Why Quinn Angers Voters
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
One morning last month, not long before Bill de Blasio was scheduled to appear in Greenwich Village to talk about the dangers of hospital closings — something he has done during the mayoral campaign as regularly as others take their morning juice — supporters of Christine C. Quinn staged a rival news conference to counter the criticism she has endured over the demise of St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Former State Senator Thomas K. Duane was just beginning to speak on her behalf when a cluster of people who didn’t care much for Ms. Quinn started to shout over him. An incensed man in his 80s emerged, began yelling and slapped two people — one of them an intern for Ms. Quinn and another a state senator.
The assailant, George Capsis, the publisher of a community newspaper, explained his derailment, telling reporters that his wife had just died in a hospital in the Bronx, far from where he lived. If St. Vincent’s had remained open, he felt, he would have had more time with her during the final hours.
The photographs of an unhinged Mr. Capsis, a fist in the air, make an apt visual metaphor for the mood surrounding Ms. Quinn, who has fallen sharply in the polls in advance of the Democratic primary on Tuesday. They speak to an antipathy many New Yorkers have toward her that is at once visceral and vague and immune to mutation.
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