“In Shorris, the mayor-elect has attracted an experienced and respected manager, Avi Schick, former deputy attorney general and respected community leader, writes in an Op-Ed he penned for The Daily News.
“Shorris is familiar face in progressive political circles, but he is not an ideologue. And Shorris is comfortable in the boardrooms of the Partnership for New York City, but he understands that the city’s population is scattered across all five boroughs.”
“He has served at all levels of government, most prominently as the city’s finance commissioner and deputy budget director and most recently as the executive director of the Port Authority,” Schick touts Shorris’ life experience. “I worked closely with Tony when he ran the Port, and while the nature of life and of the jobs we had meant that we didn’t always agree, what I saw up close then will serve the city very well now.”
Based on his experience in government, Schick notes, the appointment of Shorris as first Deputy Mayor “should be comforting to those concerned by the departure of the big-idea Bloomberg administration.”
“It is de Blasio’s city now. He won a landslide victory and he has earned the right to govern as he campaigned. Given how brilliant and effective his campaign was, we’d all be fortunate indeed if that same level of discipline and success comes to define a de Blasio administration. With yesterday’s appointments, he is off to a very good start in that direction.’
(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)
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With a background working for the Port Authority, a quasi governmental agency with an insatiable appetite for raising tolls, Shorris will fit perfectly into an administration that ran on a platform of raising taxes.
Great choice progressives. A person with a background spending other people’s money that they were coerced into paying because of a government sanctioned monopoly ( ie. The had little choice but to use the bridge etc..). Tolls that were in place to pay for a project never get removed even after recovering the costs, because the agency has an infinite appetite for spending. Welcome to the bright progressive future.