Christine Quinn's Apology Train
 
 

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Lesbian politician Christine Quinn's desperately trying to win back her political peers.

The New York City Council Speaker came under earlier this month after the NY Post reported that the council had funneled millions into fake organizations and used the dough as a slush fund. The paper also revealed that Quinn knew about the potential fraud many months ago and fumbled in cleaning up the mess. Now, as the investigation heats up and Quinn's calling in defense lawyers, the lesbian politico's apparently apologizing left and right:

In a series of private meetings with rank-and-file members of the City Council on Monday, Speaker Christine C. Quinn kept apologizing. She told them she had blundered badly in her response to revelations about the Council’s appropriation of money to fictitious organizations.

“I’m terribly sorry for the way I did this, with no consultation,” one council member recalled her saying. “You read in the paper about people in crisis situations doing things and you say, ‘How could they have been so stupid?’ And now I know how they could have been that stupid.”

We have to admit, we're a bit surprised, as well. We always thought Quinn to be an above-it-all sort of girl. Now we think she may just be another politician out for her own.

 
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No. 1 · queerunity

booohooo she sucks when it comes to animal rights, ugh go away quinn

http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

Posted: Apr 18, 2008 at 10:38 am
No. 2 · Brad

Quinn reported the fraud months ago, when she first discovered it. She also ordered a halt to the procedure. This is a long (and wrong) tradition that was started way before Quinn was in office. The fact that she couldn't stop it quickly enough is her only crime.

Posted: Apr 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm
No. 3 · Harry

Brad, Quinn is a known liar, so if she says she only discovered it a short time ago, can you believe that? There's a long list of things she said she would or wouldn't do when she ran for office and she's broken almost every promise. Start with the rules of assembly re parade permits. Start with landlords and developers. Chelsea is being bulldozed and Quinn is raking in developer campaign money.

BTW, if you've read the papers, when the press asked who could verify that she ordered the practice to stop, she could only muster one staff person who issued a written statement and has not been allowed to be interviewed by the press.

And while the Council had always kept money aside, that's not the problem (again, if you've read the papers). What is wrong — and this did start with Quinn — is that the money was put under accounts of fake organizations to avoid scrutiny from anyone looking at budget details. before that with Vallone (himself no great person) the set-aside money was simply set aside, not in fake groups.

Posted: Apr 20, 2008 at 5:10 am
No. 4 · libhomo

I'm still angry at Quinn for putting video cameras outside gay bars in NYC.

Posted: Apr 20, 2008 at 12:56 pm
No. 5 · Roxanne

Quinn held those slush funds to control the voting process in the council. She is a COLD BITCH and needs to get out.

Posted: May 4, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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