City officials ripped the de Blasio administration and the FDNY for its plans to make a firefighter out of an ex-commissioner’s son who one of them deemed “the poster child of bigotry.”
Joseph Cassano, the son of former FDNY Commissioner Sal Cassano, joined the Fire Academy Monday after serving as an EMT — the same job he quit as a probie in 2013, after racist and anti-Semitic tweets he’d published surfaced.
Several City Council members — including Councilman Andy King, who deemed Cassano the “poster child of bigotry” — called for Cassano to be kicked out of the academy last week, and that chorus was joined Monday by Controller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.
“I don’t want our firefighters working with somebody who clearly has very serious issues with people who are not like him,” Stringer said.