The unedited words that got Bloomberg in trouble:
I think Kevin Burke deserves a thanks from this City. He’s worked as hard as he can every single day since then, as has everybody at Con Ed. And it’s easy to go criticize but once this happened, Con Ed has been doing everything they can to bring it back and I don’t think that I could have gone in and done any better. We’ll later on take a look and see whether or not you could have done it better. But at the moment, we have to live with what Con Ed’s doing. They have been open, they’ve been responsive, they’ve been working well with the City. They’ve accepted our help every time. We can’t ask for anything else. It’s not our network. It’s their company, their network, and they’ve got to go in and fix that and going after the CEO just because somebody wants to have somebody to blame doesn’t make a lot of sense. We want Con Ed to stay together and to work together and to continue to provide what they basically do in the City—a good level of service for our energy needs.
I imagine plenty of subway riders were annoyed a his support for Kevin Burke, too.
UPDATE: Bloomberg said today a report on what went wrong and why will be completed Aug. 2.
-- Chuck Bennett
