Voters will decide on Charter ballot questions on housing
The city of New York was lucky that the illegal maneuver planned by the commissioner of the Brooklyn Democratic Brooklyn Frank Seddio at the request of the City Council Adrienne Adams, to put aside three questions of amendment to the chartin of the important city of the ballot, made nothingness. Seddio, the leader with a failed Boe coup against the law, withdrew in the face of the pressure of Governor Hochul.
Bravo for Hochul, and for the umpteenth time, the hoots for the Bum Seddo. How many times does this Scoundrel Seddio do the bad thing and should we call it?
Check the record in the way he went to a substitution judge coveted in 2006 and how an investigation by the State Commission on the judicial conduct stimulated by us led directly to his resignation of May 2007 from the bench. Honorable, not.
This Seddio was ready to break the law and torpedo three voting questions dealing with the creation of more accommodation only makes its last offense worsen. We exhibited his plot in an editorial on Monday, which clearly attracted Hochul’s attention, whose best assistant, Karen Persichilli Keogh, told Seddo to cut him, according to The Daily News report. Seddio denies that this happened, but we don’t think anything that Seddio says.
As Hochul said yesterday after the BOE, including SEDIDI, certified the ballot, with all questions to the Charter: “I am happy that the election council listened to the votes of New Yorkers – including – who want to see these critical initiatives brought to voters in November.”
We will take it as a victory, and it is more a victory for the law and a victory to produce more accommodation, if we hope that the voters will approve the measures this fall. The changes in land use are not perfect because the new project to replace the pernicious “deference” of the municipal council, which we call the most precise “local veto”, is only for affordable housing projects. The local veto was therefore used in 2009 to kill a shopping center in Kingsbridge armory still empty in the Bronx.
The only commissioner in the elections to vote to reject the legitimate election measures was Michele Sileo, the Democrat of Staten Island. She should be bounded by the BOE for having broken her oath to conduct the law. The role of the BOE is strictly ministerial, and not subject to the whims of the commissioners. The voting issues were properly presented and had to be certified.
President Adams and the Council. A declaration of a spokesperson for the Council repeated the Claptrap to “try to deceive the voters to give their power in a democracy thanks to proposals of misleading ballot which hide their real impact”.
There is no dishonesty. The wording of voting proposals is in the right to bottom and voters can approve or reject them. There is no deception: do you want the production of housing to have faster approvals? We hope that a majority of voters say yes.
The choice belongs to voters. This is not the choice of the Adams or Bums speaker like Seddio and Sileo. Yes, even if Seddio fell, his will to violate the law before alerting the governor proves his incapacity again to an agency back like the BOE.
Seddio should no longer be likely to betray public confidence.
