Mayor Pimps Congestion Pricing At Memorial Day Parade; Flack Jacket Fits!

Apparently Hizzoner really isn’t running for president:

U.S. troops will be fighting in vain if New Yorkers aren’t healthy enough to enjoy the freedoms they are defending, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday — making a tenuous Memorial Day link between the war and his congestion pricing plan.

After marching in the Laurelton Memorial Day Parade, Bloomberg made a push for his plan, calling it a “win, win, win, for everybody.”

“Our soldiers are fighting so that we have our freedoms. Unless you have good health, you’re not going to be around to enjoy them,” Bloomberg said.

“The pollution that’s going into the air today is causing our kids in a lot of neighborhoods in New York City to have four times the national asthma rate.”

The mayor enlisted a group of environmental activists to buttress his case and emphasized that the city’s air is simply not good enough.

“It is not healthy for you; it’s not healthy for our children yet to be born, or our children who are here today.

“We have to do something to reduce the pollution in the air and the only solution really is mass transit and the only place money is going to come for mass transit is from something like congestion pricing,” Bloomberg said.