor don’t the job right
we need to vote them out and vote
for someone who will help us.
Sam from Bushwick
Cuomo creates these problems
- NatGrid, PSEGLI - then complains
when they do what they’ll
obviously do -- behave as arrogant
monopolists. What did he think
would happen?
Arguendo Eh
from Fulton Ferry
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