
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Lillian Bonsignore as the new Fire Commissioner. And our response is: please don’t let this be another Kristen Crowley (former LAFD Chief) or another Robert Tucker or Laura Kavanagh.
The FDNY is the greatest Fire Department in the world. It needs proper leadership to continue to protect people and property as quickly and safely as possible. That’s it. We don’t need any more DEI because as we saw in Los Angeles last year DEI caused some Angelino’s to DIE.
At least Mamdani didn’t appoint another dude who’s family comes from money and who’s experience in fire protection is an Assistant District Attorney in Queens and the owner of a security company that he bought and did not start. Scoop Stanton briefly worked for Tucker’s security company. Scoop and all the other ex-gunslingers thought Robert Tucker was a “snot nosed punk.” And instead of serving those who are under his command like Lt. General Hal Moore, Tucker resigned.
Laura Kavanagh was an absolute disaster. She was more concerned with diversity than with staffing or being able to work with senior leadership!
As for Bonsignore, she did run EMS for the Fire Department. She know about manpower, logistics, response times, collective bargaining agreements, equipment, training, incident command and such. But looking at some of Mamdani’s other appointments we wonder if Bonsignore was appointed because of her knowledge and skill set or that she’s a woman who is gay.



