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Mark Cunningham, Editorial Page EditorMartyr for Badgered Bars:
A Defiant Owner’s Arrest
The Issue: The raid on a Staten Island bar that kept
serving patrons despite shutdown orders.Shame on the governor
and the mayor: A restau-
rant owner was cuffed
and arrested for serving
patrons here on Staten
Island (“Defiant SI bar
raided,” Dec. 2).
The owner of Mac’s
Public House has been
summoned and his liquor
license revoked, and now
he’s handcuffed and
taken away.
I am amazed: Felons,
thugs and the like get to
walk, but a man trying to
make a living by defying
the almighty here in
NYC is arrested. As a US
Navy vet, I am appalled
at the treatment of hard-
working, taxpaying citi-
zens.
My father fought
against tyranny in World
War II. I’ll bet he is turn-
ing in his grave. Welcome
to socialism, New York
City. Lee Heydolph
Staten IslandWhy arrest hard-work-
ing people who are try-
ing to make a living, like
Danny Presti?
Why not arrest the
people who are destroy-
ing and preventing New
Yorkers from making a
living with their high
taxes, regulations, insane
and dangerous bicycle
lanes and defunding thepolice while crime is
through the roof?
Put the blame where it
belongs — on Gov. Cuomo
and Mayor de Blasio.
Anton Loew
ManhattanThose guys in Staten Is-
land were doing exactly
what’s needed in New
York City and across the
country in rejecting the
arbitrary rules instituted
on whims by tyrannical
politicians.
I urge every storefront
business to become “au-
tonomous zones” like
Mac’s Public House. Ev-
ery single business has to
make this hard for politi-cians to control them.
They never do anything
hard. They like going
after easy targets.
Now it’s our time to
fight back. Everyone has
to fight this to win. It’s
about survival at this
point. The idiots had
their fun. Now it’s time to
take back the city and in-
still normalcy.
Jerry Mallach
Livingston, NJThe NYPD arrested an
owner of a Staten island
bar because he wants to
keep his business going
in an area that is re-
stricted due to the virus.
This owner is a hero to
the business owners
throughout New York be-
cause someone has made
a stand with so many res-
taurants and bars going
out of business.
These restrictions
alone will destroy many
businesses. Our governor
and mayor are suppress-
ing businesses owners’
ability to make a living.
It’s time to wake up poli-
ticians before there’s a
mass protest.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklynin the pathetic attempt
to reverse the will of the
people who legally voted
him out.
Fredrick Beondo
Richmond HillI wish to thank The
Post for steadfast adher-
ence to truth in reporting
Democrats’ mal feasance.
The latest case was
providing details of
Biden’s proposed OMBnominee’s statements
after Trump won in 2016.
This is not about
vengeance but actual
consequences for abus-
ing partisan power.
As a 45-year GOP stal-
wart, my advice to party
leaders is to refuse to
confirm anyone associ-
ated with orchestrating
the Russian-collusion
hoax. Tim O’Neill
Pompano Beach, Fla.The GOP’s Neera Problem
The Issue: Joe Biden’s choice of Neera Tanden to run
the Office of Management and Budget.Oh, dear. The GOP is
wringing its hands about
the nomination of Neera
Tanden by the incoming
Biden administration, as
director for Office of
Management and Budget
(“Nominee Neera a serial
deleter,” Dec. 2).
The “conspiracies” she
touted in 2016 are quite
similar to the ones our
president has promul-
gated over and over in
2020 while losing every
court case his legal team
has brought before
judges, sans actual proof,Danny PrestiAmerica’s oldest continuously published daily newspaperA
mazon is setting hiring records amid
the pandemic — but New Yorkers are
missing out, thanks to leftists like Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Between January and October, the online
retailer added 427,300 employees, reports
The New York Times. That’s an average of
about 1,400 a day — but since July the pace
has been 2,800 new hires daily.
The company’s “hiring like mad,” marvels
labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein. “No
American company has hired so many
workers so quickly.” Indeed, its growth this
year blows away Walmart’s record hiring of
230,000 two decades ago.
Plus, Amazon offered $3,000 signing fees.
