Looks like the hot version of AOC.
Posted on 03/31/2024 11:55:51 AM PDT by Robwin
Fire Department brass ordered an East Village ladder company to remove its “red line” American flag honoring the squad’s six brothers killed on 9/11 – after a neighborhood resident complained it was “fascist” and a local lefty pol questioned whether it was a “politically charged symbol.”
The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said.
The man pedaled up to the East 2nd Street firehouse on a bicycle and told firefighters he worked for Rivera and that the councilwoman’s office “complained” to the FDNY three days earlier about the flag – which features a red stripe in tribute of firefighters injured or killed in the line of duty.
He called it a “fascist symbol” and demanded to know why it was still up, sources said.
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Why anyone obeys these communist assholes is beyond me.
We have the numbers.
Looks like the hot version of AOC.
Yet, they paint that rainbow queer stuff in the street, using taxpayer money, and that’s o.k.
No, it is not. It’s time to defy these fascists, and their orders. Hot tar on the crosswalks, and red stripe flags on every fire vehicle everywhere.
I won’t say what my next line would have been. “.... ‘em!”
Punch him in his F#&*%$g face..and knock his queer ass off his bicycle.
Commies making the rules. That’s not too good.
Col Frank beat me to it. Should have told her to go to hell. How is she going to enforce it? What NYPD LEO is actually going to show up? Make the FBI show up and make a huge media event out of it!
That would be a good start.
Gross! I’ll never understand why some conservative men here call these rat Marxist fascists “hot”. Disgusting.
Carlina Rivera represents the 2nd Council District which includes the diverse neighborhoods of the East Village, Flatiron, Gramercy Park, Rose Hill, Kips Bay, Murray Hill, and the Lower East Side. She was born and raised in the 2nd District of Lower Manhattan by a single mother who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico.
Carlina began her career in afterschool programming, working with children at some of New York City’s highest-needs schools. She went on to serve her local community, creating and organizing initiatives for older adults and homeless New Yorkers as Director of Programs and Services at Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), a non-profit focused on social justice.
Carlina has a history of bringing people together to improve the lives, resources, and well-being of the residents of Manhattan’s East Side, whether as a community board member, as an organizer, or on a taskforce that secured funding for East River waterfront resiliency in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. After Sandy, Carlina helped coordinate thousands of volunteers to assist over 10,000 homebound residents as part of a recovery network that would go on to support families affected by the Second Avenue and Flatiron Explosions.
During her time in the Council, Carlina has introduced and passed legislation related to sexual harassment, reproductive health, immigration, criminal justice reform, affordable housing, small business survival, and transportation. While Chair of the Committee on Hospitals during the COVID crisis, Carlina worked collaboratively with healthcare providers and organizers to ensure that testing and tracing outreach was being run by credible organizations, pushed for vaccine equity, and delivered PPE and food to neighbors most in need.
To expand access to safe abortion and reproductive healthcare, in 2019, Council Member Rivera created and secured $250,000 in annual funding for the Abortion Access Fund. As a member of the Council’s Budget Negotiation Team, Carlina helped secure a $1 million allocation for the fund in FY2023, and expanded eligible expenses to include travel and childcare.
As a member of the Budget Negotiation Team, Carlina has also secured $900,000 to create a transgender navigator program in NYC Health + Hospitals to improve service delivery for transgender and gender nonconforming people and funding for Title IX coordinators in public schools. She has also prioritized increases to school programming both during the day and afterschool that includes parents and guardians, and has supported community fridges in our school spaces and houses of worship.
Additionally, Carlina has won $1.5 million to bolster the work of organizing efforts to establish and expand community land trusts through the five boroughs and allocated over $10 million in capital funding directly to the preservation and development of affordable housing in District 2. She has also introduced legislation to prioritize community-led development and end the warehousing of apartments across New York City.
As Chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice, Council Member Rivera secured $63 million in savings in FY2023 through her advocacy for reform within our criminal legal system. Carlina is focused on expediting the plan to close Rikers by advocating for necessary actions, including but not limited to reducing the incarcerated population, recalibrating bloated City budgets, rightsizing Department of Correction’s staff, and investing in services and programs that build safe communities, all while centering our humanity.
She has secured millions of dollars for local improvements to services, programs, schools and cultural institutions. Working collaboratively with colleagues in government and local partners, Carlina established the Open Streets Program and has succeeded in protecting community space and cultural institutions through budget advocacy. With Open Streets, Carlina has put forward a vision for our open space using urban planning that creates safer streets, boosts our cultural and hospitality economy, and implements outdoor educational and holistic programming for New Yorkers of all ages.
Carlina is a champion of economic and workforce development and has partnered with the New York City Employment and Training Coalition and Goodwill Industries to support the Bridge to Technology pilot program, as well as supported the tech hub at Zero Irving to create a digital skills training center to increase the diversity in this growing industry.
Carlina lives with her husband and turtle. She graduated from Marist College with a B.A. in Journalism, after attending local district schools her entire life.
“Good people did NOTHING”...
I’ll bet she’d love Venezuela 🇻🇪 or Cuba 🇨🇺.
Then it’s time to go full Pinochet.
Always testing the limits like a bratty child looking around quickly to see if the parents are mad.
I bet she would love the NORKs even more.
The mere fact this was vocalized in the first place is what is a sign of a broken system. The politician bullying the fire chief and the fire chief not just entertaining the dumbness but actually sandbagging his crew and ordering them to take it down shows how broken the system is. That there was public outcry and it caused a reversal should be considered a sign of hope, but not anything resembling health. The next stage is the public outcry is ignored and the fire chief stands by the original order.
***He called it a “fascist symbol”***
Why do leftists constantly refer to the symbol (bundle of sticks and an axe) of a third rate Italian political party?
Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera
Get these stupid Leftist women OUTTA THERE!!!
Q for NYC’s Bravest: Are you men or mice...?
> Should have told her to go to hell. How is she going to enforce it? <
From what I can tell, the actual order to remove the flag was given in person by a FDNY Deputy Chief.
So it looks like the complainer called City Hall, City Hall called the FDNY top brass, then the FDNY top brass sent out a Deputy Chief to do the dirty work.
Tough to tell a Deputy Chief to go to hell.
Nevertheless, shame on the Deputy Chief. He should have “felt ill” on the way to the fire house and went home instead. Stall the process.
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