Roosevelt Island Tram exec defends paying PR firm $170K in taxpayer cash to launch anti-tourist smear campaign
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Roosevelt Island Tram exec defends paying PR firm $170K in taxpayer cash to launch anti-tourist smear campaign
His hiring prospects became a total tramwreck!One of the executives who paid to plant stories blaming tourists for Roosevelt Island’s notoriously mismanaged Tramway insists he did it because scores of bad press made finding people willing to work for him nearly impossible, he said through a lawyer.Shelton Haynes of the Roosevelt Island Operating Commission — one of three execs who paid a PR firm nearly $170,000 in taxpayer cash to manipulate local media outlets and plant web posts — said the group’s bad online reputation was a major recruitment headache.“Because of the overwhelming negative press, which was devastating to the ..