Liam Neeson Has Urged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio To Give Up His Dream Of Banning Horse-drawn Carriages From Central Park After The Plan Suffered A Major Setback.
The Taken star is a vocal opponent of de Blasio's proposals to remove the animals and drivers from the Manhattan tourist trap and replace them with vintage cars, insisting the move would rob hard-working members of the community of their livelihoods.
However, the mayor's scheme appears to have stalled after he admitted this week (beg17Aug15) that he does not have enough votes from City Council members to implement the proposals, and Neeson is adamant de Blasio needs to accept defeat.
The Irish actor tells the New York Daily News, "Mayor de Blasio is finally listening to the will of New Yorkers and we should commend him for that... Poll after poll shows broad opposition to the misguided horse carriage ban and our voices are finally being heard... Shifting blame to the City Council is not the kind of leadership we need from City Hall. The mayor needs to own up to the fact that he put this idea on the table and will now abandon the ban for good... Let the carriage drivers have some peace and comfort that their jobs and families are safe and secure."
The plan to ban the carriages has received strong support from the animals rights lobby, with stars including Anjelica Huston, Miley Cyrus and Lea Michele all their backing the scheme.
Every working day for the last ten years, insurance salesman Michael MacCauley has gotten the...
The Watergate scandal is one of the biggest political incidents of the 20th century, which...
Faith is a topic Martin Scorsese can't quite shake, courting controversy with complex films like...
A difficult movie to market, this isn't actually the BFG-style fantasy adventure it looks like....
Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Francisco Garrpe (Adam Driver) are Portuguese Jesuit priests...
Conor's life has never been easy, his mother is loving but any other family members...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A trade dispute on the...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The majestic order of honourable,...
With a script by Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace), this thriller has more substance...
With the marriage between Ted (Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) having gone off and...
Ted (Seth MacFarlane) is getting married. The next thing the couple have on their to-do...
Jimmy Conlon is a former hit man for the mob whose life of crime have...
As with the first two films in this dumb but bombastically watchable franchise, writers Luc...