Mayor de Blasio dismissed as “ridiculous” efforts to mount a ballot referendum that would force the city to investigate the collapse of 7 World Trade Center on 9/11.
It’s the second try to get on the ballot by the NYC Coalition for Accountability Now, which is funded in part by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
“From what I’ve heard of it, it’s absolutely ridiculous and it’s inappropriate,” de Blasio said Thursday at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn. “And for all the suffering that went on on 9/11 and since, it seems to me this is a very insensitive and inappropriate action.”
If at least 30,000 of the 67,000 signatures submitted by the group are declared legitimate, the City Council will have to decide whether to add the issue to the November ballot.
Even if the Council rejects the proposal, however, the group could still force a referendum by gathering an additional 15,000 signatures.
“Certainly we’re going work with the City Council and I believe the City Council will share our view that this should never be on the ballot,” de Blasio said.