Elizabeth Green has a great story in this morning’s New York Sun on several high-profile departures from Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum’s commission studying the future of mayoral control in the City that Never Sleeps.
Stephen Berger, Herman Badillo, Frank Macchiarola, and Kathryn Wylde all have stepped down, presumably, the article notes, because Gotbaum has been so critical of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein that the commission won’t be fair.
Wylde told the newspaper:
“I realized that because the commission is convened by an elected official who frequently is in a position where she feels she has to speak out on current education issues, that it’s difficult to separate the work of her commission from her advocacy positions.”
Uh, yeah. That is the public advocate’s job. Wasn’t that obvious when they asked these people to serve on the commission?