"Stephen Cassidy" is the President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Fire Department of New York firefighters.

Cassidy is a vocal critic of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's record of response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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How can it be that in a city with an annual budget of over $55 billion that the lives of firefighters and the citizens we are sworn to protect depends on apparatus built in the 1980s, when Ed Koch was mayor?

There's a conception in the community that the school district has an open enrollment policy.

It's like if you bought a brand new car and five days later you had to bring it back to the shop because it didn't function day after day after day. It makes no sense, you'd find a different manufacturer.