Emily Gallagher’s shoplifting protection: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher’s declare that shoplifters have a “biological need” to steal.
Insanity guidelines in New York. State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has hit a new low for Democrats (“DSA idea is ‘steal’ly bad,” Aug. 16).
Is inciting theft not a crime? Arrest her.
It’s devastating for a neighborhood to have shops close. The people endure, and the employees lose their jobs. Corporate doesn’t endure.
A organic need to steal toothpaste and cleaning soap opens the door to a need to steal a TV or a coat. Maybe even a organic need to shoot somebody.
Gallagher must be sanctioned. I’m ashamed New York has put such a disgusting girl in workplace. Anarchy is going on. Wake up!
Maureen Sharkey
Brooklyn
Allowing shoplifting will trigger shops to close attributable to financial losses. This will allow the federal government to take over. Socialist mission achieved.
Jackie Biaggi
The Bronx
Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher might very properly be the dumbest particular person ever elected to serve in public workplace.
She advocates that in some circumstances it’s justified to shoplift. I ponder if she would really feel the identical manner if she needed to earn a dwelling working in retail somewhat than being paid by New York state taxpayers.
New Yorkers who supported and elected this particular person bought what they deserve: an fool.
Jim Kilduff
Rockville Centre
Gallagher is a consumer, a taker and a hypocrite. She earns over $142,000 in wage, but has the gall to launch a GoFundMe for her cat’s emergency surgical procedure? Did she use GoFundMe to pay for the varied tattoos she overtly sports activities?
This is a lawmaker who thinks stealing cleaning soap and toothpaste must be allowed. No surprise so many are fleeing New York. It is disgraceful.
Patricia Keane
Eastport
Now we’ve Gallagher imparting her knowledge for all New Yorkers to share: Rip off shops for toiletries and different objects she sees as organic wants. Does she actually suppose company shops are going to soak up the price of this stuff? They received’t. Costs would be the duty of paying clients.
Gallagher and her comrades can be higher off addressing a failed academic system, crime in minority neighborhoods, medicine and more.
Yakov Moshe
Brooklyn
A rustic ruled by law is unacceptable to DSA operatives. Therefore, it should be eradicated in phases. They’ve already began the method.
Handcuff, defund or remove law enforcement. Add a rotating-door judicial system with soft-on-crime insurance policies.
Next: Don’t take into account stealing requirements to be a crime — and it isn’t restricted to simply toiletries.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
Assemblywoman Gallagher: If you’re dedicated to this trigger, I respectfully counsel that you simply take into account using personal funds to buy and distribute this stuff immediately, somewhat than pursuing your present legislative or coverage method.
Alfred Bonnabel
Manhattan
There is definitely an assemblywoman who believes people who shoplift have a organic need to take action, and subsequently shoplifting must be legal.
Why ought to firms make money? I want to see people clarify how one can vote for somebody who says this. How can we elect people like this, with these sorts of concepts?
Mindy Rader
New City
How do people like Gallagher get elected to important positions?
She is a member of the Assembly, getting paid handsomely for part-time work. If she thinks stealing from pharmacies and different shops is true, possibly she ought to checklist her tackle so that somebody can steal one thing that they need from her.
Maybe an IQ check must be required to vote. It’s time to take out the trash from the Assembly.
Sylvia Kane
Brooklyn
Hey, loopy girl, right here is an concept: If you wish to brush your tooth, get a job and buy toothpaste. Does Gallagher need the federal government to come back to people’s properties and put deodorant beneath their armpits for them?
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
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