Reports: Lhota Thinks It Wasn’t ‘Appropriate’ To Stop Subways For Kittens [View all]

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Republican mayoral candidate and former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota reportedly said this week that he did not think it was “appropriate” to shut down two subway lines for a pair of lost kittens.

Lhota said through a spokeswoman Friday that he did not think it was “appropriate to shut down an entire train line for an extended period of time” because of kittens, according to a New York Daily News report.

But the spokeswoman said Lhota believes the point would be moot, because the decision of whether to stop the subways would be up to the MTA chairman – the position Lhota used to hold – and not the mayor, the newspaper reported.

The remark prompted a headline that read in part, “Lhota would have let kittens get run over,” in the New York Post. Another Post headline called Lhota a “grinch.”

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