mowotlarx OP t1_je28onn wrote
Reply to comment by CasinoMagic in NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov used government email to solicit business by mowotlarx
You'd take a City council member bilking her constituents for their money personally - by being hysterical about CriMe and then suggesting they pay for her own companies self-defense classes? Really? You think that's morally better?
Fig85420 t1_je2nzap wrote
You seem seriously triggered by this news - imagine your political and religious views don't quite align with hers!
mowotlarx OP t1_je2r6h2 wrote
Ah yes, pointing out baseline political corruption is "being triggered."
The way right wing cranks will bend over backwards to excuse political corruption so long as it's on their side. While simultaneously yelling hysterically about Chirlane McCray, as if anyone on the left will disagree that she was a crook. Or that we disagree that Eric Adams is corrupt and practices crony politics.
Also, I have no idea what religion she practices but YOU sure seem triggered by people calling her out.
Fig85420 t1_je2sl99 wrote
Suuuure buddy. Keep shouting into the void!
freemrt0ny t1_je2xtjx wrote
so u are the void
Fig85420 t1_je2z823 wrote
Um, ok. Good one!
freemrt0ny t1_je33bra wrote
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you
CasinoMagic t1_je29gl5 wrote
She sent emails.
He gave government jobs (and money) to family members with no qualifications.
And then there's the $850 that de Blasio's wife "misplaced".
If we're talking governmental grift and theft, Vernikov certainly is in good company in NYC.
mowotlarx OP t1_je29rzw wrote
>She sent emails.
She sent solicitations to her constituents from her official Government email to entice them to sign up for paid courses from a company she owns. She is using her government position to privately enrich herself.
Stop whatabouting. Nothing she did is excusable or inconsequential.
CasinoMagic t1_je2az3f wrote
Well, in the light of what the current and former mayors did, it is kinda inconsequential. That doesn't make it excusable, though (nor did I say it was), nor legal.
But it's such small fish stuff compared to the bigger scale fraud happening in local politics that it's almost laughable to focus on that.
But then we don't have a ton of local GOP politicians, so we'll take what we can. We did have George Santos, though, that one for sure delivered.
mowotlarx OP t1_je2k4cc wrote
It's not small fish stuff. It's a major conflict of interest violation.
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