The Morning Read: September 22, 2006
Errol Louis thinks the mayor needs to "dream bigger, talk louder and invest more political capital" if he wants to solve the city's poverty problem.
The Times looks at whether John Faso left the legislature and then lobbied them on a huge financial deal. His spokesman said it wasn't lobbying, but rather, "advising on how to get the process done."
Faso also wants to cut income taxes for couples earning under $50,000 and individuals earnning under $25,000.
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi had a state employee drive his wife around for three years.
Andrew Cuomo and others rip Jeanine Pirro over the freed Westchester inmate she refused to help while she was D.A.
The number of students reading at grade level drops sharply between fifth and sixth grade, according to a new state report. Students in charter schools did better, according to The Post.
Charles Bagli can hardly believe that, "Now, at long last, finally, for sure, the new framework for rebuilding at ground zero is in place. A firm deal was approved yesterday. Really."
The crowd at this year's Clinton Global Initiative is pledging to do more than last year.
Columbia withdraws its invitation to Iran's President.
Councilman Dan Garodnick gets the Public Lives treatment.
And one Brooklyn brownstone goes hot pink.
-- Azi Paybarah
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Weird, the Gropinator says Bloomberg is his soulmate? That's sort of a troubling statement isn't it? Ugh!
If Andrew Cuomo is going to use this Deskovic case against Jeanine Pirro, then someone should ask him whether he is also criticizing his supposed mentor, Robert Morgenthau.
Remember the Central Park Jogger case? Like Deskovic, this was also a 1989 crime with a 1990 conviction. This case also had DNA evidence that didn't match any of the defendants. It also involved convicted defendants who were proclaiming their innocence.
So, when did DA Morgenthau submit that unmatched DNA to the State Databank? Never. [And Matias Reyes, the convicted murderer and rapist whom that DNA eventually matched, was in prison from 1991 on, and because he was a convicted rapist, would have been one of the first inmates to have to submit DNA into the databank.]
In fact, Morgenthau did nothing on the case until Reyes came forward and confessed in 2002. Only then was a one-on-one DNA comparison done.
What Morgenthau didn't do isn't any different from what Pirro didn't do. If the Innocence Project had asked either of them to put that unmatched DNA into the State Databank before someone had confessed, I'm sure both would have done so. You can't really blame either of them for failing to remember, when the Databank finally went into operation, that they had some DNA in an old case that never matched up. [And in Pirro's case, the old case wasn't even hers.]
Andrew Cuomo, on the other hand, can be faulted for the hypocrisy of accusing his opponent of failing to do something, and not making a similar charge against his old boss.
Speaking of rape, Bloomberg better keep his butthole tight, since he's hanging around the Gropenator (who's acting like Bloomy's butt already belongs to him)
Bloomie's new greening initiative is such a joke. Under the leadership of Doctoroff, something like a 20 person committee, is supposed to do what? Executive leadership would require comprehensive executive action, greening the rooftops or repainting them light colors, Executive orders vis new construction of bldgs using energy efficient, "green " designs and technologies, etc. bio-fueled buses and other City vehicles, cheaper, longer lasting light-bulbs, etc. Why such an "uber" committee? Because neither Bloomie nor Doctoroff want anything to get done that would change their development plans or hurt those of Ratner.
"Speaking of rape, Bloomberg better keep his butthole tight, since he's hanging around the Gropenator (who's acting like Bloomy's butt already belongs to him)"
LOL !!!
Is the mayor a top or a bottom?