Council Speaker Christine Quinn is the most honest person Mayor Bloomberg knows. The mayor said so himself earlier this month when Quinn found herself in hot water thanks to a federal-city probe into a hide-the-money scheme involving council slush funds.
But Quinn shouldn’t get too excited.
Mike “I’m not a politician” Bloomberg said the exact same thing about State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno earlier this year when the Albany big was facing his own investigative troubles.
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And he said it about another Republican political ally, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, when Molinaro’s dealings with a mobster surfaced in 2005.
Here’s the battle of the quotes: