Look who thinks the ‘Shaw-skank’ deserves her pension
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Former Clinton Correctional Facility worker Joyce Mitchell (left) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie Photo: AP/Christopher Sadowski
She’s headed to prison after pleading guilty to providing the tools that allowed two convicted killers to bust free, setting off a three-week manhunt. But when she gets out, Joyce Mitchell will still be able to collect her state pension.
There’s no legal way to deny Mitchell her taxpayer-funded retirement.
But future Joyce Mitchells will be just as lucky — and for that, you can thank Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and his fellow Democrats.
Following angry complaints from their lords and masters, the government-worker unions, Assembly Dems reneged on an agreement to pass a proposed constitutional amendment retroactively stripping corrupt public officials of their pensions.
The unions figured out that the amendment wouldn’t cover just elected and top appointed officials. It could hit any state worker “convicted of a felony related to public office.”
As well it should.
But the unions weren’t about to expose their rank-and-file members to possible pension forfeiture. So they pressed Heastie to instead pass a watered-down version.
Yet, as Assembly GOP leader Brian Kolb notes, Mitchell “used her position in the prison” to help David Sweat and Richard Matt escape Clinton Correctional Facility.
Joyce Mitchell’s actions terrified millions of New Yorkers — who shouldn’t then be forced to subsidize her retirement. But Assembly Democrats are just fine with it.
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