New York taxpayers are getting flat-out robbed by lazy, overpaid politicians who can\u2019t even be bothered to show up for work.<\/p>\n
State lawmakers and City Council members scored massive pay hikes in recent years on the promise of being \u201cfull time\u201d public servants \u2014 which makes their routine no-shows<\/a> all the more infuriating.<\/p>\n The 10 worst attendance offenders in Albany skipped out on 442 votes combined \u2014 each blowing off more than 37% of the votes \u2014 while pocketing cushy six-figure, taxpayer-funded salaries.<\/p>\n Four state lawmakers didn\u2019t even bother to set foot in the Albany Capitol once this past session, hiding behind remote-voting rules (years after the COVID emergency ended) to shirk basic duty.<\/p>\n Their excuses for missing in-person legislative sessions and key committee hearings run from the maybe-forgivable \u2014 childbirth complications and other family or medical emergencies, Middle East deployment \u2014 to the outrageous; advanced age (retire if you can\u2019t show up for work!) and sheer indifference, a slap in the face to hard-working New Yorkers footing the bill.<\/p>\n Here in the five boroughs, City Councilman Chi Oss\u00e9 (D-Brooklyn) skips work to busily play activist \u2014 blowing off Stated Meetings and key committee hearings<\/a> to join an anti-Israel protest at the United Nations and to trek upstate<\/a> for to join the socialist campaign for a public takeover of utility companies.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Oss\u00e9 prefers performative grandstanding to the drudgework of serving his constituents. <\/p>\n Showing up to do the job you were elected to do, and get paid handsomely to perform, isn\u2019t optional \u2014 it\u2019s a \u201ccore responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Albany and City Hall have a clear duty to scrap the remote-voting free pass, retire geriatric pols no longer up to the work, and boot lightweight freeloaders like Chi Oss\u00e9 straight to the curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York taxpayers are getting flat-out robbed by lazy, overpaid politicians who can\u2019t even be bothered to show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,2494,301,1091,304,11538,9,24,55,54,56,299],"class_list":["post-380282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-chi-osse","tag-city-council","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-editorial","tag-legislature","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}