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Subject: Picking Rick Cotton
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Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Subject: Picking Rick Cotton
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Dear Rick,
I read an upsetting article in The Times this morning. Thanks Anusha! Bayya for the hard journalism.
For my readers briefly: there's a cool ass park for kids up in Washington Heights that is closed because...
BECAUSE LAZY UNCARING MEN WON'T GET OFF THEIR ASS.
Rick:
UNLOCK THE FUCKIN' GATE. TODAY.
To my voters: this is the kind of government garbage that makes people want to have a revolution. There's a perfectly awesome playground sitting unused and dreamed at by thousands of kids and IT'S BEEN YEARS THAT THOSE FUCKING JACKASSES AT THE PORT AUTHORITY HAVE LET IT BE LIKE THAT.
The person who had the gumption to do something about that died.
"Ms. Poggi was able to get the Port Authority to provide the $400,000 needed for the park. That's nearly $900,000 in today's dollars. "While she was incredibly sweet and engaging, she was like a pit bull with her teeth sunk into the calf of your leg," Ms. Jaworek said.
Ms. Ritter said, "She shamed everybody into doing the right thing.""
So I'll do something about it. Just read what this bullshit spouting loser said when asked for comment:
"Seth Stein, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the bridge and the surrounding land, said in a statement that the agency had been "hard at work identifying an organization that can safely and efficiently operate this playground so it can reopen."
HARD AT WORK MY FUCKIN' ASS. HARD AT WORK GETS SOMETHING DONE TODAY.
Get it done today.
The responses were vague. "It didn't address any options," Ms. Shaner said after rereading an email she and Ms. Jaworek had received from a Port Authority representative in 2023. A line from the three-sentence message read, "We haven't found another organization yet, but I'll let you know as soon as that happens."
"'We can't help you,' is really what it said," Ms. Shaner said.
I can help you Arlene.
Rick if you don't open that fucking park and do whatever paperwork bullshit you have to do (later) I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU A SPECIAL NON-VIOLENT AND LEGAL PROJECT 'A MINE.
Ladies please "attack" yourselves now that I have "blown open the barbed wire".
"It's just waiting there," she said. "It's waiting for somebody to come in and use it. And we can't seem to get that done."
I am your gallant Congressman.
--Wolf Alexander (i) NY-10 2026