''Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg admitted on Wednesday that his administration’s response to the blizzard that buried New York this week had been inadequate....''
Speaking at a hardware depot in Hunts Point, the Bronx, the mayor said he was “extremely dissatisfied” with the performance of the city’s emergency management system. He said the reaction to the snow as it accumulated was “a lot worse” than after other recent snowstorms and was not as efficient as “the city has a right to expect.”
Read the full article on The New York Times : Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm.
Here are some critics of the Mayor's ''snow job'' in the aftermath of the post-Christmas blizzard :
- ''Lucky for King Mike Bloomberg, the press does not treat him the way they treated mayor John Lindsay,'' wrote Suzannah B. Troy.
- ''This is a SNOW JOB and there is no accountability, only excuses,'' wrote Bob Friedrich, President of the Glen Oaks Village, on the Queens Crap blog.
- ''40 Years Ago It Was The Lindsay Snow Storm, Today the Media Kid Gloves Shields Bloomberg From Blame,'' was the headline on True News From Change blog.
