Bill de Blasio and Michael Grimm Trade Words Over Sandy Meetings
BY JILL COLVIN
Mayor Bill de Blasio today tweaked Republican Congressman Michael Grimm for blowing off a meeting on Sandy rebuilding–after the congressman accused the mayor of refusing to sit down with him at City Hall.
“We understood that he was going to be joining us at Borough Hall last week and I was surprised he didn’t,” said Mr. de Blasio when asked why he had rebuffed Mr. Grimm’s efforts to schedule a meeting.
Mr. Grimm skipped a meeting on Sandy recovery at Staten Island Borough Hall last week and instead went to Washington, where he attended a fund-raiser featuring Justin Timberlake. His spokesman insisted at the time that the concert wasn’t the reason for the no-show, telling the Daily News that Mr. Grimm had never planned to attend that meeting, expecting little substance.”
“The people deserve action, not more hollow rhetoric, which is precisely what they got from the mayor’s visit,” Mr. Grimm told the Staten Island Advance. “Rather than waste my time getting no answers at all on Build it Back or the illusive Acquisition Program, I returned to Washington to continue the fight to pass flood insurance reform for my constituents.”
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