"What's the population of Cincinnati, Ohio my friend?" Paladino sarcastically asked Chabot, who provided an answer over which Paladino chortled: "Six-hundred thousand! And now you moved to the big city with eight million people. Wow!" Calling Chabot "a newbie," Paladino then lectured him.
"Let me explain something to you. ... You don't know a thing about New York or how we work, OK? How dare you come to this panel with your so-called expertise, and kill car people. ..."
It's easy to laugh off Paladino's antics - because, frankly, she's such an unhinged lunatic who has a prosopagnosic relationship to facts - but there's nothing funny about members of the public being attacked after being invited to offer testimony in good faith on the issues of the day.
Nor do we welcome the notion - a favorite of old-timers on community boards - that there's a requisite number of years that a person must live in a city before he or she can offer valid opinions.
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