By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 21:59:02 | Updated at 2024-11-23 11:52:31
1 week ago
Powerful NYC teachers union boss flunks Gov. Kathy Hochul, Dems over ‘tone-deaf’ congestion toll
NY Post ^ | 11/14/24 | Carl Campanile
Posted on 11/14/2024 1:33:59 PM PST by Libloather
She’s no longer the teacher’s’ pet.
The head of the Big Apple’s most powerful teachers’ union flunked Gov. Kathy Hochul and “tone deaf” Democrats Thursday for socking working class New Yorkers with a $9 congestion toll — a week after the election where the party took a drubbing.
“It’s not what I expected to see Democrats doing a week after the election. It’s insane! Stop screwing the working class!” United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew told The Post, saying he will continue to press his active lawsuit to stop the congestion pricing plan.
Aside from Hochul, Mulgrew blamed Democrats in the state Assembly and Senate who voted for the law in 2019 — approved by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — authorizing the scheme to tax drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street.
He said lawmakers should now step in and stop it.
“This toll is on the backs of whoever voted for it. It’s a great day for the rich people in Manhattan and a bad day for everyone else,” Mulgrew said.
Mulgrew said the tolling plan is all about funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — and not about congestion or pollution relief, as advocates claim.
He said traffic and pollution will get shifted away from affluent Midtown Manhattan to the less well-off residents of the outer boroughs.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: congestion; democrats; hochul; toll
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I thought that loot was supposed to go towards paying for the new Bills stadium.
1 posted on 11/14/2024 1:33:59 PM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Democrats don’t care about the working class and teachers unions don’t care about the kids learning.
Trump does, help is on the way.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 1:36:10 PM PST by 1Old Pro
To: Libloather
They’re more concerned about a $9 congestion toll than they are whether the kids they teach can read, comprehend what they read, analyze what they read, and write and speak intelligently before they dump them from the schools.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 1:43:22 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: Libloather
As a ret NYC teacher I have sympathy for drivers paying $45 a week to travel to work in Manhattan and more so for those who get off the Queensboro Bridge at 59th and First and make a lefthand turn to go to NY Hospital on First and 64th and are charged $9 for one block. But I really doubt there are many teaching staff woking in Manhattan schools who drive to work. Traffic is nuts, parking is worse and theres a subway station within easy walking distance of every school. I really think Mulgrew is worried over is the staff at UFT HQ paying $45 a week or being forced onto public transit.
4 posted on 11/14/2024 1:57:33 PM PST by xkaydet65
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