It looks like Mayor Bloomberg really was taking a snow day during the 2010 X-Mas Blizzard.
Bloomberg’s public schedule for 2010 fails to account for his whereabouts for more than 24 hours as the deadly snowstorm began to batter the city, records obtained by the Daily News show.
His public schedule shows he attended midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Christmas Eve.
The next entry was made at 2:45 p.m. Dec. 26 and shows that he was at a Sanitation garage on the west side of Manhattan updating the city on the snow removal response.
There’s no entry for any events on Dec. 25 as the snowstorm threatened.
Bloomberg had a private meeting for 90 minutes and a private lunch for two hours — the topics and attendees of which are blacked out of his schedule — on Dec. 24.
The blizzard left New York City buried in more than 20 inches of snow with streets impassable for many emergency vehicles.
Bloomberg was bashed for being AWOL with many people believing he was at his Bermuda getaway. The mayor’s office has never given a full accounting of where he was on Dec. 25.
The mayor’s public schedule was obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request.
When asked why Dec. 25 was missing, Bloomberg spokesman Stuart Loeser said, “Calendars show appointments only, they don’t reflect anything other than that.”
Bloomberg’s botched response to the blizzard marred his third term and prompted a report on the city’s revamped 911 emergency call center, as stranded ambulances were unable to get to medical emergencies.
Bloomberg fought the release of the report and when it was finally made public gave it the cold shoulder, saying he didn’t “bother” to read the city-funded review.
(Source: NY Daily News)
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What difference does it make where he was? If he had done a good job it wouldn’t matter if he was in Bermuda, and if he did a bad job he wouldn’t have done it any better from Manhattan.