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Mayor's highly touted Office of Animal Welfare barely functioning
[NYPOST] As a scandal exposed by The Post engulfs the Big Apple’s Animal Care Center, a long-promised city office meant to oversee New York’s pet shelter system is barely functioning.Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...signed a law last November that would create an Office of Animal Welfare — but more than a year later, the agency is staffed with just a single known employee and has accomplished next to nothing. "It is unacceptable that at this late date this critical office appears to not be functioning," Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan), the chair of the City Council Committee on Health, told The Post. The comment comes following a Post investigation that revealed squalid and neglectful conditions at the Brooklyn Animal Care Center, including dogs left without water for hours on end and filthy cages filled with urine and feces, which was backed up with photos and videos. "One of the prime functions of the office is to adjudicate complaints about our animal shelter system," Levine continued, adding the office in its current form is "incapable of responding to these current highly disturbing allegations." Councilman Andrew Cohen (D-Bronx), also on the health committee, said the city "must uphold its mandate" to ensure animal welfare. "It is concerning that over a year later, the Council has yet to see a meaningful attempt from the Administration to comply with this law intended to specifically address and prevent these types of abuses," Cohen told The Post. "With the establishment of a dedicated office of animal welfare, there would be a place to investigate these complaints with the authority to revoke a shelter’s license should the reports be substantiated." Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), the bill’s sponsor, sent a letter to the office’s only known employee, senior community liaison Christine Kim from the city’s Community Affairs Unit, on Oct. 26 demanding more information about the agency, including a list of staff and constituent complaints the office addressed. Posted by: Fred 2020-12-03 |
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