Joe.My.God. LGBT News
NY1 reports:
It’s the attempted secession of Staten Island, the sequel. “If we could be our own city, we could control our own destiny in terms of education,” said City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli. “We could control our own destiny in terms of law enforcement, we could control our own destiny in terms of how big the government is, how much money we’re going to spend.”
On Thursday, the Staten Island Republican again introduced legislation to create a task force that would study and report on the “feasibility of an independent city of Staten Island.” Staten Island differs from the rest of the city in that it’s a more politically conservative bedroom community with no subway system.
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Borelli is a relative regular on Fox News and Tucker Carlson often invites him on to scaremonger about crime.
He was last elected with 80% of the vote but was trounced in his recent bid for NYC Public Advocate, a position that is first in line to the mayor.
As for his “minority leader” status, only five out of 51 NYC Council members are Republicans.
My report on his 2019 secession attempt is here. His first attempt came in 2016, when he said he’d been inspired by Brexit.
If it were to secede, Staten Island, population 500,000, would rank roughly 40th among the largest US cities, just ahead of Miami and Raleigh.
Could Staten Island become… its own independent city?@JoeBorelliNYC wants a task force to study what secession would look like.https://t.co/1BeX4pQELv
— Samantha Maldonado (@sssmaldo) May 19, 2022
— Joe Borelli (@JoeBorelliNYC) May 19, 2022