I try not to be too judgmental of Bushwick politicians. After all, this is a town that seems to constantly teeter on the brink of xenophobia, especially when it comes to criticism. I wasn't born here (and I'm white) so that makes me doubly suspect. Yet the shadiness of one Bushwick pol, Vito Lopez seems to just keep getting shadier. At first I just didn't like the look on his face. Vito is a state-assemblyman whose website is updated barely once a month. That's a bad sign. Then later I learned that he was chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic committee. That's another bad sign. The committee is open to the public and has a small caucus of county delegates. This might all seem nice and democratic, until you realize that the committee meets once ever two years. At this years meeting Lopez's people literally read from scripts and then shut down the meeting before anyone else could speak. Now I read this in the Daily News. It seems Lopez is being accused of trying to strong arm his brother-in-law into a better paying position at the MTA. The Assembly is sweeping it under the rug. Since the agency didn't give the kid the job no harm no foul. But this kind of nepotism isn't good for Brooklyn and it isn't good for Democracy. Maybe Bushwick ought to be more open to criticism after all.
Daily News report of MTA job ploy has New York politicians staying silent
BYPETE DONOHUE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, May 11th 2009, 4:00 AM
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