The City section of Sunday’s NY Times had an article about Jose Adames, who has the crazy idea that he is really Mayor of New York.
The story treats Adames as a harmless eccentric but does point out that he is constantly violating the law by taping or pasting fliers on light poles and other places.
The 2 relevant paragraphs are:
Mr. Collins confronted Mr. Adames at a board meeting in February. “I stood up,” he recalled, “and I said to him, ‘I have a question: Will you stop littering the community with your fliers?’ People in the audience applauded. He said, ‘No.’ ”
Kathy Dawkins, a spokeswoman for the Department of Sanitation, said Mr. Adames had never been fined because his posters do not provide his address or telephone number, which the department requires to issue a summons.
If what Ms. Dawkins says is true about the law (and at least one former NY City Councilmember has told me she isn’t) then shouldn’t the law be changed? Is there nothing the City can do about someone who admits in public he is violating the law?