{"id":266425,"date":"2021-06-04T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayoral-candidate-kathryn-garcias-history-of-embarrassments\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:30:53","slug":"mayoral-candidate-kathryn-garcias-history-of-embarrassments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayoral-candidate-kathryn-garcias-history-of-embarrassments\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia’s history of embarrassments"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia’s history of embarrassments<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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In the increasingly bitter race for the New York City Democratic mayoral nomination, one disturbing fact looms larger by the day:<\/p>\n

While Andrew Yang has absolutely no qualifications for the job, Kathryn Garcia, who\u2019s risen in the polls in what\u2019s become a three-way race with Yang and Eric Adams, has all the wrong qualifications.<\/p>\n

A career bureaucrat who boasts of her accomplishments in various city positions \u2014 mostly notably, or ignominiously, seven years at the helm of the Department of Sanitation \u2014 Garcia compiled a track record of incompetence bordering on dereliction.<\/p>\n

In fact, \u201cgarbage in, garbage out\u201d might best reflect her DOS tenure, during which the city\u2019s streets and sidewalks turned filthier than ever. Yang alluded to it without using Garcia\u2019s name at Wednesday night\u2019s debate, but her finger- and footprints are all over it.<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s career history is full of embarrassments, from her fuzzy, blame-the-cops app<\/a>roach to crime (she\u2019d take us \u201cfrom a warrior culture to a guardian mindset\u201d) to paying mostly minority women at DOS half as much as mostly white men for similar work, as The Post reported.<\/p>\n

Her loopy proposed solution to reducing traffic congestion is to add 250 miles of bike lanes to the existing 1,375 miles \u2014 which are, of course, in themselves a large reason for traffic congestion.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s her performance as sanitation chief \u2014 the centerpiece of her campaign \u2014 that calls for the most scrutiny. As Mark Twain hilariously wrote of novelist Fenimore Cooper\u2019s over-acclaimed literary output, \u201cIt has some defects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia was more absorbed in global environmental issues than in the less \u201cwoke\u201d business of keeping streets clean. No surprise that she was endorsed by the statewide League of New York Conservation Voters, who praised her for making \u201cZero Waste her top priority\u201d \u2014 which included \u201cthe largest composting ban in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A recent audit said the sanitation department under Garcia lacked effective communication.<\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, what most New Yorkers want is sidewalks that don\u2019t resemble Himalayan ridges of smelly, rat-friendly trash outside their homes. The deterioration started long before department budget cuts last year, as anyone with eyes \u2014 and a nose \u2014 can attest.<\/p>\n

Although Garcia cited Mayor de Blasio\u2019s spring 2020 budget clippers as the reason why she quit as commissioner last September, the agency\u2019s much-publicized $106 million chop needn\u2019t have been a death blow.<\/p>\n

The cuts (which impacted all city departments) stemmed from de Blasio\u2019s failure as a fiscal manager. Still, an agency chief must roll with the punches. Garcia did not weather the battle with valor. Rather than redeploy personnel and otherwise tweak the operation to pick up the slack in trash collecting, Garcia punted the blame.<\/p>\n

As city Controller Scott Stringer (himself a mayoral candidate) said last year, \u201cStop throwing your hands up because you had to make a small budget cut.\u201d In fact, that $106 million chop \u2014 much-cited by her media<\/a> cheering section \u2014 accounted for a mere 6 percent of the DOS\u2019s $1.75 billion annual operating budget. Nearly a quarter of the cuts, $24.5 million, came out of composting and recycling \u2014 not the department\u2019s No. 1 reason for being.<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s agency was out to lunch long before then. Its failure to promptly clear a mere six inches of snow in November 2018 resulted in epic traffic jams that trapped hundreds of school kids on buses for up to ten hours. That time, too, Garcia blamed the fiasco on a more sinister cause than her own ineptitude \u2014 that the city didn\u2019t warn people to stay inside.<\/p>\n

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Kathryn Garcia said he resigned from her sanitation position due to the impending city budget cuts. <\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An analysis by the city in 2020 absurdly found streets and sidewalks \u201cacceptably clean\u201d more than 95 percent of the time over the previous two fiscal years. It was a howler that drew belly laughs from Big Apple residents.<\/p>\n

Most of us observed the rise of the putrid piles going back years. Once-tidy East 75th Street between First and Second avenues, where I live, came to look and reek like a block-long garbage dump.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t only my impression. An independent study by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli \u2014 who like Garcia is a Democrat \u2014 last fall found that of 271 blockfronts it examined, 189 streets and 159 sidewalks were dirty based on City Hall\u2019s own Operations Scorecard criteria.<\/p>\n

Among DOS\u2019s failings, DiNapoli found, it \u201cdoes not monitor daily performance of its street-cleaning staff\u201d; didn\u2019t deploy resources properly; and \u201cdid not effectively utilize or share information across its bureaus and divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thomas DiNapoli ran the audit into the department and found persistent issues. <\/figcaption>
Lev Radin\/Pacific Press\/Shutters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For good measure, city inspections were \u201cperformed from a moving car,\u201d denying inspectors a clear view of streets and sidewalks they were supposed to rate.<\/p>\n

In that unsparing light, Garcia\u2019s claim that \u201cI\u2019ve gotten up at 5\u2009a.m. to make sure that by the time most New Yorkers wake up, their trash has been collected\u201d can only be read as comic relief. But should she become mayor, the joke\u2019s on all of us.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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