And We Should Photograph Their License Plates While We’re At It

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn goes all Stephen Baldwin on Wal-Mart, making it clear that New Yorkers should continue to drive to Jersey in order to shop there:

Cost-cutting colossus Wal-Mart is not welcome in New York at any price, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn declared yesterday.

“I don’t want Wal-Mart in the City of New York unless they change their corporate behavior,” said Quinn (D-Manhattan), eliciting applause from the crowd at a breakfast forum in midtown Manhattan sponsored by Crain’s Business New York.

“It is well documented across the country that Wal-Mart frequently uses the public insurance programs of the cities they are in as their own health insurance programs,” Quinn charged. “We can’t put that additional strain on our Health and Hospitals Corp., which is working as hard as it can to take care of uninsured New Yorkers.”