The job of Borough President often is equal parts cheerleader and advocate. In Staten Island, there is a long tradition of using the job to portray your borough as the forgotten one in the city, which as a result gets perpetually screwed.
Jimmy Oddo is perfectly capable of dancing those steps, as he did in April, three weeks into the teeth of the coronavirus that prompted much of the city to shut down, when he said on NY1's "Inside City Hall" that his borough was coping with the rapid spread of infection "with no help from the City of New York in terms of staffing" at its two privately run hospitals.
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