State Sen. Eric Adams charged Republicans were catering to voters in the newly created “Super-Jewish” Senate district when they allocated $1 million for 150 cameras for Borough Park last month — while higher-crime neighborhoods like Crown Heights go without the extra security.
State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who funded the Borough Park cameras — “is paying special attention to the neighborhood,” said Adams, “because it a Republican-leaning district. He carved out the district and now he allocated funds to that district.”
Republican State Sen. Marty Golden responded that Adams is using the camera controversy as a springboard in his bid to become Brooklyn’s next borough president: “[He’s] playing politics. If he wanted to do something about the cameras, he could have done something a long time ago.”
Assemblyman Dov Hikind said he asked Skelos for the street surveillance funds after the death of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Hasidic boy kidnapped and murdered last July.
(Source: NY Daily News Daily Politics Blog)
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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who funded the Borough Park cameras — “is paying special attention to the neighborhood,” said Adams, “because it a Republican-leaning district. He carved out the district and now he allocated funds to that district.”
So? Assuming this is true, so what? Why is it wrong? Isn’t this what Democrats do all the time?
If the cameras were given for security reasons, logic would dictate one needs additional security in Jewish areas as bo one is ready to cause terror to a shvartza place.