Priorities

The New York Marathon has been canceled.  Better late than never, I guess.  Why Bloomberg et al didn't make this decision earlier in the week is a mystery to me, but it's done and, hopefully, resources slated for the runners can be put in place to help people in need.  I suspect Bloomberg didn't anticipate the tremendous backlast he'd receive over his decision to keep the marathon scheduled.  A news report I saw said that huge generators that could power hundreds of homes were brought into the city to power marathon clocks.  What sense would it have made to use generators in this capacity when people in the surrounding area have no power?  Ridiculous!  At least with the cancellation, local government has shown that its priorities are more in line with the serving the public it was elected to serve rather than special interest groups like the New York Road Runners.