Republican candidates running for city office called on lawmakers to investigate Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McRae, after their more than $ 1.25 billion mental health program The ThriveNYC reported quietly after the Post reported The controversial initiative was renamed – which critics have called a boon – and made it permanent.
“I don’t see how the program Thrive is helping people in my district,” said Constantine Jean-Pierre, a Republican running for City Council, the central psychiatry of Kings County Hospital’s psychiatry unit Represents the district.
“Where are these people? They are not helping,” Jean-Pierre said. Jean-Pierre said he is struggling to find local services for his nephew who is struggling with mental illness.
The ThriveNYC program came under significant fire and has been the subject of several city council hearings over the years – over allegations De Blasio was using the program to boost his wife’s profile, information on its spending and effectiveness and overall goals Questions about the lack of program.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Salva, the leading Republican mayoral candidate, called on City Council President Corey Johnson to release McCare and the mayor a sub-municipality and how $ 1.25 billion in taxpayer funds have been spent over the past five years Gave services, detailed information about it.
A representative for Johnson declined to comment. Questions sent to the mayor’s office and a spokesman for his wife also did not immediately respond.
De Blasio quietly signed an executive order to move the program to City Hall on Wednesday and created the Office of Community Mental Health to build it. The office has a single director, Susan Herman, who led ThriveNYC.
“In the streets we call that trickery – when you have a bad product, you have a bad business, you have a bad restaurant, you have a bad nightclub, you’re still in the same premises. Let’s work when you just change the name. But it’s still a bad nightclub, bad restaurant, bad product.
Salwa also called for Johnson to hold an emergency session to undo the executive order of the mayor of ThriveNYC within City Hall.
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