’09 Candidate David Pechefsky’s NY Times Op-Ed
The Green Party of Brooklyn is proud to announce the New York Times has published an incisive op-ed by 2009 GPBK city council candidate and Park Slope Green, David Pechefsky!
“… the council members inaugurated this month have joined a body whose governance structure is hardly more democratic than a high school student council’s — where the principal calls the shots.
Ultimately, all City Council decisions are made by the speaker and the speaker’s staff. The speaker controls which members get to sit on which committees and who heads those committees, what legislation comes up for a vote, the hiring and firing of the 250-plus central staff and the money that members get to dole out to their districts.”
Click here to read David’s op-ed, “Bringing Democracy To New York”, in its entirety.
