One sign of the anger some key local legislators felt over Mayor de Blasio’s maneuver to ensure that it was his home-rule message amending disability-pension provisions for cops and firefighters hired after 2009 that moved through the City Council rather than the one favored by the unions came when Brooklyn Assemblyman Peter Abbate said he believed Hizzoner might be better off running Sherrill, N.Y., which with a population of a bit less than 3,200 is the smallest city in the state.
“It was just a waste of time,” the Bay Ridge legislator, who heads the Assembly Committee on Government Employees, said of the Mayor’s cloak-and-dagger maneuvering to abruptly move his bill through the Council June 10. “It’s a dog-and-pony show—they’re not ready for prime-time.”
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