Former MTA boss needs some professional erasers (oops - I mean Public Relations people), and quick. New Yorkers are not gonna vote for animal killers. His campaign is done, over.
All New Yorkers I am sure remember
how Judy Nathan Giuliani used to work for a surgical stapler company and the dogs died? (See
Daily Kos, click here) Rudy wasnt elected.
Give the keys to the City to the person who ordered the trains to stop!!!!
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Here's to your long and happy lives, Arthur and August!!
Luv,
Betsy Combier
Lost kittens Arthur and August caused subway service on the B and Q
lines to shut down for around two hours. If it was up to mayoral hopeful
Joe Lhota, a racing subway train could have killed the cats.
Mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota would have let curiosity — or a racing subway — kill the kittens.
As frisky felines Arthur and August recuperated Friday from peril on an
open-air stretch of the B and Q lines near Church Ave. in Brooklyn, the
former MTA chairman on Friday said he would’ve saved straphangers from
agitation before he saved the kittens from danger.
“It’s not up to the mayor, it’s a decision of the MTA, but Joe does not
think it’s appropriate to shut down an entire train line for an
extended period for this purpose,” said his spokeswoman, Jessica Proud.
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Lhota's
spokeswoman said the former MTA chairman did not find it 'appropriate
to shut down an entire train line for an extended period' to save the
kitties.
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RELATED: KITTENS SHUT DOWN SUBWAY SERVICE FOR TWO HOURS
Train service was suspended Thursday — twice — to rescue the kitties
from their catastrophic choice of city housing near the electrified
third rail.
A first effort to catch the cats, after transit workers discovered them
around 11 a.m., failed despite a service shutdown of about two hours.
Later, after the 8-week-old kittens became an Internet sensation,
another rescue was mounted around rush hour, and a pair of cops and an
MTA worker collared the cuddly duo in about 15 minutes. Unlike Lhota,
not every mayoral candidate would have left the kitties to fend for
themselves. Here are their cat calls:
Anthony Weiner, who happened to be campaigning outside the train
station where service was cut, said he has a “detailed
saving-kittens-off-the-track policy.”
PHOTOS: CATS OF THE INTERNET
“I’m going to have a deputy mayor of feline safety on our subways,” he
proclaimed to the Daily News. “If there is ever a kitten in peril in the
subway line, I will personally go to save the cat.”
John Catsimatidis was another furball friend — to a point.
“I love animals,” he said. (Note he even includes “cats” in his name.)
“I still miss my cat, Cottonball, who died a couple of years ago.
But, I really think something like that is up to the MTA or police that are on the scene, not the mayor,” he added.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn simply said through a spokesman
that she would have stopped the trains. Bill Thompson echoed that when
asked by a reporter.
Another hopeful, former City Councilman Sal Albanese, said, “What are
we, nuts? Of course I would’ve stopped. This almost never happens, but
when it does, we can’t just go running over kittens.”
And longshot candidate George McDonald said through a spokesman that he
would have to consult with Gus the polar bear first. Alas, the beloved
longtime Central Park Zoo denizen died at age 27 after being euthanized
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the celebrity kittens were being treated at Brooklyn Care
Center, said Richard Gentles, spokesman for Animal Care and Control of
NYC.
He added that the joyriding felines are being transferred to another
shelter, where they will receive additional care and get to socialize
with other homeless pets.
They will be available for adoption in a couple of weeks, after they
get enough medical treatment and tender loving care, said Gentles.
The shelter urges interested adopters to visit city Care Centers with
many kittens and older cats who need loving homes at
http://nycacc.org/adopt.htm.
Donations to help feline friends like August and Arthur can be made online at http://nycacc.org/donate.htm.
With Celeste Katz
clestch@nydailynews.com
