The Issue: The Post’s scoop that Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez hired a convicted terrorist as a staffer.
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It’s puzzling that Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Chris Quinn aren’t calling for the resignation of City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (“The Council’s Terrorist,” Editorial, April 28).
One could only imagine the outcry had a Republican in the same position hired someone convicted of bombing, say, an abortion clinic.
Liberal hypocrisy is alive and well in city politics.
Gary Handel
Huntington
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The Post’s exposé raises some questions.
Isn’t there an independent municipal agency that vets applicants for City Council positions?
Are there criminal-background checks for employees who have regular access to City Hall and confidential municipal security information?
Is the City Council scouring its employment records to ensure that there are not similar ex-convicts on its payroll?
And why aren’t Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who have properly made such an issue about preventing terrorism, speaking out on this matter?
B. Greenspan
Queens
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If more newspapers were to follow The Post’s lead in the reporting of corrupt or questionable characters in office, we would have a cleaner government.
The left-wing media must either agree with these radicals, or at least sympathize with them.
David Segal was only dismissed because his attack on a military facility was found out by The Post. But who will do Quinn’s job if she becomes mayor?
Quinn didn’t want this hanging over her head in her mayoral quest, so she probably put pressure on Rodriguez to dump Segal.
Nobody ever accused the council of being a home of morality — now we can see why.
Jeffrey Rickey
Manalapan, NJ