Endorsements? What endorsements?
Days after the city’s largest public-employee union, DC 37, published its list of endorsements for the upcoming election, its leader bizarrely denied it had done anything of the sort.
The 120,000-member union endorsed indicted Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. — along with 58 other politicians — in the October edition of its newspaper, Public Employee Press.
When The Post called to ask why the union was backing a lawmaker facing federal charges for soliciting bribes, but not its longtime ally, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who has been censured in a sex-harassment scandal but not charged with a crime, the union put out what can only be described as a head-scratching statement:
“This process is currently under way for Election Day endorsements, and will not be completed until the fourth week in October at which time a list of DC 37-endorsed candidates will be available,” Executive Director Lillian Roberts said.
When told that the union’s newspaper devoted a full page to endorsements — including that of President Obama and Rep. Charles Rangel — in its October edition, the union inexplicably stood by its statement.
And the spokesman for District Council 37, Rudy Orozco, couldn’t reconcile Roberts’ quote and the published endorsements.
“Just go with what we sent you yesterday,” he said. “That’s all I can tell you.”