[From article]
Apparently unaware that de Blasio was — at that very moment — calling NYPD officers racist for bothering with such “a minor offense” as selling untaxed cigarettes, the Law Department produced a triumphant press release, crowing about the city’s suing people in other states for violating New York’s tobacco laws.
Lawyers: Hey, Mayor — here’s that press release about the cigarette tax lawsuit!
De Blasio: Shhhh! I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Lawyers: You know — the cigarette tax case. The one we’ve been working on so hard.
De Blasio: Who are you?
City Hall promptly buried the press release in a casket in the middle of the Hudson River.
[. . .]
The only time normal people get annoyed at cops is precisely for these revenue-collection laws — parking tickets, moving violations, driving without a seatbelt, selling untaxed cigarettes, jaywalking and so on. So it was quite brilliant of the cops to zero in on the laws that exist just because Democrats want the money.
At least among people who generally like cops, the NYPD has made itself spectacularly popular.
http://humanevents.com/2015/01/07/dying-for-a-cigarette-in-new-york/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Dying for a cigarette in New York
Human Events
By: Ann Coulter
1/7/2015 06:46 PM
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