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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, APRIL 1-7, 2022
BXR
letters & comments
To the Editor,
Kudos, of a sort, to the hardright
columnist for his latest
diatribe, as he managed to
squeeze virtually every conservative
talking point into this
week’s propaganda fest. What
a pity that these ideologically
driven points have no relation
to reality. The White House
is assailed for an alleged lack
of transparency, despite holding
more press conferences in
a week than the Trump regime
did between March 11, 2019 and
May 1, 2020, a period of more
than 400 days, when exactly
zero briefings were held. The
tone was set when in Sean Spicer’s
initial briefing he insisted
that Trump’s inauguration was
witnessed by more citizens than
Obama’s, despite photographic
evidence to the contrary. The
last press secretary of the
Trump era, Kayleigh McEnany,
delivered a smorgasbord of fabrications
during her tenure, for
example claiming that the Mueller
investigation, resulted “in a
complete and total exoneration
of President Trump,” an assertion
that the author also has repeatedly
made — despite the the
report actually stating that it
“does not exonerate him.”
Incredibly the columnist
lauds Trump for his COVID
performance, disregarding the
inconvenient fact that the 45th
president, by his own admission,
misled the public by downplaying
the seriousness of the
pandemic and his inaction on
the federal level forced individual
states to compete with each
other for scarce medical supplies,
thus driving up the cost
and wasting taxpayer dollars.
Other inanities embraced by
the author include the failure of
the DOJ to investigate Clinton,
Schiff and the Biden family for
imaginary crimes and a call for
more nuclear weapons notwithstanding
our ability to incinerate
the world multiple times
over. He repeats the false claim
that immigrants bring disease
despite contrary findings by experts
who have studied the matter.
The hard-right ideologue
also assails the public school
system, falsely claiming that
school funding has been increased
when the opposite is
true. This notion aligns with
the conservative idea of privatization
and monetization of
education, a goal high on the
right wing wish list. The budget
deficit is also mentioned by
the ultra conservative writer,
who neglects to mention that
this has been an issue for many
years and that Trump’s tax cut
for the rich has only exacerbated
the problem. But Biden
hasn’t solved the problem in 15
months, so somehow he is the
source of the problem.
Divergent thinking is a good
thing, but opinions are invalid
when they adhere to “alternative
facts” rather than reality.
Pasqual Pelosi
To the Editor,
After Sen. Mitch McConnell
and much of his fellow GOP
showing their blatant true colors
that are racist, sexist, hypocritical
and full of falsehoods
through their despicable treatment
towards Supreme Court
Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown
Jackson, here’s a memo to them
in regard to the continuing process
and anticipated confirmation
of her to the Supreme
Court; in using McConnell’s own
past relevant words as a dose of
karma: “We’re going to plow this
thing through.”
Michael Wilbekin
To the Editor,
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber’s
appointment of former
Massachusetts Secretary of
Transportation Richard Davey
to serve as the next NYC Transit
president is disappointing.
The job requires a detailed
knowledge of the agency and navigating
the difficult political landscape
of City Hall and Albany.
The portfolio also includes $40
billion worth of NYC Transit bus,
subway and Staten Island Railway
capital projects within the
MTA’s $54 billion 2020-2024 Five
Year Capital Plan. There is little
time for on the job training to run
the nation’s largest subway and
bus system.
Any good organization develops
in-house talent by promoting
from within. It will take an outsider
such as Davey many months
to come up to speed in understanding
such a complex system
and operations.
Just like many of his predecessors
brought in from the outside,
watch how he will depart within a
few years for the greener pastures
of a higher salary at another transit
agency, consulting firm or fall
out of favor with the current governor
and asked to leave.
Why didn’t Lieber have confidence
in the ability of someone
from within NYC Transit to fill
this position? It is an insult to the
hard working current NYC Transit
management team — 55,000
employees and more than 5 million
pre-COVID-19 riders not to
have appointed someone from
within NYC Transit.
Larry Penner,
Former director of the
Federal Transit
administration, NY Region
LET US HEAR FROM YOU
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MTA’s Janno Lieber at a Bronx press conference Aug. 16, 2021, flanked by NYCT
Interim President Craig Cipriano, left, and NYC DOT Commissioner Gutman.
Photo | Kevin Duggan
Lieber’s choice
for next
NYC Transit
president is a
mistake
McConnell, GOP
treatment of
Brown Jackson
‘despicable’
More letters & comments on page 52
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