LIU STATEMENT ON MAYOR'S STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS
Yesterday, City Comptroller John C. Liu made the following statement in response to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's State of the City address:
"Obviously, Mayor Bloomberg can point to some accomplishments after 11 years, especially in improving New Yorkers' health through reductions in smoking. But his selective retelling of history leaves out some troubling facts: near record unemployment, record numbers of homeless, record income disparity, record stop and frisks, record claims against the NYPD, record numbers of school closures, and a failed education record that has only one in five high school students graduating from college. How can we be satisfied with that? No one can say that New Yorkers of all walks of life shared equally in the accomplishments he claims as his legacy. Bloomberg's third term was a great mistake, and this entire City is paying the price for that act of hubris."