The Rivera Progeny
I caught up with the Bronx Democratic County Organization's chairman and amateur videographer Jose Rivera at the Columbus Day parade in the Bronx yesterday.
He reminded me and a few parade-watchers at one point that "Columbus did not do it by himself. He needed Queen Isabella and her treasury."
Sensing a metaphor, I asked him about some other people who got some career help from a powerful patron: his children, City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera and Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera.
"They have to state their case, and go and run and get votes," he said. "They're very feisty, outspoken. They do work for it on their own."
I asked him who was the better politician.
He didn't answer directly, but said Naomi "is more like me. She's spunky. She's feisty." Joel, he noted "is more of a gentleman."
More Rivera here.
-- Azi Paybarah
did you talk to him the fact that he is under federal investigation for allegedly inappropriate financial dealings?
...he does a fair job of moving his lips and arms while Roberto Ramirez pulls the strings from overhaed.
Has Joel Rivera ever held a real job -- selling lemonade doesn't count. It's such a shame that tax payers, thanks to daddy and his cronies, are now footing the bill for a supposed public servant who heads an influential comittee on health but probably needs instructions of how to use a Bandaid.