Quinn Refuses To Audit Back-Room Decisions Leading Up To St. Vincent's Hospital Closing

The City Council Sneaker Investigates the Very Idea That Wal-Mart Will Open a Store in New York City, but She Won't Investigate Why St. Vincent's Hospital Closed ?

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Wal-Mart a ''union-busting, tax-evading, wage-correcting, job-destroying, civil-rights-abusing, food-stamps-denying multinational corporation.'' But Speaker Quinn won't investigate the shady and rapid closing of St. Vincent's Hospital.

If Comptroller John Liu were to launch an investigation into St. Vincent's Hospital, he could count on the support of a few hundred thousand New Yorkers, who live in the former St. Vincent's catchment area, who have been left with no hospital in the Lower West Side of Manhattan. That area also happens to coïncide with what would be considered Speaker Quinn's strongest base of support, if she were to run for mayor of New York in 2013.

Why is Christine Quinn Protecting Mayor Bloomberg ?

City Council Investigates Snow Removal, But Not CityTime Scandal ?

"The point of the oversight is to make sure this never happens again," said Christine Quinn, NYC Council Speaker said. She was talking about snow removal, not the CityTime scandal.

Because it is softer and easier to blame Mayor Bloomberg about snow removal, the City Council road tour hearings about the post-Christmas blizzard is merely to distract voters from the $700 million in over-billing for the CityTime payroll system.

Why is Speaker Quinn investigating the snow removal, as horrible as that failure was, while, at the same time, trying to sweep CityTime under the rug ? Why is Speaker Quinn protecting Mayor Bloomberg ?