Tone-deaf politicians

To the editor:

(re: “Bowman finds vindication, but it’s bittersweet,” Dec. 23)

Your front page to end 2021 featured two of the more tone-deaf propaganda pieces I’ve read lately.

U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman is vindicated? U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin would not vote for the Build Back Better bill because of the cost, so Bowman thinks he would have voted for a bill costing twice as much?

Bowman is desperately trying to defend an incredibly stupid vote. I certainly wish Eliot Engel would run against him.

The puff piece on the homeless shelter at 6661 Broadway was equally absurd (re: “Biaggi forum tries changing shelter debate tone, feelings,” Dec. 23). Rather than actually listening to her constituents, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and a shelter advocate dominated the conversation and chose questions she wanted to answer.

Rather than actually engaging her constituents who will be impacted by this shelter, she simply justified her own beliefs. The fact the city is trying to escape responsibility for this is laughable, and the fact that you reported it this way is equally laughable.

David Fisher

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