The Manhattan DA is Cyrus Vance Jr., son of Jimmy Carter Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Jr has come under fire for refusing to prosecute Weinstein and there is some evidence that his office received campaign donations from high profile people he refused to prosecute.
Vance is about as old school “NY Democrat machine politics” as it gets. He’s pretty much a modern Tamminy Hall. If he’s DA you will never see any prosecutions for politically-connected corruption — at least not as long as the campaign donations are rolling in. By the way, I am not implying that Republicans are any better or worse — Vance is just in the dominant party of NYC politics — the problem is the “machine” not the specific flavor of that machine. If you are in New York, stop voting for Vance and other stuff like him. There is a lot of talk about “resisting Trump,” but really I have yet to see any equivalent outrage over the guys right in your neighborhood that are essentially enabling theft and corruption. Most New Yorkers can spit fire over Trump, but seem to be asleep when it comes to this ground level corruption. Tip O’Neil once said “All politics is local,” — perhaps voters should act like it and start holding local politicians’ feet to the fire. In a city packed full of lawyers, Cyrus Vance is the best y’all could do? For sure national politics matters, but the real bleeding happens on the street: on school boards, the DA’s office, City Hall, in the boroughs.. NYC is a great city — despite the politicians New Yorkers insist on re-electing.
Vance is about as old school “NY Democrat machine politics” as it gets. He’s pretty much a modern Tamminy Hall. If he’s DA you will never see any prosecutions for politically-connected corruption — at least not as long as the campaign donations are rolling in. By the way, I am not implying that Republicans are any better or worse — Vance is just in the dominant party of NYC politics — the problem is the “machine” not the specific flavor of that machine. If you are in New York, stop voting for Vance and other stuff like him. There is a lot of talk about “resisting Trump,” but really I have yet to see any equivalent outrage over the guys right in your neighborhood that are essentially enabling theft and corruption. Most New Yorkers can spit fire over Trump, but seem to be asleep when it comes to this ground level corruption. Tip O’Neil once said “All politics is local,” — perhaps voters should act like it and start holding local politicians’ feet to the fire. In a city packed full of lawyers, Cyrus Vance is the best y’all could do? For sure national politics matters, but the real bleeding happens on the street: on school boards, the DA’s office, City Hall, in the boroughs.. NYC is a great city — despite the politicians New Yorkers insist on re-electing.