Opinion

Your Council at work

Ask not what your City Council can do for you. Ask what it might do to you.

Furious over Walmart’s attempt to open a store in Gotham — and the Walton family foundation’s support for charter schools — a majority of council members signed a decree calling on the retail giant to stop donating to New York charities.

The council also urged these charities (which include City Harvest, Coalition Against Hunger, One Hundred Black Men) to return the checks.

This “suggestion” came with a thinly veiled threat from Queens Councilman Danny Dromm that “other people are watching who [you’re] taking money from.”

In between, the council also found time to ask Albany to pass a law restoring the job protections for union bus drivers that drove costs in the city far above any other city in America.

Last year — after enduring a destructive strike — the city saved $200 million when bus contracts were put out to bid for the first time in 35 years. Now the council wants Albany to mandate “protections”?

To sum up: In one week, our City Council demands a private company not give to New York charities, tells those charities to return contributions and urges Albany to pass a law costing the city hundreds of millions in labor contracts.

It’s lunacy on steroids. But business as usual for our council.