NYC deserved Randy Mastro and he deserved better

Attorney Randy Mastro has dropped his bid for his “dream job” as the city’s Corporation Counsel, recognizing that the petty bigots who dominate the City Council were going to vote him down.

“They’d already made up their minds for reasons unrelated to the merits,” Mastro wrote Mayor Eric Adams.

That was obvious from the moment Adams floated Mastro’s name for the city’s top attorney: In April, a majority of the council signed a letter vowing to block him.

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And it became glaringly plain in the all-day farce of a “confirmation hearing” late last month, when imperious members gave him no chance to actually answer questions, lectured him about the evils of the Rudy Giuliani years (when the city actually began a long renaissance) and rhetorically demanded to know how a white man would dare to take a job previously held by a black woman.

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Queens) aptly summed the hearing up as “a politically motivated inquisition.”

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“New Yorkers have a right to expect more from their elected officials,” Mastro wrote.

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He’s right.

Randy Mastro is eminently qualified for the job; several of his harshest critics admitted they’d happily hire him as their own counsel.

But he’d never adopt the hard-progressive views that the council’s majority wants imposed on everything; he’d serve the mayor and the public without ideological blinders.

The City Council is out of control; until it’s reined in by the voters and/or drastic reform of the City Charter, it’ll keep making municipal government ever more dysfunctional — and New York City ever less livable.

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