You’re a Disgrace!
Phil Orenstein • December 2, 2009 • Uncategorized
Finally someone had the guts to speak up to the uncivil New York City Councilman Charles Barron. Congratulations to CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld putting the foul-mouthed Councilman in his place.
This occurred during the formal 9/11 groundbreaking ceremonies for CUNY’s new Fiterman Hall. Barron made a scene objecting that he wasn’t sitting up front with the other officials and asked to speak ahead of schedule. He disrupted the solemnity of the celebration saying “I don’t like disrespect.” Wiesenfeld uttered “you’re a disgrace” from his front row seat and a shouting match ensued in which Barron stepped away from the podium and postured for a fight.
Wiesenfeld said to the News:
This individual has no civility. He has no personal decency. All of us can have a persecution complex. My parents, my wife’s parents were in concentration camps, I’m sure his ancestors were subject to slavery, but that is no excuse for his ill-fitting conduct in public, the way he deals with other public officials.
A former Black Panther, well known for his anti-American and anti-Israel activism, Barron recently led a convoy to Gaza delivering financial support and aid to terrorist group, Hamas and advocating the destruction of the State of Israel. See the video of this disgraceful public official who belongs in a mental facility, not the prestigious City Council or the Higher Education Committee where regrettably he now sits. Wiesenfeld is to be commended as a hero for taking off the kid gloves and treating Barron as the juvenile bully that he is.
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Bravo, Jeff, and thanks, Phil, for circulating word of this contretemps – revealing, as you say, of Barron’s disgraceful mindset.
But don’t forget another important aspect of this incident that should disturb New York taxpayers : It concerns the city’s decision to build a $259 million CUNY edifice which the university fought long and acrimoniously (with Barron’s help)to bring about – when there was no need for a new building at all, because the old one (damaged in the 9/11 attacks) reportedly could have been repaired.
It is long overdue for decent people to end the political careers of Barron’s likes. But the other lesson of this row is, once again to take up the wise old mantra, “follow the money.”
I am surprised that he isn’t in jail. This is Al Sharpton on steroids. I did a little background check on him and quite frankly, as long as someone supports him, he will only continue to behave as a radical, racist with violent tendancies. Shame on the voter.
Thanks Phil for bringing this forward.