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‘Storm Warning for Mayor: Remember Mr. Lindsay’
It is aggravating that there is no sure way to know if a “snow emergency” has been declared for New York City and when it ends [New York, “Storm Warning for Mayor: Remember Mr. Lindsay,” February 16, 2007].
There are certain designated “snow emergency streets” in the city. If you park on them during a “snow emergency,” you can be fined and your car can be towed away. Snow emergencies are declared so the plows can clear major arteries of snow.
During the last snow storm, I called 311, but the guy who answered didn’t know if there was a snow emergency or not.
Why not have it posted on the city’s Department of Transportation Web site, with a rule that you can’t be fined or towed until so many hours after it is so posted?
ROBERT EISENSTADT
Brooklyn, N.Y.
‘Opposition Stirs to Conservation Nominee’
As I read Assemblyman Alexander “Pete” Grannis’ comments in “Opposition Stirs to Conservation Nominee,” I had to ask myself, who does he think he’s fooling?
Having spent more than 30 years in the Assembly, his record in opposition to gun owners and hunters is perfectly clear and unambiguous [New York, “Opposition Stirs to Conservation Nominee,” February 21, 2007]. He has repeatedly voted for prohibiting the possession of all firearms including banning shotguns as terrorist weapons, Assembly bill A-4471 of 2006.
He has repeatedly introduced legislation to ban all hunting as cruelty to animals, Assembly bill A-1850 of 2006, and he has been endorsed by the extremist animal rights organization, League of Humane Voters of New York City.
Mr. Grannis has no professional or educational background in environmental science or management and according to his own biography on the Assembly Web page: “He serves as a full-time legislator.”
Most outrageous of all, according to the February 16 issue of the Village Voice, the only reason Governor Spitzer nominated him was because he didn’t want the Assembly to elect him comptroller. In the article “Too Smart by Half,” Mr. Grannis told Village Voice writer Wayne Barrett, “I didn’t put in an application. I didn’t ask anyone to advance my name. I didn’t even know I was under consideration.”
The state Senate should reject Mr. Grannis’ nomination. He is totally unqualified to head the Department of Environmental Conservation.
JACOB RIEPER
Legislative Director
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
Cornwall, N.Y.
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