HUD official gets stuck in elevator during public housing PR stunt
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2019
New York City firefighters had to rescue Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton from a broken down elevator at a public housing project in Manhattan.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Lynne Patton, the New York and New Jersey regional director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, got trapped in an elevator at a public housing project on Tuesday, and needed to be rescued from the car by the New York City Fire Department.
Patton has been living in NYC Housing Authority properties — which receive funding from HUD — since Feb. 11, part of a monthlong stay in public housing projects to get a feel for how the properties were being maintained.
“My God, this is amazing and so messed up at the same time,” a reporter can be heard saying as cameras rolled and captured Patton’s ill-fated ride on the elevator, according to the New York Daily News.
https://shareblue.com/hud-official-lynne-patton-elevator-pr-stunt/
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“Who the hell is Lynne Patton?” Carline Campbell, a resident of one of the housing projects Patton is slated to stay in, told the NYDN ahead of Patton’s stunt. “Anything from Trump I don’t trust. I don’t think she wants to help.”
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