NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- City Council Speaker Corey Johnson slammed Con Edison Wednesday during a hearing on the July 13 blackout that left parts of Manhattan without power for five hours.
"If I was you, I would be saying, 'I am so f******* sorry for what happened! This is embarrassing! This is terrible!,'" Johnson said.
He continued, "You had hundreds of people stuck in elevators across the city, thousands of businesses affected. Tens of millions of dollars lost, and I don't hear that level of apology from Con Edison from the day it happened until today. You should be saying, 'Damn, we are sorry! We screwed up!'"
Con Ed president Tim Cawley failed to show up for the hearing, which did not sit well with Johnson, who said that the responses of the officials who did attend was "laughable" and "technical gobbledygook."
