Village Voice - Will Christine Quinn Stand Up to Commissioner Kelly? by Nat Hentoff

Published: February 29, 2008, 8:18 pm

Tags: robert jackson, school safety, christine quinn, nyc council, joel klein, nypd, ray kelly, schools, mayor bloomberg, nyc department of education

Read original...In her State of the City speech on February 12, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn an undeclared but highly likely contender as our next mayor warned the incumbent, Michael Bloomberg, that she wouldn't stand for his proposed cuts in school funds, "because we cannot sacrifice educational quality in the face of fiscal responsibility." But she didn't say a word about what her likely main opponent in the next election, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, is doing to destroy the quality of life for students in those schools, with the NYPD's School Safety Agents and regular police rampaging through corridors and classrooms, handcuffs at the ready. Kelly will be hard for Quinn to beat: Maurice Carroll, the director of the Quinnipiac University Poll and a Kelly booster, reports in "Ray of Hope" (Daily News, October 14) that the police commissioner "is the star of the Bloomberg team every time [I ask] New Yorkers to rate their officials." Unless she ends her chronic silence

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