Mr. Avella’s response to my first letter (you can read the first letter in the previous post):
Dear Mr. Cesari:
Judging by the nastiness of your email, I would say that Council Member Weprin and I were on the right side.
Respectfully,
Tony Avella 
And my follow-up:
Dear Mr. Avella:
First, thank you for responding to my previous letter, I apologize for its acerbic tone.
Nevertheless, I would like to know why you and Mr. Weprin are so vehemently opposed to the congestion pricing plan?
Did you ever stop and think that you might be doing something unforgivably bad by convincing people that the congestion pricing plan is a rich v. poor issue? I concede, New York City has got to do something about the mis-distribution of wealth, but opposing this plan is not it. My fear is that the congestion pricing plan is now synonymous with “penalize the poor.” This is thanks to you and your brethren’s strange brand of constituent watchdogism, which may keep you in office, but does little else.
In the end, truthfully, I know very little about what you do. You are probably a good person. But, I genuinely think that you have taken a giant misstep off a very high precipice by not supporting or at least helping to salvage the congestion pricing plan. New York City’s citizens and politicians are not infallible; we are all given to self-importance and need to take a step back sometimes and realize that we don’t have it all figured out. The city’s traffic needs to be fixed, and the congestion pricing plan would have been a great start.
I think you owe the public a solid explanation and some proof of why the congestion pricing plan was so bad. To date, we have been given nothing but speculative talk and opining.
As an aside, the MTA is going to need every dime they can get and you guys really shortchanged them by killing this deal. When they raise fares again or go bankrupt we’ll send you guys the thank you note.
Sincerely,
Medium Happiness
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Personally, I think you let this fucking prick off light. You are nicer than me. Secondly, I think that New Yorkers, while maybe self-important from time to time, take too much crap from upstate folks and their petty inferiority complex. We are the only reason that those slack-jawed yokels even have a freaking town.
Jose, as an upstater I must say they hate the city as much as the city hates them.
Upstate New York is a dump yest our taxes are some of the highest in the country, we can thank the city for that.
Wow. I’ve never seen someone get Mike to transform his tone or his method with so few words.
Mike, I should remind you that it is not the liberal way to provoke discourse with vitriol and personal insults. Leave that to the republican scumbags. You’re better than that!
All of that being said, it is a pretty entertaining exchange.
Medium, I feel I probably offended you, you being from Elmira and all. Not my intention. I do not hate upstate, and i think most New Yorkers don’t hate upstate, but upstate definitely has issues with the city, and they take it out on us with petty BS like this (congestion pricing). As far as taxes go, they get off lighter than Jersey does.
Gideon, what good is the “liberal way” if it keeps republicans in power and brave legislation out of the books? Man up. It was democrats that kept congestion pricing from even being voted on. Besides, is it the “liberal way” to lie about a trip to Bosnia? Look, I’m no conservative, but this shouldn’t be about liberal and conservative. It’s about trying to live in a tolerable world. And that’s why the congestion pricing plan being killed sucks so much.
Yeah when liberals behave like self-serving titheads they deserve some vitriol. I ain’t afraid to go O’Reilly on someone every now and and then.
What category would I fall into if I farted into an airtight envelope and mailed it to your buddy Tony?
You would get a free Medium Happiness fan club sticker/.
I will note that I have promised not to insult Hillary Clinton anymore…at least, not until the DNC names a nominee. That being said, Jose, the Clintons do not abide by typical liberal campaign politics. The name calling, the lying, and the finger pointing were all brought to the battlefield by Ms. Clinton and have, as a result, really harmed the Democratic party.
There are more creative, intelligent, and effective ways to provoke discourse. That’s all I’m saying.
I am a huge fan of dropping trou and leaving the Cleveland steamer. Now THAT is a way to provoke discourse.
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