Reports: Lhota Thinks It Wasn’t ‘Appropriate’ To Stop Subways For Kittens

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Republican mayoral candidate and former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota reportedly said this week that he did not think it was “appropriate” to shut down two subway lines for a pair of lost kittens.

Lhota said through a spokeswoman Friday that he did not think it was “appropriate to shut down an entire train line for an extended period of time” because of kittens, according to a New York Daily News report.

But the spokeswoman said Lhota believes the point would be moot, because the decision of whether to stop the subways would be up to the MTA chairman – the position Lhota used to hold – and not the mayor, the newspaper reported.

The remark prompted a headline that read in part, “Lhota would have let kittens get run over,” in the New York Post. Another Post headline called Lhota a “grinch.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/31/reports-lhota-says-subways-shouldnt-have-been-stopped-for-kittens/

[Tanuki]

1. Look how cute they are!

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He should ask Bill Frist how being called a cat killer works out politically.

[hrmjustin]

2. Bill Frist?

[Tanuki]

4. Memory Lane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist

..."While he was a medical school student in the 1970s, Frist performed fatal medical experiments and vivisection on shelter cats while researching the use of drugs on the mitral valve. By his own account, Frist improperly obtained these cats from Boston animal shelters, falsely telling shelter staff he was adopting the cats as pets.[53] In his book, Frist asserted that he succumbed to the pressure to succeed in a highly competitive medical school.

Frist's treatment of cats first became controversial in 1994, in his first Senate campaign, when the opposing camp in the Republican primary called him a cat-killer. The matter again created public controversy in 2002, after mention in a Boston Globe profile, published after his election as Senate majority leader.[54][55]..."

[hrmjustin]

6. What a horrible individual. Should have went to jail for that.

[Happyhippychick]

3. What a grump.

[hrmjustin]

5. Typical republican! Think about money before lives.