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Bloomberg Compared Unfavorably With Snow King Giuliani
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 2, 2011
Modified Jan 2, 2011
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Just about everyone has been congratulatingpiling on Mayor Bloomberg and his administration for their excellent job cleaning the streets post-blizzageddon. But the Mayor didn't truly hit bottom until this Post lede today: "If Mayor Bloomberg had taken a page from Rudy Giuliani's snowstorm playbook of 1996, he might not be getting pilloried for blowing the blizzard of 2010." At least now there's nowhere to go but up?
The Post takes a look at Giuliani's public schedule and response to the blizzard of '96, which also dropped over 20' of snow on the city, and finds Bloomberg's handling of the situation incredibly lacking. Giuliani gave updates on the city's response at 10 a.m., 5:30 p.m. and again at 10 p.m. on the first day of the storm, followed by a late-night pizza delivery to 911 operators just before midnight. On the second day of the storm, Giuliani made at least six stops around the city to various sanitation garages, police precincts, and flooded areas. On the first day of this year's storm, Bloomberg held just one press conference, and on the second day, made four storm-related appearances.
Yesterday, Bloomberg appeared at a Queens hospital for disabled kids, where he told the News his resolutions for the new year included a vow to "work harder, make the city better, keep my waistline down and help St. Mary's." Maybe he should consider adding "study Rudy's playbook" to that list.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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