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An Oct. 4 editorial takes New York City firefighters to task because various groups seek their opinion and support on matters from the election to the boondoggle building of a West Side stadium. You imply that firefighters lack the intellect or validity to be as much a part of the decision-making process as others. Shame on you for stereotyping.
The city's bad budget management affected all of us and our families in the fiscal crisis of the 1970's. Now we keep hearing the mayor say the city doesn't have the money to keep firehouses open or give firefighters fair raises, yet it and the state have $600 million to build a football stadium. City Hall's priorities seem to be leading us back to that same fiscally imprudent road traveled in the 1970's.
Firefighters are in favor of expansion of the Javits Center and a sensible redevelopment of the West Side, but to spend more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer money to build a football stadium as a legacy to the Bloomberg administration is not the right priority. This union and its members will continue to call them as we see them.
Stephen J. Cassidy
President
Uniformed Firefighters Assn.
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