Fourteen NYC Councilmembers Call on Bloomberg Not To Empty Zucotti Park

[Hissyspit]

Source: New York Daily News

https://twitter.com/#!/nancyscola/status/124693901092204544

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Nancy Scola
Fourteen NYC councilmembers call on Bloomberg not to empty Zuccotti Park (calling it "Liberty Park").

These traditions of free speech, public assembly, and public protest are a deep part of our American tradition, honored best of all in the civic spaces of New York City. Whether you agree or disagree with what they are saying - and we are mixed in our opinions - we believe that it would be a harmful disservice to these democratic traditions to edict them.

Please reconsider the enforcement of these new rules and work with the community board, local elected officials, and the protestors on regulations that address community concerns, but allow the protestors to remain."

Sincerely,

Council Member Brad Lander
Council Member Letitia James
Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer
Council Member Daniel Dromm
Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito
Council Member Stephen Levin
Council Member Annabel Palma
Council Member Gale Brewer
Council Member Rosie Mendez
Council Member Daniel Garodnick
Council Member Mathieu Eugene
Council Member Jumaane Williams
Council member James Sanders Jr.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/10/document-drop-nyc-council-on-occupy-wall-st

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/68705359/OWS-Letter-to-the-Mayor

[hlthe2b]

1. How many total council members are there?

[MADem]

4. HA-great minds! I am counting fifty on this list, I think???

All New York City Council Members

NAME DISTRICT BOROUGH POLITICAL PARTY
Maria del Carmen Arroyo 17 Bronx Democrat
Charles Barron 42 Brooklyn Democrat
Gale A. Brewer 6 Manhattan Democrat
Fernando Cabrera 14 Bronx Democrat
Margaret Chin 1 Manhattan Democrat
Leroy G. Comrie, Jr. 27 Queens Democrat
Elizabeth Crowley 30 Queens Democrat
Inez E. Dickens 9 Manhattan Democrat
Erik Martin Dilan 37 Brooklyn Democrat
Daniel Dromm 25 Queens Democrat
Mathieu Eugene 40 Brooklyn Democrat
Julissa Ferreras 21 Queens Democrat
Lewis A. Fidler 46 Brooklyn Democrat
Helen D. Foster 16 Bronx Democrat
Daniel R. Garodnick 4 Manhattan Democrat
James F. Gennaro 24 Queens Democrat
Vincent J. Gentile 43 Brooklyn Democrat
David G. Greenfield 44 Brooklyn Democrat
Sara M. Gonzalez 38 Brooklyn Democrat
Daniel J. Halloran 19 Queens Republican
Vincent Ignizio 51 Staten Island Republican
Robert Jackson 7 Manhattan Democrat
Letitia James 35 Brooklyn Democrat
Peter Koo 20 Queens Republican
G. Oliver Koppell 11 Bronx Democrat
Karen Koslowitz 29 Queens Democrat
Brad Lander 39 Brooklyn Democrat
Jessica S. Lappin 5 Manhattan Democrat
Stephen Levin 33 Brooklyn Democrat
Melissa Mark-Viverito 8 Manhattan Democrat
Darlene Mealy 41 Brooklyn Democrat
Rosie Mendez 2 Manhattan Democrat
Michael C. Nelson 48 Brooklyn Democrat
James S. Oddo 50 Staten Island Republican
Annabel Palma 18 Bronx Democrat
Christine C. Quinn 3 Manhattan Democrat
Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. 47 Brooklyn Democrat
Diana Reyna 34 Brooklyn Democrat
Joel Rivera 15 Bronx Democrat
Ydanis Rodriguez 10 Manhattan Democrat
Deborah Rose 49 Staten Island Democrat
James Sanders, Jr. 31 Queens Democrat
Larry B. Seabrook 12 Bronx Democrat
Eric Ulrich 32 Queens Republican
James Vacca 13 Bronx Democrat
Peter F. Vallone, Jr. 22 Queens Democrat
Jimmy Van Bramer 26 Queens Democrat
Albert Vann 36 Brooklyn Democrat
Mark Weprin 23 Queens Democrat
Jumaane D. Williams 45 Brooklyn Democrat
Ruben Wills 28 Queens Democrat
http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml

[hlthe2b]

6. thx for looking it up--- too lazy on this end tonight...

Still pretty siginficant percentage, I think. ;)

[MADem]

11. Well, I lazily asked the same damn question, but then figured

there might not be anyone from NYC eyeballing this so I did the google...

But we both asked at the exact same time!

[No Elephants]

9. Okay, about 50 council members, only 4 of whom are Rethugs, and only 14 wrote Bloomberg.

Again, our traditional paradigms don't work in today's world.

[TomClash]

13. 53 nt

[MADem]

2. How many city council members are there in the mayor's domain, there?

Is this a preponderance of the representation, or simply a slice?

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. No Council Speaker Quinn? Hah. Someone should remind her that...

...SILENCE=DEATH.

[appleannie1]

5. I don't think Bloomberg expected that. TEE HEE

[EFerrari]

7. Congress critter for the district also has written to Mayor Custer

but I can't keep his name in my head.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Bloomberg should listen. The City Council made it possible for him to run for an unprecedented

third term, allowing him to be be mayor right now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Kick and Recommend!

[JDPriestly]

12. They represent a good cross-section of NYC. Different areas

are represented. That is a start.

[TomClash]

14. Mostly Brooklyn and Manhattan

Which makes sense.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Kick and Rec