Mayor de Blasio - Shame on You!

Had a rough night, couldn't sleep, felt off-kilter and the fog was really bad!
Mayor Bill de Blasio

If the old french proverb which states, "People count the faults of those who keep them waiting." is true, then somewhere out there the people are amassing a rather large tome on our Mayor's proclivity for tardiness!

This past week our own Bill de Blasio was late in arriving at the Flight 587 Memorial Service on Beach 116th Street in Rockaway. The Mayor was transported to the Rockaway ceremony by police boat as it had been decided that that a police marine launch was the quickest means of getting to Rockaway.  

Are you kidding me? Considering this is the same Mayor who killed our Rockaway Ferry service only 2 weeks ago, you really have to assume that he thinks little of rubbing salt in that wound! Danny Ruscillo remarked "He cut our ferry but he takes a boat to our peninsula?  That's a joke.  And he was still late!" 

The Mayor's spokeman, Marti Adams, explained that the Mayor's boat trip was delayed because of unexpected heavy fog.  Really?  I guess nobody (The Mayors Office, NYPD, OEM. etc.) paid any attention to the Dense Fog Advisory for the morning of the Flight 587 Memorial service issued by the National Weather Service some 19 hours prior to the Mayor's boat trip.  

The Mayor's spokesman also conveniently forgot to mention that de Blasio was scheduled to leave Gracie Mansion via NYPD boat at 8 am for the ceremony but instead left 35 minutes late.

The Mayor now states that he was late because he had a really rough night, couldn't sleep and was feeling off-kilter. What a bunch of malarkey! All that was missing from Bill's "woe is me" statement was Linda Ronstadt's rendition of Warren Zevon's Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me playing in the background.

To add insult to injury, several individuals who attended the Flight 587 service indicated that the Mayor did not even apologize for his lateness.

We can only guess that we are left to asume that Mayor de Blasio, a career civil servant,  is quite comfortable in assuming that rapid transport by water is fine for him but not for the residents of Rockaway and that his time is more valuable than the time of all those he kept waiting at the memorial service to remember the 13th anniversary of the death of their loved ones in the Flight 587 crash in Belle Harbor back in 2001.

Say what you want about Mike Bloomberg but he was a businessman who understood that punctuality is the soul of business.

Mayor de Blasio - Shame on You!