Speaker Paul Ryan announced and visited one of the more publicly praised charter schools in the country, Harlem’s Success Academy. Run by the terrible human being Eva Moscowitz, Ryan and Moscowitz and people like DeVos want a world where they are the top dogs and the rest of the people listen to them. It’s a pretty simple formula, actually. When the news came out that Paul Ryan was going to be in New York, at a school no less, everyone knew it would be a quick in and out affair, since most New Yorkers know that he’s a piece of shit.
“So when Speaker Ryan comes to New York City, we let him know what we think about his agenda, right?” Mark-Viverito said during a panel discussion about the city’s plan to close Rikers Island this afternoon. “And we should be denouncing and holding Eva Moskowitz responsible and accountable for bringing him here to our community.”
Mark-Viverito said she wanted to update the audience with a “quick aside” before answering a question from the moderator, Fordham University Professor Christina Greer. The speaker, whose district covers East Harlem and parts of the Bronx, asserted that Ryan’s policies would particularly harm low-income nonwhite Americans.
Ryan left Harlem a short while ago and I’ll tell you this, the only time Paul Ryan moves faster is when he’s trying to ram through legislation that will hurt poor people of color.