City Hall fails with order for NYC migrant crisis propaganda
Looks like somebody at City Hall took the boss’ demand way too literally: With Mayor Eric Adams in Israel on Monday, out to nearly two dozen city agencies went an order to . . . post on official social-media accounts a one-minute video showcasing municipal workers’ efforts to help migrants apply for asylum.
Get it up it by 11 a.m. Tuesday, ran the order — and let the Mayor’s Office know the names of the workers who posted it and every platform you shared it on.
And beware, warned the directive: Failures would be noted.
Achtung, baby.
What Hizzoner wanted, he got — though how many people view every video on, say, the Correction Department’s X (ex-Twitter) account is another question.
Fine: With a lawyer for Gov. Kathy Hochul slamming the city’s work in helping migrants get papers and state Attorney General Tish James probing a nonprofit hired to help out, the mayor surely feels attacked on all sides.
But ham-handed efforts to use taxpayer resources for we’re-doing-a-great-job propaganda won’t do much good, especially when the order inevitably leaks (first to Gothamist) and the video’s warm “everyone is here just to help these families” talk stands in stark contrast to City Hall’s we’re taking names approach to its own workforce.
More voters will probably end up reading about the order than viewing the video. City Hall staff: Your job is to help the mayor succeed, not mindlessly jump to embarrass him.
