City Politics Catching Up With YouTube
Earlier today, Christine Quinn gave a press conference on food stamps in the Bronx. I didn't make it, but a few hours later her office sent out to me a video of the event.
As a meta-news side-note, this is a further bit of evidence of YouTube becoming an important part of local politics. This has already happened at the level of presidential and and high-profile statewide races -- Macaca! -- while lawmakers in the city have generally been slow to adapt.
But it's changing. Quinn, a likely mayoral candidate, has quietly created her own Youtube channel, where her staff uploads videos of her press conferences. Bill Thompson, also likely to run for mayor, has been doing that for some time. And, of course, the first city official to start doing this, to my memory, is Betsy Gotbaum.
As it becomes more common, it will become more necessary, so I expect to see a lot more of these clips.
And here's a random prediction: I’ve been muttering to a few people that, eventually, officials looking for camera time will start proactively posting statements for reporters to upload. We'll see.
Also: The substance of today's announcement (and video) is that 600,000 households in the city are eligible for food stamps, and 100,000 of those households are in the Bronx, according to Quinn. In response, "Those individuals and their households will now get personal outreach from the City of New York - a letter, a pamphlet, urging them to enroll in food stamps," Quinn says.
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Gosh, then you won't have to do any work?
Nothing changes.
The problem is that lazy journalists will pick up the handouts of politcians. Which are all pre-screened so as not to have any objective information in them. You really can't report on something that you weren't at and that the information fed to you is biased. Even the most honest politician will only send out biased information.
My son the trendsetter! I am so proud of him. Now if he'd only get married....
Speaker Quinn has a lot of nerve discussing the budget as if she is not a target of the federal investigation. I also find it appalling that Quinn wants photos of herself with Military Veterans on Memorial Day after she stole money from the City budget by placing it under the name of a phony veterans group. Quinn committed a crime and should be prosecuted. Speaker Quinn has cultivated a culture of corruption in City Hall.
When Speaker Quinn's aide Maura Keany comes back from her leave of absence she should have Laura Popa (Quinn's attorney) direct one of her poor interns to look up the following statue: Title 18, UNITED STATES CODE, Section 1341.
The above statute is basic federal mail fraud. When Quinn's aides put a stamp on a package containing the City's budget with Quinn's phony phantom groups, then mailed it, Quinn and her staff committed mail fraud. They all should be prosecuted accordingly.
Speaker Quinn got caught in her lies just like the defendant in the following video got caught in his lies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvysdk9CyLI&feature=related
Right now it is an absolute nightmare to work at the City Council under Speaker Christine Quinn since her Slush Fund scandal hit. The majority of Council Members can not wait until this term is over. Quinn's inner circle is like the inner circle of Charles Manson.
When Quinn first became the Speaker over two years ago a blogger predicted that Quinn and her aides Maura Keany and Jeremy Hoffman would destroy the City Council with their arrogance and incompetence. The vast majority of the press, the City Council Central Staff, and the public at large has confirmed this prediction. The prediction was based on the experience of someone who worked with Quinn when she ran a non profit and gradually fired all of the competent people and replaced them with the lovers of rich donors. Quinn did the same this at the City Council, she gradually fired competent people and hired demented hacks.
Please watch the following video which is a metaphor of what working under Speaker Quinn has devolved into:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPND2-_IKYE
Check out this video of Speaker Quinn related to her slush fund scandal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hkW6YsMWc&eurl=http://www.observer.com/...
Check out this video of Speaker Quinn related to her slush fund scandal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2eIuZ-kQW8
You crack me up, "Azi's Mom." LOL.
Hiram Monserrate's got the best video of them all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwx9HEmZ7ik