The Politicker

Quinn on Rent Guidelines Board: 'Predictable and Silly'

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a former housing advocate, is no fan of the Rent Guidelines Board. The panel convenes every year to set the amount that landlords can raise rents on rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartment.

The event has been known to draw outrage from critics, but that does little to affect the actual decision-making process.

In prepared remarks Quinn is expected to make before the group tomorrow, which I was able to see in advance, that's pretty much what the speaker says:

“The R.G.B. has become a sideshow, a predictable and silly display that holds no regard either for the residents or their circumstances."

Quinn is also expected to make the case for reforming the R.G.B., a topic addressed in a bill championed by State Senator Tom Duane.

 

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Concerned Voter (not verified) says:

Speaker Quinn and her aides have destroyed the City Council with their massive culture of corruption. Quinn stole taxpayer money to the tune of over ONE BILLION DOLLARS and she has the nerve to say she is a "housing advocate." Please watch the following video to see Quinn while reporters ask her about the slush fund scandal and about the phantom groups that she used to hide taxpayer money:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hkW6YsMWc&eurl=http://www.observer.com/...

250 Broadway (not verified) says:

Speaker Quinn filed a false instrument, namely the city budget, and should be arrested for filing false instrument. Federal Prosecutors should also explore a mail fraud case against Quinn and her staff because when Quinn's staff placed a stamp on a copy of the City Budget and placed it in the mail stream, they all committed basic federal mail fraud. Please watch the following video of a Doctor who committed a crime and thought he was above the law, just like Speaker Quinn and her staff think that they are above the law:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRT1osIIoxY

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