NEW YORK—Members of City Council’s Republican minority, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg took oath of office at City Hall on Wednesday.
This year, five Republicans were elected—two more than last term. They include Jimmy Oddo and Vinny Ignizio from Staten Island, Eric Ulrich from Howard Beach, and the newly elected Peter Koo from Flushing and Dan Halloran from Bayside.
They asked Bloomberg to swear them in, and he “instantaneously said yes,” congratulating their “historic membership increase.”
“We are gonna work together,” said Bloomberg. “Not as Republicans, not as Independents, not as Democrats, but as New Yorkers.”
