Quinn Frustrated With Bloomberg?

Well how about this nugget of news, Quinn's people are frustrated with the Mayor. Boo friggin' hoo. The Times is reporting that tensions are up between the Speaker's staff and the Mayor's due to the term limits battle and the upcoming votes to raise property taxes and cut funding. Those last two things are never fun, but Quinn should have thought about those tensions before deciding to become Bloomberg's chief lackey in his unethical quest for more power.

From The NY Times:

Feelings are raw between the two sides largely because Ms. Quinn took heavy political shrapnel for the mayor during the term limits battle as she rounded up support for what became an unusually difficult vote.

The strains at City Hall could stymie the Bloomberg administration’s agenda in the middle of the deepest financial crisis to strike New York City in decades.

In closed-door meetings over the last few days that occasionally escalated into shouting, Ms. Quinn has told the mayor’s aides to back off a plan that would change how hundreds of programs for the elderly are financed, a proposal that has infuriated several council members.

According to people briefed on the conversations, she has warned that the mayor’s plan to push for a property tax increase as early as next week could encounter resistance, especially since council members are still reeling from the term limits vote.

Quinn really should have thought things through in regards to her job at the Council and representing her district before calculating her political ambitions next year. If she (gasp) stuck to semblance of having principles, such as respecting democracy, things may have come out differently. Instead, she gave the Mayor what he wanted, a chance to run for another term and now she must live with it.

Of course, she isn't the only one whining, the Times quotes the ethically tarnished Councilman David Yassky saying “There is a sense that the mayor has damaged his popularity and that is emboldening members,” which is ironic because that is exactly how residents and activists feel about him in his own district for turning his back on them. Another complaintant in the article is Councilman Fidler, a long time opponent of Bloomberg but who decided to support the abolishment of term limits through the Council, even though he thought the tactic wasn't the best way to go about it. So much for his respect of the people.

The attitude I liked best was from Charles Barron, one of 22 members that voted against the term limits legislation. In his conversation with the Mayor, Barron ended the chat with a “meet you on the battlefield.” That is exactly what many of us will do with Bloomberg from now until election day of next year.