Harsh Words From Mayor's Daughter Georgina Bloomberg to Expand Role in Improving Animal Welfare

[DainBramaged]

Georgina Bloomberg has drawn attention for her young-adult fiction, her achievements as an equestrian and, most recently, for a pregnancy that will make her father, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a grandfather.

Now, the 30-year-old Ms. Bloomberg says she wants to make an impact in another way: expanding her role in improving animal welfare in the city, which now includes criticizing the Bloomberg administration's track record on the issue.

In a wide-ranging interview, Ms. Bloomberg wouldn't reveal exactly how she planned to do that. But she had harsh words for Animal Care & Control, a nonprofit group commissioned by the Bloomberg administration to run the city's animal shelter system.

Animal Care & Control has been under contract with the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since 1995 to rescue, care for and find homes for abandoned animals. The organization is essentially controlled by the Bloomberg administration, and that, Ms. Bloomberg said, is a problem.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324507404578592044044982944.html

[meti57b]

1. May she be successful!!!

[Auntie Bush]

2. Love people who fight for animal rights and protections.

They just have to be good people with hearts and empathy.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Good for her.

At least she has name recognition and a platform that many of us can only envy. I hope she can accomplish what she hopes to do.