Has a politrickster ever had a more appropriate name as ADOLFO CARRION? The former Bronx Borough President and newly minted White House czar for urban policy hasn’t even had a chance to make his cabinet seat warm before we all find out that he is as crooked as anyone would be in the nation’s poorest urban area.
DP.com friends WWIB have been posting links to the Daily News and Village Voice investigative reports on CARRION’s cozy relationship with property developers and even architects that were granted contracts on capital construction projects in the Bronx. I’d hate to think how much other stuff is dangling around from CARRION’s time as BX BeeP. This is why the Bronx has remained disenfranchised, underserved and poor.
It’s too easy for funds to go missing when large sums are being moved around. The Bronx has required so much remedial development to bridge the gap from decades of negligence and irresponsibility. CARRION is just the tip of the iceberg for this boro’s woes. His conflict of interest with a municipal architect is such chump change. There were billions of dollars being circulated through the Bronx as it became the final frontier for NYC’s gentrification.
Although CARRION escaped the Bronx just as the construction bubble was bursting he has found himself in a hornet’s nest down in the D.C. Beltway. If you remember BERNARD KERIK then you know that the microscopic laser ain’t no joke when it is trained on you. BERNARD KERIK went from flying high as a Ground Zero Hero to just being a grounded zero. OBAAMA might have to pull another Latino from somewhere else to sit in this cabinet seat. I wonder if ProperTalks knows of any responsible Mexicans on the westside?
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Did I ever tell you folks the story about our ‘Bodega’ video shaping public policy citywide? After getting wind of our video a certain billionaire mayor and teh ghey councilwoman put the Healthy Bodega Initiative on the frontburner so to speak. Chea!
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HTFU,,,That is SO not true! I face the SAME dilemma here in Europe and it is not only a regional slash obesity slash poor health care slash information issue..*Half the ENTIRE world is obese..meaning more than 25 kilos over weight…
Do you, my brother from another mother…I have your back.
hmmmm responsible mexicans? I know a lot actually since I grew up around a whole bunch of mex-i-cans, but are they qualified to be the urban policy czar? No…lol the mayor of LA has his sights on a spot in Washington but I have a feeling he’s one shady ass mexican. He put all his homies on the school board and they just voted to lay off about 9,000 school administrators and teachers =/
Et tu ProperTalks, et tu.
Classic!!! man dallas i hope you made more of these videos cause i like how you drop your message very very funny and with brain.
Thanks, DP. Here’s the Friday morning update from the News–
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/03/12/2009-03-12_white_house_urban_czar_adolfo_carrion_ok.html
It’s important people realize Adolfo is largely despised in the Bronx, except by the ig’nant (sorry folks) who only so an “ethnic” name and those he has directly helped. The Bronx Machine is probably the most corrupt in NYC, exceeding even Brooklyn, because Brooklyn at least gets a little attention, sometimes. In the Bronx, majority “minority” by a very long way and also often impoverished is like the Wild West (or Caribbean) in terms of politics. Compare and contrast life in Mott Haven to the New York Yankees for starters.
That said, I do love the Bronx people– best ever carrot cake in my life at a Jamaican bakery on E. 167th near Morris, I swear it, and even the beef patties and coco bread are outrageous too. I’ve zig-zagged all over BK to find their equal and even East Flatbush can’t keep up!
Best comment so far to the Daily News piece–
Mr Obama…………..GET HIM OUT OF WASHINGTON QUICK……………..(but dont have him come back to The Bronx)
Proper Talks is good read! Bodega is classic and I never get tired of seeing it!
I coulda’ swore this headline read: Cam’ron = Deadmeat !