{"id":5616,"date":"2020-06-10T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-approves-de-blasios-terrorist-backing-mta-board-appointee\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:05:00","slug":"ny-approves-de-blasios-terrorist-backing-mta-board-appointee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-approves-de-blasios-terrorist-backing-mta-board-appointee\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY approves de Blasio\u2019s terrorist-backing MTA board appointee"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NY app<\/a>roves de Blasio\u2019s terrorist-backing MTA board appointee<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 10, 2020 |<\/span> 4:05pm |<\/span> Updated June 10, 2020 | 4:34pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n State senators on Wednesday rubber-stamped the controversial appointment of city Department for the Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez to the MTA board.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s nomination of Cortes-Vazquez \u2014 who was the head of the Puerto Rican Parade Committee three years ago when it invited convicted terror mastermind Oscar Lopez-Rivera \u2014 triggered widespread condemnations from cops and other critics earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Lopez-Rivera spent over 35 years in prison for his leadership role in the Puerto Rican nationalist Fuerzas Armadas de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional, or FALN, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and \u201980s. One was at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan in 1975, which killed four and injured dozens.<\/p>\n

But at her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Cortes-Vazquez did not face a single question about the fiasco.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been a great role model to so many young people, and so many people in the state,\u201d said Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), who, like many senators, offered Cortes-Vazquez \u201ccondolences\u201d for taking on a role at the beleaguered transit agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for deciding to continue your service in this way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The nomination of Cortes-Vazquez also came under fire after The Post revealed she gets chauffeured to and from her job by a city driver, despite living within walking distance of the 6 train.<\/p>\n

Democratic and Republican senators also unanimously confirmed the nominations of de Blasio administration disability chief Victor Calise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pick Jamey Barbas \u2014 the former project manager for the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge \u2014 and two more reps from Dutchess and Rockland counties.<\/p>\n

All five were subsequently approved unanimously by the full Senate.<\/p>\n

Board members can only be advanced to the Senate with approval of Cuomo, whose own reps have a de facto majority on the board.<\/p>\n

With the confirmation of Calise and Cortes-Vazquez, all four of the city\u2019s board spots are occupied for the first time since former city planning chief Carl Weisbrod stepped down last April.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Bernadette Hogan<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“#NY approves de Blasio\u2019s terrorist-backing MTA board appointee” June 10, 2020 | 4:05pm | Updated June 10, 2020 | 4:34pm Enlarge Image Department for the Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez Paul Bruinooge\/Patrick McMullan State senators on Wednesday rubber-stamped the controversial appointment of city Department for the Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez to the MTA board. Mayor Bill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10912],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ny-approves-de-blasios-terrorist-backing-mta-board-appointee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}