And the pay itself isn’t bad: 85 percent of its
810,000 US workers get a minimum of $15 an
hour. The retailer is now handing out $300
bonuses to full-timers as well.
New York City could sure use an employer
like that right now, as the city faces 13.2 per-
cent unemployment, almost twice the na-
tion’s 6.9 percent rate. Yet radicals like AOC
drove Amazon to ditch plans last year for a
new headquarters in Queens — costing thecity 25,000 jobs then, and who knows how
many more during this unprecedented
boom.
Major unions and far-left politicians
united in venom against Gov. Cuomo’s deal
to welcome the company. “A number of state
and local politicians have made it clear that
they oppose our presence and will not work
with us,” Amazon noted dryly.
AOC cheered: “Dedicated, everyday New
Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Ama-
zon’s corporate greed, its worker exploita-
tion and the power of the richest man in the
world,” she crowed on Twitter.
Hmm: How many out-of-work New York-
ers would agree with her about that today?
It brings to mind the 2009 killing of the
project for a mall at the long-vacant Kings-
bridge Armory. The executioner, Bronx
beep Rubén Diáz Jr., huffed that the idea that
“any job is better than no job no longer ap-
plies.” That killed 1,200 job opportunities —
and the armory’s still empty.
If New Yorkers don’t start rejecting this
toxic political culture, the whole city will
wind up vacant.F
ormer Citigroup chief Ray McGuire offi-
cially entered the 2021 mayoral race
Wednesday — offering independence
and good sense that the main candidates
sorely lack.
He’s running because, he says, “every New
Yorker deserves a chance to get back in the
game, and all of New York deserves a mayor
who can bring this city together and solve
this crisis.”
He certainly has the leadership chops on
that latter point, unlike others seeking the
job (not to mention the incumbent): He ran
one of the largest and most complex compa-
nies in the world.
That also gives him a private-sector per-
spective absent from most of his rivals (un-
less you want to count Scott Stringer’s failed
bar). Indeed, McGuire’s connection to eco-
nomic reality would be a huge plus for a city
badly battered by the pandemic — and fac-
ing a major challenge to avoid the perma-
nent loss of office jobs.
In McGuire’s announcement video, pro-ducer Spike Lee says New Yorkers are faced
with “the opportunity to rebuild” and “need
a mayor who can bring us together.”
Lee also vouches for McGuire as a fighter
for racial justice, saying: “He lives that fight
every single day.”
Raised by a single mother in Dayton, Ohio,
McGuire won a full academic scholarship to
the elite Hotchkiss School in Lakeville,
Conn., then moved on to Harvard, where he
also earned postgraduate degrees in both
law and business.
His campaign will be guided by Basil
Smikle, a veteran political operative, cable
TV pundit and one-time executive director
of the Democratic State Committee.
McGuire’s background as one of the na-
tion’s No. 1 executives — and perhaps the
top black business leader in America — and
centrist politics may be what are needed to
counter a local political culture dominated
by special interests and hacks. At the very
least, he’s right about what the city needs
now: “Politics as usual just won’t cut it.”M
ichigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib insists she’s
not an anti-Semite but keeps proving
otherwise.
The latest was her since-deleted retweet,
in recognition of the International Day of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People on
Nov. 29, of an illustration captioned “From
the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
That phrase is an old Palestine Liberation
Organization slogan calling for Israel’s elimi-
nation: “The river to the sea” covers the en-
tire country. (Hamas has adopted it, too.)
Tlaib publicly defended Marc Lamont Hill
after CNN fired him for referencing the slo-
gan in a UN address — so she can’t evenclaim ignorance of what it means.
And she has a long record of this stuff. Last
year, Tlaib and fellow Squad member Rep.
Ilhan Omar both shared a cartoon by an art-
ist infamous for mocking Holocaust victims.
They also support the anti-Israel Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Sadly, most Democratic politicians will
continue to cover for these haters, since the
party’s base has turned decisively against Is-
rael. House Democrats didn’t even have the
gumption to condemn blatantly anti-Semitic
remarks by Omar last year. The real ques-
tion is what it will take for Democratic vot-
ers to start rejecting this hate.AOC’s Job-Killing ‘Win’
Enter Ray McGuire
Tlaib’s Telling Tweet