NY Hasidic group demands right to only religious education

[mattkime]

There's nothing surprising about this. Its the consequence of having a special interest group that votes en masse for a single candidate. If you live near them long enough you see the surprising ways in which the rules don't quite apply to them the way they do to everyone else. When they don't like certain city policies they have a way of changing things through secretive processes.

They're religious zealots who want to wall themselves off except when the state has something to offer, usually money. They're happy to take our money.

NYC politics is a special kind of awful.