The Upside Of Having An Elected Official With Like Five Weekend Homes . . .
. . . is that maybe now we can get past the fiction that it’s somehow comforting to have a politician on the scene of an accident:
Of course, even the head of the nation’s largest city is entitled to weekends off — especially when he bolted from his seat at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington the previous Saturday to bring order to the chaos in Times Square. But so did Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, and he was there in Staten Island on Saturday after dozens of passengers and crew members were injured in the latest mishap to befall the ferryboat Andrew J. Barberi.
Gov. David A. Paterson, who lives somewhere upstate, at least during the week, was at the ferry terminal, too, as was Mr. Bloomberg’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan.
But over the weekend, a coy Bloomberg aide only fanned curiosity about the mayor’s whereabouts by offering that the mayor was “monitoring the situation” — from where, he would not say.
Wonderers were left to wonder -– was the mayor at one of his many other pieds-à -terre, in London, or Vail, or outside West Palm Beach? (A person in Bermuda who has reliably tracked the mayor’s movements in the past said that he did not visit the island, where he owns a waterfront estate, over the weekend.)
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When asked, “How was your weekend?” the mayor responded coolly, “It was fine. How was yours?” and added, “Any other questions that’s not a social thing?”
Of course there are so few things that mayors actually do these days beyond campaign against food additives and answer 311 calls, so what else do they have to do on a weekend night?
Posted: May 11th, 2010 | Filed under: See, The Thing Is Was . . .